“THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE”

Simona Ghizzoni, born in 1977, is a photographer and visual artist working on independent long term projects. Most of her work stems from personal issues, which she processes and interprets through photography and video. Mainly known for her work on eating disorders, Odd Days, and her self-portraits series Rayuela addressing the ambivalent relationship between man and nature, Ghizzoni blurs the lines between documentary and autobiography. Her work has received several prizes, such as World Press Photo, POYi Pictures of theYear international, The Aftermath Project, Burn Magazine EPG, Sony WPO World Photography Organisation, among others. Her photographs have been been widely presented in one-person and collective exhibitions including the at the Nobel Peace Centre, Paris Photo, PhotoEspana, Auditorium di Roma and the Athens Photography Museum.

SIMONA GHIZZONI (WEBSITE)

Alessandra Capodacqua was born in Naples and lives and works in Florence. She is a photographer, a curator and a teacher of photography at NYU Florence and SACI (Studio Arts College International). She is also a founding member of the school of photography Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy, where she held the position of vice president until 2016. As a curator, Alessandra has developed exhibitions of photography and has participated to the creation of festivals of photography in Italy and abroad. She is regularly invited as portfolio reviewer and as juror for international photo awards and prizes. Her photographs have been shown nationally and internationally and are in private and public collections, including the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Her most recent appointment as a curator and an organizer is focused on the Collezione Donata Pizzi, a private photography collection that includes the works of more than 70 Italian women photographers and artists.

ALESSANDRA CAPODACQUA (WEBSITE)

Educated in Italy, in Political Science at Milano Università degli Studi, Donata Pizzi furthered her studies at John Cass School of Arts in London and West Surrey College of Art and Design, UK. Starting in 1980 Pizzi worked with photography and photographers as an archivist and picture editor for magazines and publishers; she was the head of the Roman branch of The Image Bank, later known as Getty Images. Subsequently she pursued a career as a free-lance photographer, working for international magazines and major Italian companies, producing books and exhibitions. Since 2014 she has built up a unique ongoing collection of Italian women photographers. Collezione Donata Pizzi has recently been shown at the Milano Triennale in 2016–17, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome in 2018, and Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia in 2019.

COLLEZIONE DONATA PIZZI (WEBSITE)