Filippo Venturi is a documentary photographer and a visual artist based in Italy.
He produces projects on stories and issues concerning identity and the human condition.

He has documented totalitarian dictatorships in Asia, highlighting in his work the artificiality with which these countries display and narrate themselves to the world, and has witnessed neo-fascist currents in Europe and the movements that, in response, fight to protect minority rights and democracy.

His works have been published in leading international magazines, such as National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Newsweek, Geo, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Stern, Internazionale, La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera and La Stampa.

For the past years he has been engaged in a project on the Korean peninsula, earning him the Sony World Photography award, the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award, the Il Reportage Award, the Voglino Award and the Portfolio Italia – Grand Prix Hasselblad.

His works have been exhibited in Italy and abroad in exhibition spaces and festivals like Foro Boario in Modena as "New Talent" of the Modena Photography Foundation, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Somerset House in London, U Space in Beijing, Willy Brandt Haus in Berlin, Sony Square in New York City, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Kaunas Photo Festival, Voies Off Awards at Les Rencontres d'Arles, Photolux in Lucca, SI Fest in Savignano sul Rubicone, Riaperture Photofestival in Ferrara, PhMuseum Days Photo Festival in Bologna and Festival of Ethical Photography in Lodi.

He teaches photojournalism and documentary photography. His workshops and public talks have been hosted at the University of Padova (within the History of Journalism course), Ca' Foscari University in Venice (Radio Ca' Foscari), the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, the Free Academy of Fine Arts of Rimini, the Malatestiana Library in Cesena as well as in various photography festivals (Copenhagen Photo Festival, Riaperture Photofestival, Biennale of Female Photography of Mantua, etc), European projects (Reconstruction of Identities, European Shaping Fair Cities project, Erasmus+ Photography for Future, etc) and cultural associations.

He has been member of the jury in several prestigious awards like the Marco Pesaresi Award for Contemporary Photography and the Malatesta Short Film Festival.

In 2017 he was the Reporter sent to North Korea by Vanity Fair Italia Magazine.
In 2018 he was the Fujifilm Testimonial in the FIAF Project "The Family in Italy".
In 2019 he was selected by SI Fest, the Photography Festival of Savignano sul Rubicone, to participate in the IDE Project - Reconstruction of Identities, funded by the European Union, which involves realities such as the Copenhagen Photo Festival, AD HOC Gestion Cultural SL and NOOR Foundation. He also led the “Regeneration lines” photographic workshop of the Creative Living Lab project by Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
In 2020 he produced several works on Covid-19 which have been published all over the world.
In 2021 he led the "My Dear" photographic workshop of the European Shaping Fair Cities project, which involved twenty women of nine different nationalities with the aim of pursuing Goal 5 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda: achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. He also led the "Citizen Lab" photographic workshop, which involved fifty high school students, with the aim of stimulating their consideration and creativity about their relationship with the institutions, carrying out small documentation projects of the period of the electoral campaign and administrative elections.
In 2022 his work “Foundations of a mirage” was nominated for the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award.
In 2023 he started working with artificial intelligence, producing conceptual works that won awards in various competitions and festivals. He was selected by the Photo Vogue Festival, an event where he was also a speaker with a talk entitled “Broken Mirror. A dystopian guide to crossing the border”. The Seoul and Pyongyang pavilions are dedicated to him as part of the Countless Cities biennal festival, where for the first time the three photographic chapters taken on the Korean peninsula (on South Korean youth, North Korean youth and North Korean defectors) are exhibited.
In 2024 he led numerous workshops and seminars exploring the relationship between photography and artificial intelligence. His work was exhibited in the major exhibition Pixel Perceptions: Into the Eye of AI, which brought together an international selection of the most interesting visual artists working with artificial intelligence and explored how this new technology affects, consciously and unconsciously, our perception of the world.

