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Filippo Venturi

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Filippo Venturi

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Documentary Photographer & Visual Artist

Professional biography

Filippo Venturi is a documentary photographer and visual artist.

His work explores identity, the human condition and the ways in which political and technological forces shape contemporary life. Over the years, he has documented dictatorships, democracies in crisis, movements advocating for human rights and major social transformations across the world.

His work has been published in leading international publications, including National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Geo, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Stern, Internazionale and La Repubblica.

For several years, he has been developing a long-term photographic project on the Korean Peninsula, for which he has received international recognition, including honours at the Sony World Photography Awards, the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards and Portfolio Italia – Grand Prix Hasselblad.

Alongside his artistic practice, he teaches photojournalism, documentary photography and the relationship between photography and artificial intelligence. He regularly delivers lectures and seminars in academic and cultural settings and teaches photography on the Master's programme in Journalism at the University of Bologna.

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