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research through documentary photography
ASSIGNMENTS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMPAIGNS.
2025_Dal Mare a Roma. Non poteva che accadere qui
Photographic research on the relationship between the Tiber River and the geological structure of Rome, developed as a territorial reading of the city. The project was presented at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and carried out within the activities of Laboratory 050 for the City of Rome.
2023 – It Could Be a Paradise, Again – Mar Menor
A photographic research project on the landscape of the Mar Menor lagoon (Spain), investigating the relationships between ecological crisis, anthropogenic pressure, and the legal recognition of the rights of nature.
2022 – Paisajes Trasladados. The Yesa Dam
Research on inland areas of Aragón (Spain), focusing on rural and infrastructural landscape transformations linked to the Yesa dam and depopulation processes.
2022–2025 – Stadtwildnis, a theater of events. Vienna, Austria x VLAY STREERUWITZ Architecture and Planning.
An urban development, a building site and the landscape that was already there. The Freie Mitte / Nordbahnhof is an urban and landscape project by the architecture and planning firm Vlay-Streeruwitz. It is a new 11ha model public space in the heart of the city of Vienna. The public park will be at the centre of a masterplan with residences, commercial spaces and offices. Built on a former railway area that was abandoned for many years and in which the lush, rich vegetation is being shaped as an informal, yet fully functional space. The vegetation of the new park will remain spontaneous and autochthonous, it will not be designed and planned in the most of the supporting infrastructure, it will be allowed to grow and change according to its own rules.
2021 – Habit.a – Sustainable Landscapes
Ten architectures – ten territories – ten perspectives on territorial sustainability in the mountainous and rural regions of the Southern Alps.
2019 – L’altra Italia. A visual account of the country’s inland areas
Photographic research on Italian inland areas, focusing on the seismic crater of central Italy and the Belice Valley. The project contributed to the Italian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) and was published in the volume of the same title by Johan & Levi.
2019 – Across the Alps
A photographic documentation project on contemporary transformations of the Alpine landscape, with particular attention to the Eastern Alps and the border territories between Italy, Austria, and Slovenia.
2019 – SeiMilano. The Story of a Metamorphosis.
The Masterplan on the Outskirts of Milan
2018–2020 – Hiding Landscape. Building Landscape
A documentary photography and territorial research project on Madrid’s urban landscape, developed along the M45 motorway axis as a critical reading of transformations linked to urban planning policies and the Spanish Urban Agenda. The work observes industrial and post-industrial landscapes and transitional areas between the natural and the artificial.
Three images from the project received the Photography Award at the 2021 Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. Commissioned by the Madrid City Council, in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Spain).
