(she, they, he)
Cremona, April 1st 1991 ・INFJ-T ・☉ Aries, ↑ Cancer, ☽ Scorpio
After classical studies, I explored photography for several years, initially at Spazio Labò, where I completed the course with a workshop led by Michael Ackerman at the Pratt Institute in New York. I continued my studies at Fondazione Fotografia Modena (now Fotografia Modena Arti Visive), where I won a scholarship for, and in 2018, an artist residency at the Geidai University of Fine Arts in Tokyo, where I’ve been tutored by Tokihiro Sāto. I further explored photographic bookmaking through several workshops with Witty Books in Turin and Yogurt Magazine in Rome.
Afterwards, I enrolled in an MA in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology to gain tools to support my research and understand social phenomena related to contemporary issues. I graduated with top honours, presenting a thesis in Medical Anthropology about the role of facilitators or guides in personal support contexts using psilocybin in the Netherlands, which is legal in truffle form. I have also written about psychedelia for Vice and memecult, curating a dedicated column for the latter.
As a queer and transfeminist person, I am particularly interested in gender studies, especially feminism and sexuality, the dynamics related to the crisis of capitalism, the climate emergency, and psychedelics.
Currently, I’m working as a photographer, digital retoucher, and street host for Nottambula, a project for the Night Plan of the Municipality of Bologna aimed at creating a more livable and safer city for everyone, focusing on harm reduction, conflict management, and more. In the meantime, I’m into the potential of psychedelic substances and experiences from a transfeminist perspective, aiming to protect native knowledge and oppose the commercialization of these insights and substances, preparing a PhD proposal.
My research explores the unknown, especially new ways of thinking about the future, combining the ethnographic tools of anthropological research with photography, contemplating new ways of studying the world and living on this planet.
2018/2024: MA in Medical Anthropology with honours, Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, University of Bologna
2016/2018: Master on contemporary imagery, Scholarship, FMAV, Modena
2015/2016: Annual photography course at Spazio Labò, Bologna
2011/2015: BA in Semiotics at DAMS, Drama, Arts and Music Studies, University of Bologna
✐ selected workshop
2024: Rustling Papers, Masterclass with Mattia Micheli, Scholarship, Sugar Paper, Modena
2024: Masterclass with Marina Caneve, Scholarship, FMAV, Modena
2019: Workshop with Tommaso Parrillo, Witty Books, Libri Finti Clandestini, JEST, Turin
2018: Lab, “Giorni Sospesi”, Yogurt Magazine, Rome
2016: Workshop with Michael Ackerman, PhotoWorkshop New York, Pratt Institute, New York
since 2024 street host for Nottambula
since 2021: educator at Spazio Labò, Bologna
teaching digital retouching and post-production (Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge) and InDesign
2023: photographer at YOOX NET-A-PORTER, Bologna
2021-2023: collaboration with the creative agency Garage Raw, mainly for postproduction and digital retouching, but also for content creation
2019-2021: educator at Spazio Labò, Bologna
teaching digital retouching and post-production (Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge) and InDesign
2025: Circuito OFF, Narnimmaginaria, Narni, Italy
2025: FRESH EYES x Hungry Eye Fair, GUP Magazine, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2025: Il labirinto, Artisti Cremonesi, Labirinto Edolavi, Cremona, Italy
2025: INSIGHT Foto Festival, Varese, Italy
2021: Mojo, publication’s collective exhibition curated by Yogurt Magazine,
Charta Festival, Rome
2019: Del Sublime, PoverArte Festival, Ateliersi, Bologna
2019: Who knows what’s going on in the ladies' parlour! Chapter II,
Magazzini Fotografici, Naples
2018: Madame Gerard, collective exhibition, curated by Filippo Maggia, MATA, Modena
2018: Platform 8 1/2, Geidai University of Fine Arts, Tokyo
2018: SOMA, during Artefiera, Bologna
2017: Collective Mid-Term exhibition curated by Filippo Maggia in occasion of the conclusion of the first year of FMAV master, Foro Boario, Modena
✶ online publication and others✶
ZIVNE, Zone Mag
Mushroom People n. 2, Broccoli Magazine
Spores, Broccoli Magazine
Mojo, Yogurt Flavours, Yogurt Magazine
Giorni Sospesi, anthology by Yogurt Magazine
Del Sublime, selfpublished during Dummy Photobook by Chippendale Studio with
Luca Panaro
Madame Gerard, catalog, FMAV
Le Monde - L’Époque, Vice Italia, Perimetro, Aurora Fotografi, Frizzifrizzi, ISO400, Casa di Ringhiera, Vanni Pandolfi bestselected
2025: FRESH EYES x Hungry Eye talent 2025, shortlist
2025: Urbanautica Institute Awards 2025, shortlist
2025: 7 Chakras Festival, Tuscania, Viterbo, Italy
2018: Geidai University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2018: Festival diecixdieci, Collective diecixdieci, Gonzaga, Mantova, Italy
2023: Essentia Festival, Parco del Pollino, Cosenza, Italy
2022: Dentro e Controcultura, BUGZine, Granata Project, Bologna, Italy