i take pictures, i get close to things to take pictures but never quite close enough, i touch stuff and test consistencies and textures, i look for gaps, i stand in the darkroom looking at red-lit images, watch them appear in the development liquid (it always looks to me like black magic no matter how long i’ve been doing this for), i write about photography, spending time getting intimate with pictures and reading books that refer me to more books and more books like a chain of close friends introducing me to their loved ones, i curate in the sense that i take care (of artworks and of their makers that trust me enough to share them with me) because otherwise why are we even working in the arts, i lie on the sofa with my non-human companion and let her warm my hands in the winter, my human companion next to us letting her warm his feet, i make things out of clay making messmates out of messymuddyearth material, i teach so that i can create the space and time to be together and offer support and share resources, and sometimes i wonder if doing all these things is too much but then i remember they are all an organic part of my practice and of my way of being with photography, which is another way to say being with others, and feel kinda lucky for having a practice based on encounters, slowness, research, play and care.

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 —

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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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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

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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
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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, 2025
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)