Contacts

Web: www.filippoventuri.photography
Email: filippo.venturi@gmail.com

Selected Awards

2025
Winner – Author of the year in Italy by the FIAF

2024
Winner – Call for entry Cosmo Photo Fest
Finalist – Call Percorsi del Festival della Fotografia Italiana
Shortlisted – Athens Photo Festival

2023
Winner – Nonprofit World, Festival of Ethical Photography in Lodi
Winner – Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards
Winner – Helsinki Photo Festival
Special Mention – Fotografia Calabria Festival
Finalist – Gomma Photography Grant
Finalist – PhMuseum Photography Grant
Finalist – Cortona On The Move Award

2022
Nominated – Leica Oskar Barnack Award
Selected – PhMuseum Days Collective Show
Special Mention – Urbanautica Institute Awards
Finalist – Imago Photo International Contest

2021
3rd prize – Rovinj Photodays
Selected – Top PHmuseum Stories of 2021
Selected – Cronache Quaranteniche, Bibbiena, CIFA
Finalist – Lugano Award Covid-19
Shortlisted – Bartur Photo Award, Leica Photojournalist of the Year
Shortlisted – Bartur Photo Award, Main Award
Shortlisted – Helsinki Photo Festival

2020
Winner – Batumi Photodays Festival
2nd Prize – International Festival of Photography Photovisa
Selected – Top PHmuseum Stories of 2020
Finalist – International Photography Grant
Finalist – Athens Photo Festival

2019
Winner – Batumi Photodays Festival
Special Mention – Imago Photo International Contest
Finalist – Crediamo ai Tuoi Occhi
Finalist – Grand Prix Award (Białystok Interphoto Festival)
Finalist – Verzasca Foto Awards
Finalist – Belfast Photo Festival
Finalist – Kolga Tbilisi Photo
Finalist – Gomma Photography Grant
Finalist – Premio Mario Dondero

2018
1st prize – Gomma Photography Grant
1st prize – Simultanei (Lucca Photolux Festival)
1st prize – Autore dell’Anno FIAF Emilia Romagna
1st prize – Diecixdieci Festival della Fotografia Contemporanea
1st prize – Tokyo International Foto Awards
Remarkable Artwork – Siena International Photo Awards
Selected – Voies Off Awards (Les Rencontres d'Arles)
Selected – New Visions (Cortona On The Move)
Selected – Single Shot World Report Award (Festival of Ethical Photography of Lodi)
Finalist – Premio Marco Pesaresi
Finalist – Athens Photo Festival
Finalist – British Journal of Photography
Finalist – Kolga Tbilisi Photo

2017
Winner – LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards
1st prize – Portfolio Italia (Hasselblad Grand Prix)
1st prize – Premio Voglino (Frame Foto Festival)
1st prize – Premio Il Reportage (Umbria Photo Fest)
1st prize – Sassoferrato Portfolio Award
3rd prize – PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
Finalist – Premio Amilcare Ponchielli
Finalist – Premio Marco Pesaresi
Finalist – Belfast Photo Festival

2016
Winner – Emerging Talents
1st prize – Tokyo International Foto Awards
1st prize – PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
1st prize – PDN Emerging Photographer
2nd prize – Sony World Photography Awards
2nd prize – International Photographer of the Year
2nd prize – Moscow International Foto Awards
Finalist – Premio Amilcare Ponchielli
Finalist – Lugano Photo Days Contest
Finalist – Il Reportage Photojournalism Award
Finalist – Gomma Photography Grant

2015
1st prize – New Talent by Fondazione Fotografia Modena
1st prize – Fine Art Photography Awards
1st prize – Sassoferrato Portfolio Award
2nd prize – PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
2nd prize – Moscow International Foto Awards
2nd prize – Crediamo ai tuoi occhi
Finalist – Portfolio Italia
Finalist – Premio Marco Pesaresi

Artist Residencies

2019
IDE Project – Savignano sul Rubicone (IT), SI Fest
IDE Project – Copenhagen (DK), Copenhagen Photo Festival

2013
YPAD Project – Camarinas (ES)

Public Collections

Harvard University Library
Marco Pesaresi Photo Library (Municipality of Savignano sul Rubicone)

Selected Exhibitions

2025
Broken Mirror – Germany (DE), Parallel Realities, Kommunale Galerie Berlin
Broken Mirror – Roma, Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia Adams

2024
Broken Mirror – Colleferro (Roma), Cosmo Photo Fest
Foundations of a Mirage – Pratovecchio Stia (Arezzo), Festival della Fotografia Italiana
Broken Mirror – Otranto (Lecce), Fase Festival
Broken Mirror – San Felice sul Panaro (Modena), FotoIncontri Festival
He Looks Like You – Paola (Cosenza), Fotografia Calabria Festival
He Looks Like You – Groningen (NL), Pixel Perceptions: Into the Eye of AI

