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Luca Campigotto

Luca Campigotto was born in Venice in 1962 and lives in Milan and New York.
After earning a degree in Modern History, with a thesis on travel literature in the age of the great geographic discoveries, he turned his focus to landscape photography, completing projects all over the world.
A dedicated writer as well, his poetry has appeared in Nuovi Argomenti, and his writings are collected in the volume Disoriente.
Campigotto created the 2014 Epson calendar and the 2016 GEO Special-New York calendar.
In 2015, he received the Hemingway Prize for best photography book.

He exhibited at: Mois de la Photo and MEP, Paris; Somerset House, London; Galleria Gottardo, Lugano; IVAM, Valencia; The Art Museum, Miami; The Warehouse, Miami; CCA, Montreal; MOCA, Shangai; Venice Biennale (1997, 2000, 2011), Museo Fortuny, Dogi Palace, and Zen Palace, Venice; MAXXI, MACRO, Museo del Vittoriano, Istituto Nazionale della Grafica, and Festival della Fotografia, Rome; Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica, Milan; MART, Rovereto; Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia.

Publications: The Blue Hour, Capri Foundation, Capri 2019; Matera, Opera, San Benedetto del Tronto, 2019; Disoriente, Postcart Edizioni, Rome 2018; Venezia, storie d'acqua, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2018; Iconic China, Damiani, Bologna 2017; Les règles de la vision, Italian Culture Institute of Paris, 2016; Rome, FMR UTET, Bologna 2015; Teatri di guerra – Theatres of War, Silvana, Milan 2014; Gotham City, Damiani Editore, Bologna 2012; 50+1, Alinari-24Ore, Milan 2012; My Wild Places, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010; The Stones of Cairo, Peliti Associati, Rome 2007; VenicExposed, Contrasto, Rome / Thames&Hudson, London / La Martinière, Paris 2006; Sguardi gardesani, Nicolodi, Trento 2004; L’Arsenale di Venezia, Marsilio, Venice 2000; Fuori di casa, Imagina, Venice 1998; Molino Stucky, Marsilio, Venice 1998; Venetia Obscura, Peliti Associati, Rome / Dewi Lewis, Stockport / Marval, Paris 1995

Noted Collections: Maison Européenne de la  Photographie, Paris; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; The Progressive Collection, Cleveland; The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami; The Sagamore Collection, Miami; The Hearst Collection, New York; The Andrew J. Hall Collection, Southport CT; The Raymond Learsy Art Collection, New York; MAXXI, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Rome; Istituto Nazionale della Grafica, Rome; Unicredit Bank Collection, Milan; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; MAST Foundation, Bologna; Metropolitana, Naples; Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice; Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Varese; Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena; Galleria Civica, Modena; Museo della Fotografia, Cinisello Balsamo; Museo Civico, Riva del Garda; CRAF, Spilimbergo.

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