Selected Works

All artworks

"In the age of the telecommunications and of the charter ones, my job is an ode to the trip away earth in its choral dimension, as collective strength of overcoming of the limits imposed by the natural strengths, for which any destination becomes a conquest of the spirit."

Mattia Insolera

Born in Bologna in 1977.

In 2009 he won the second prize for single pictures in the daily life category of the World Press Photo Award. He has been the photographer of the famous Italian singer Vasco Rossi, following his tours in 2003 and 2004. In 2005 he art directed the photographic book Sfrido (pubblished by Damiani Editore), a project of the Municipality of Bologna. Since 2005 he's represented by Grazia Neri Agency, which whom he pubblished in important magazine worldwide such as: Esquire Mexico, Financial Times, Courrier Intl', Vogue, D la Repubblica delle Donne, Io Donna, Il sole 24 ore, El Periodico. He won the Iceberg prize, promoted by the Municipality of Bologna, the Canon Italia Prize, The Alberobello Portfolio award, the Fnac European "talent latent" award. Since 2007 he's based in Barcelona. In Spain he won  the professional scholarship of the Albarracin Seminary and the photography award of the Biennale of Girona.  He colaborate regularly with the newspaper El Periodico. Some of his images are conserved by the Nicéphore Niépce  Foundation in Chalon-sur-Saône.

EXHIBITIONS

2010 Screening of Limbo, Espacio La Fabrica, Barcelona

2009 Screening of Rainbow Country during Traffic Festival, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona

2009 Bienal Internacional de Fotografía de Girona with the project “Album de families”
2009 World Press Photo 2009, itinerant exhibition
2006 Indocina tramonto degli ideali, FNAC of Genova - Torino - Milano
2006 SFRIDO, Sala Esposizioni della Chiesa dell’Antoniano, Bologna
2005 CANTIERE D.F. I. G., Daniela Facchinato Image Gallery, Bologna
2004 Fotografia in Puglia 2004, Alberobello
2004 Angelo B, Galleria ClicArt, Milano
2004 Toscana Foto Festival, Massa Marittima
2004 Rully Grand Réserve, Galleria Comunale, Alberobello
2004 Rully Grand Réserve, permanent exhibition, Nicéphore Niépce Foundation, Chalon-sur-Saône
2003 Havana Decadence, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna


PUBLICATIONS
 

2006 SFRIDO, texts by Massimo Pavarini and Stefano Benni, photos by Mattia Insolera, published by Damiani Editore
2005 Daniele Silvestri: Autostrade, published by Chiaro Scuro
2005 Buoni o Cattivi Live Anthology 04.05, cover Album of Vasco Rossi

 

AWARDS

 
2009 International Photography Awards
2009 Bienal Internacional de Fotografía de Girona
2009 52° World Press Photo (second prize)
2009 Grant CONCA (Conseil Nacional de la Cultura i de les Arts de la Generalitat de Catalunya) per il progetto “Drets Naufragats”
2008 Grant for the seminar of photojournalism of Albarracín (Spain) with the project “Rainbow Country”
2005 Attenzione Talento Fotografico, FNAC
2004 Premio Canon Giovani Fotografi
2003 Iceberg 2003, categoria reportage with his work “Havana decadence”
2003 Alberobello Fotografia