About

Sofia Podestà is a photographer based in Rome, Italy. She graduated at the Art History faculty of the University of Roma Tre in 2018, with a thesis on the photography of Luigi Ghirri, Guido Guidi and Vittore Fossati. She studied photography through the filter of Art History to have a more cross-sectional vision.
In 2018 she was selected to attend the Summer School by SISF and the Advanced training at MAXXI museum in Rome.
She received in 2019 the award GIOVANI CREATIVI, for the category of photography, as one of the best twelve Italian creative talents under 30. At the moment she also works for a contemporary art gallery in Rome.

Her work focuses on the relationship between human beings and the landscape, and the extent to which they influence each other. Travel is essential to Podestà's research. It is through this dimension that she is able to discover unique and remote places, selecting destinations that she knows will inspire her and to which she then returns via the medium of her photography.

Represented in Rome by RvB Arts

To know more on my travels:
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STUDIES
Advanced training at MAXXI museum
Summer School Sisf in Pieve Tesino, Trento
Workshop // Vittore Fossati at Officine Fotografiche, Rome
MA in Models and languages of Contemporary Photography, Università di Roma Tre, Rome
Internship at MACRO Museum, Rome
BA in Contemporary Art - Università La Sapienza, Rome

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2020 Distant Horizons • RvB Arts, Rome
2019 DESERTICA, curated by Tayisiya Libokhorska • Sinestetica, Rome.
2018 Emotional landscapes • Medina Gallery, Rome.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 ImagiNation Paris • ParisPhoto off, Joseph Turenne Gallery, Paris, France
2021 Niente in particolare • Italian Embassy, Amman, Jordan
2020 Segni Particolari • Museo Civico di Castel Nuovo - Maschio Angioino, Naples, Italy
2020 Segni Particolari • Roma Smistamento, Rome, Italy
2020 Group show curated by Michele von Büren • RvB Arts, Rome
2019 Mirabilia • Sinestetica, Rome.
2019 GIOVANI CREATIVI • Palazzo Massimo, Rome.
2018 Medina fotografia • Medina Gallery, Rome.
2016 The Adventure Handbook Photo Exhibition • Goodspace Gallery, Sydney.
2016 The Adventure Handbook Photo Exhibition • RVCA Gallery, Melbourne.

AWARDS
2020 PhC Capalbiofotografia International Photography Festival • Special Mention
2019 Giovani Creativi • Best Italian talents under 30
2018 Premio Medina Fotografia

LECTURES
2021 Find your way in landscape photography, webinar at Daisie
2019 Incontro e confronto tra creativi, Talk at Palazzo Massimo in Rome, promoted by Giovani Creativi
2019 Host at Premio Ciack #InLombardia by Regione Lombardia at Belvedere di Palazzo Lombardia, Milano
2019 Lo sguardo di Luigi Ghirri, lecture at Sinestetica , Rome
2018 Elementi dela natura nelle fotografie di Fossati, Guidi e Ghirri | Storia della fotografia - La ricerca junior in Italia, Terzo seminario nazionale, Università degli Studi di Firenze, curated by Prof. A. Frongia and Prof. T. Serena, promoted by SISF