2023
Pollution Valley – Voghera, Festival Voghera Fotografia
How Long is the Night – Tbilisi (GE), Kolga Tbilisi Photo
Broken Mirror – Tbilisi (GE), Kolga Tbilisi Photo
Broken Mirror – Bologna, PhMuseum Days
Broken Mirror – Verzasca (CH), Verzasca Foto Festival
Broken Mirror – Jakarta (ID), Jakarta International Photography Festival
Broken Mirror – Piacenza, Photo’23 Foto-Sintesi
Broken Mirror – Milano, PhotoVogue Festival
Korean Dream – Pratovecchio Stia, FIAF
Korean Dream, Made in Korea, Awakenings – Mazzarino, Countless Cities Biennial
Awakenings – Helsinki (FI), Helsinki Photo Festival
Awakenings – Nonprofit World, Festival of Ethical Photography in Lodi

2022
Linea con/temporanea R0 – Forlì (curator of the laboratory), Spazi Indecisi
Abbecedario Fotogratico – Forlì, Palazzo del Monte di Pietà
Foundations of a Mirage – Bologna, PhMuseum Days International Photography Festival
Pollution Valley – Ravenna, Biblioteca Classense, Progetto Ambiente, Clima, Futuro
Pollution Valley – Torino, Nuvola Lavazza, Progetto Ambiente, Clima, Futuro
Pollution Valley – Foreste Casentinesi, Fotografie nel parco, Progetto Ambiente, Clima, Futuro
Pollution Valley – Bibbiena, CIFA, Progetto Ambiente, Clima, Futuro
Korean Dream – Piacenza, La Notte della Fotografia

2021
Korean Dream – Ferrara, Riaperture Photofestival
My Dear – Savignano sul Rubicone, SI Fest
Fearless – Bibbiena, CIFA, Cronache Quaranteniche
Birth of a Metropolis – Batumi (GE), Batumi Photodays Festival

2020
Fotografare in isolamento – Meet The Docs! Film Fest
IDE Project, Reconstruction of Identities – Savignano sul Rubicone, SI Fest
IDE Project, Reconstruction of Identities – Barbastro (ES), BFOTO
IDE Project, Reconstruction of Identities – Copenhagen (DK), Copenhagen Photo Festival
IDE Project, Reconstruction of Identities – Amsterdam (NL), NOOR

2019
Profondo Nero – San Felice sul Panaro, Galleria FIAF
Eyes Wide Shut – Bibbiena, CIFA, Crediamo ai tuoi occhi, Fotoconfronti
Korean Dream – Batumi (GE), Batumi Photodays Festival
Korean Dream – Pontremoli, Pontremoli Foto Festival
Birth of a Metropolis – Białystok (PL), Białystok Interphoto Festival
Birth of a Metropolis – Taranto, Galleria FIAF
Birth of a Metropolis – Sardegna, BìFoto Festival della Fotografia
Birth of a Metropolis – Mantova, Spazio Arrivabene2
Birth of a Metropolis – Brescia, Macof Centro della fotografia italiana

2018
Birth of a Metropolis – Lucca, Photolux Festival
Made in Korea & Korean Dream – Torino, Galleria FIAF
Made in Korea & Korean Dream – Lodi, Festival of Ethical Photography
Made in Korea – Gonzaga e Luzzara, Diecixdieci Festival Fotografia Contemporanea
Korean Dream – Bibbiena, 19° FotoConfronti
Korean Dream – Savignano sul Rubicone, 27° Premio SI Fest Portfolio
Korean Dream – Corigliano Calabro, 11° Portfolio Jonico
Korean Dream – Castelnuovo Garfagnana, 17° Portfolio dell’Ariosto
Korean Dream – Sestri Levante, 12° Portfolio al Mare
Korean Dream – New Visions, Cortona On The Move
Korean Dream – Voies Off Awards, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Cour de l'Archevêché
Korean Dream – Sassoferrato, 9° Portfolio dello Strega
Korean Dream – Taranto, 15° FotoArte in Portfolio
Korean Dream – Cortona, 70° Congresso Nazionale FIAF
Korean Dream – Tbilisi (GE), Kolga Tbilisi Photo
Korean Dream – New York City (US), Klompching Gallery
Side Effects – Bagno di Romagna, Palazzo del Capitano
Eyes Wide Shut – Tokyo (JP), CA Gallery
The State of the World – Paris (FR)
Kazakistan – Astana (KZ), Photofest.kz
La Famiglia in Italia – Reggio Calabria, Castello Aragonese
La Famiglia in Italia – Forlì, Sala XC Pacifici
La Famiglia in Italia – Bibbiena, CIFA

