BIOGRAPHY

Alessandro Mallamaci – Photography

His interest in the visual arts, communication and photography, began in 1996.

Until 2008, he worked as an ambassador and educator, collaborating with esteemed brands like EIZO, Leica and Fujifilm. More recently, he had the privilege of lecturing at Columbia College in Chicago, USA. In 2024 he started a new exciting teaching journey at Academy of Fine Arts, in Perugia, Italy.

His artistic projects and books he has designed have received awards and graced exhibitions, art fairs and galleries across China, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the UK and the USA, fostering valuable international collaborations.

He has successfully managed a cultural centre, a photography school, a far reaching educational project encompassing dozens of classes and teachers across Italy. He has orchestrated festivals, workshops, and thought-provoking talks. He has curated various exhibitions and led a communication agency, a photo agency, and a fine art printing lab.

Member of Tau Visual, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi Professionisti, he is represented by Galleria Valeria Bella in Milan.

His photographs have been published in various magazines and books.

AWARDS

/// 2024

• Winner of the Raccontare l’Italia – InTarget Award by Photolux Festival.
• Shortlisted for the 166th International Photography Exhibition by Royal Photographic Society.
• Winner of the Elsewhere Ruthin International Arts Festival Open Call.
• Shortlisted for the FE+SK Book Award, promoted by Fotografia Europea festival and Skinnerboox.
• Winner of the alfabèto call F is for Fake.
• Shortlisted for the Athens Photo Festival.
• Winner of The Beauty in Decay Open Call by The Chateau Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky USA.

/// 2023

• Selected for the Lishui Photography Festival in China.
• Shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards, professional / landscape category.
• Winner of the Open Call PAESAGGI | Affinità e divergenze, organised by FormicaLab in Cuneo, Italy.
• Winner of the Open Call and selected for The performing photobook exhibition, curated by Francesca Serravalle at the Format International Photography Festival in Derby, UK.
• Winner of the Open Call and selected for the Back on the Shelf book exhibition at Filter Photo, in Chicago, USA.
• Selected as a semi-finalist for the Eyeshot Open Call 2023.
• Special mention for the Urbanautica Institute Annual Awards.
• Winner of the With or without roots Open Call.

///2022

• Winner of the International Open Submission by the Belfast Photo Festival.
• Bronze Placement for the Tokyo International Foto Awards.
• Winner of the Lightland Open Call, juried by Vittorio Storaro.

///2021

• Shortlisted for the Andy Rocchelli Grant.
• Special mention for the Urbanautica Institute Annual Awards.

///2015

• Finalist at the Portfolio Italia contest.

MAIN COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

/// 2024

• Paris Photo
  Galleria Valeria Bella
  Paris, FR
• The Beauty in Decay
  The Chateau Gallery
  Louisville, Kentucky, USA

/// 2023

• Art Exhibition
  EcoSuites
  Tristinika Beach, Greece
• The performing photoboook
  Format International Photography Festival
  Derby, UK
• Back on the Shelf
  Filter Photo
  Chicago, USA
• Drive-in
  Galleria Valeria Bella
  Milan, Italy
• Con e senza radici
  Roots Art Gallery
  Pisa, Italy

/// 2022

• Jæja
  SÍM Residency,
  Reykjavík, Iceland
• Belfast Photo Festival
  specially curated presentations featuring the photo-book winners of the 2022 International Open Submission
  Botanic Gardens, Belfast, UK
• La biennale dello Stretto
  curator arch. Alfonso Femia
  Campo Calabro, Forte Batteria Siacci, Reggio Calabria, Italy

/// 2021

• Inside things
  Valeria Bella Gallery
  Milan, Italy
• Kaos Antithesis of Silence: form, space, time
  organized by the Superintendence of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Salerno and Avellino and Kaos 48
  Bourbon prison of Avellino, Italy

/// 2012

• De rerum natura
  Monogram Gallery
  Rome, Italy

/// 2010

• Projeten
  promoted by Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano and Bovarché.
  Bova (RC), Italy

MAIN SOLO EXHIBITIONS

/// 2024

• Un luogo bello
  Photolux Festival
  Lucca, Italy
• Summer Love
  Ruthin International Arts Festival,
  North Wales, UK
• The Longest Sunset
  MIA Photo Fair,
  Milano, Italy
• An orange landscape
  La biennale dello Stretto
  curated by arch. Alfonso Femia
  Campo Calabro (RC), Italy

/// 2023

• Un luogo bello
  Lishui Photography Festival,
  China
• Summer Love
  Open Call 2023 exhibition
  Eyeshot
  Magazzini Fotografici, Naples, Italy
• Un luogo bello
  Paesaggi | Affinità e divergenze
  FormicaLab
  Cuneo, Italy

/// 2022

• Un luogo bello
  The Phair
  Valeria Bella Gallery
  Turin, Italy

/// 2019

• Reggio Calabria, notes for a story
  Corigliano Calabro Photography Festival
  Corigliano Calabro (CS), Italy

/// 2015

• The man who became God
  SI Fest OFF
  Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
• Lisboa nào è a cidade perfeita
  C.I.F.A. (Italian Center for Author Photography)
  Bibbiena, Italy

/// 2011

• The man who became God
  “Off” circuit of the “Les rencontres d’Arles” festival
  Arles, France