i am an artist and educator working across photography, writing and sculpture, with a focus on regenerative practices and co-authorship with more-than-human agents. starting from an interest ecology and critical studies, i develop a biocentric practice where photography is used to look-at and sit-within interspecies relationships and more-than-human life in times of extinctions, working through ecological grief, forming multi-species alliances and nurturing relationships based on principles of kinship and shared health. working with darkroom chemistry made with locally foraged plants, scavenged iron and waste products, reclaiming silver from spent chemistry and applying a circular economy between the darkroom and the territory through appropriate waste disposal processes, that allow for chemical waste to be composted and used as fertiliser, i approaches the practice of photography as a process of contaminations and encounters, trying to learn how to better live and die together. 

if you are looking for one2one support to develop your practice, are interested in commissioning me a text, would like to have full access to one of my past essays, or just want to say Hello, you can contact me here —

benedettacasagrande@proton.me

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cyber-letters archive:

6. Solo show: Out of the stump rot, something

5. The swamps, the trunks, the stumps: spring is coming

4. Solo show: All things laid dormant, Triennale Milano

3. Living in a World of Wounds: Autumn News 

2. On Becoming-With: June News

1. A Letter, A Site of Encounter: Spring News

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read or listen

Futures Interview w/ Taco Hidde Bakker

Nearest Truth Podcast Ep. 409: Benedetta Casagrande

Radio Raheem, Triennale Radio Show w/ Benedetta Casagrande & Daniele De Luigi

ATP Diary interview / Sara Benaglia and Mauro Zanchi

PhMuseum, An Incomplete Guide To Ecological Thinking in Photographic Practices | Vol.1

All things laid dormant book review by Blake Andrews, Collector Daily

All things laid dormant book review by Camilla Marrese, PhMuseum

Zero EU interview w/ Irene Caravita

 news

09.04 - 15.05, 2026
Metamorphosis | (After) All things laid dormant
solo show, Almanac Projects, Turin (IT)

2026/2027,
Note di Sguardi, 
public billboarding project in Cervia, Bologna and Berlin

04.10 - 12.10, 2025
Metamorphosis, Fotograf Zone Festival 2025 - Talk Together, Annual Futures Exhibition, Prague (CZ)

16.09.2025 - 31.07.2026
Paysages du silence,
L’Imagerie Centre d’Arte, Lannion (FR)

28.06.2025 - 06.2026
Out of the stump rot, something
solo show, Laboratorio di Cultura Fotografica, Città della Pieve (IT)

18.06 - 19.09, 2025
Paths to the Future - the collection of Giovane Fotografia Italiana, Italian Institute of Culture, Stockholm (SE)

31.01 - 16.03, 2025
All things laid dormant,
solo show, Triennale Milano (IT)

30.11 - 15.12, 2024
XIII° Edition of the Francesco Fabbri
Prize for Contemporary Arts, Villa Brandolino, Pieve di Soligo (IT)

09.09 - 08.10, 2024
CLOSER, PhMuseum Days, Bologna (IT)

26.04 - 09.06, 2024
Contaminazioni, Giovane Fotografia Italiana | Premio Luigi Ghirri #11, Palazzo dei Musei, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia (IT)

18.10.2023 - ongoing
Fotografia alla Carriera. Omaggio della fotografia italiana ai maestri del Compasso d’Oro, ADI Design Museum, Milan (IT)