2017
Korean Dream – Bibbiena, CIFA, Portfolio Italia
Made in Korea – Forlì, Palazzo del Monte di Pietà
Demigods – Paris (FR), Espace Beaurepaire
Demigods – Tokyo (JP), Shibuya Cultural Center Owada
Demigods – Forlì, Galleria a Cielo Aperto
E il mare concederà a ogni uomo nuove speranze – Cesena, ex Roverella

2016
Made in Korea – Roma, Macro, Emerging Talents
Made in Korea – New York (US), Sony Square NYC
Made in Korea – Bratislava (SK), Expo@Eurovea
Made in Korea – Sassoferrato, 66° Rassegna Internazionale d’Arte
Made in Korea – Cologne (DE), PhotoKina
Made in Korea – Lecco, Immagimondo Festival
Made in Korea – Milano, Spazio Tadini
Made in Korea – Kaunas (LT), Kaunas Photo Festival
Made in Korea – Berlin (DE), Willy Brandt Haus
Made in Korea – Beijing (CN), U Space
Made in Korea – Bergamo, Galleria Ceribelli, Photographers II
Made in Korea – London (GB), Somerset House
Made in Korea – Napoli, Aeroporto Internazionale, Slideluck On Board
L’Ira Funesta – Forlì, Chiostro di San Mercuriale

2015
Made in Korea – Modena, Foro Boario, Fondazione Fotografia
Made in Korea – Bibbiena, CIFA, Portfolio Italia
Made in Korea – Bibbiena, CIFA, Crediamo ai tuoi occhi
L’Ira Funesta – Cesenatico, Colonia Ex Santarcangiolese
DO.VE. | contemporary dotted venue – Forlì, Ex Asilo Santarelli

2014
L’Ira Funesta – Mercato Saraceno, Palazzo Dolcini
Fuori Orario – Forlì, Palazzo Romagnoli
Rugby – Tbilisi (GE), Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award

2013
Terzo Tempo – Cesena, Centro Cinema San Biagio
In Oblivion – Bibbiena, CIFA, Crediamo ai tuoi occhi
Totally Lost – Forlì, Ex Deposito ATR
The Game of War – Camarinas (ES), YPAD Project

Publications

National Geographic (USA, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Brazil, Japan), The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Guardian Weekend, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, Newsweek Japan, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Stern, De Volkskrant, De Morgen, Das Magazin, Internazionale, La Stampa, Marie Claire (Korea, Indonesia), Gente, La Repubblica, D di Repubblica, Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Io Donna del Corriere della Sera, Riders Magazine, Il Post, Il Sole 24 Ore, La Stampa, Il Manifesto, L’Humanité, Il Resto del Carlino, Il Giorno, Touring Magazine, Robb Report, Haaretz, L'Officiel Voyage Russia, The Cut, Ozy, Tu Style, Glamour Hungary, World Energy (ENI Magazine), Geo Germany, Geo Wissen, Geo Latvia, Geo Magazine International (Italy, Russia, Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Turkey), Bird in Flight, Il Reportage, FotoIT, Jesus Magazine, Focus Junior, Il Fotografo, Joia Magazine, P3 Magazine, hDL Magazine, 4Bicycle Magazine, 4Running Magazine, Artwave, Lenta.ru, FPmag, Kill Screen Magazine, Lazagne Magazine, Lensculture Magazine, C41 Magazine, Dodho Magazine, Milanodabere, Monthly Photography Korea, PDN Emerging Photographers, The Post Internazionale, Witness Journal, Posi+tive Magazine, OAI13 Magazine, Wu Magazine, Eyebook Magazine, Musée Magazine, Corriere di Romagna, La Voce, ForliToday, A Cesena, In Magazine, Premium, Budo Magazine, Piazza Grande, Ravenna e dintorni, Club Milano, Boxe Ring, Zanichelli, Pearson Italia, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Cities, etc.