Claudia Amatruda (Foggia, 1995)
Claudia is a visual artist living and working in Bologna, IT. Her work focuses on the representation of the body through photography, video performances and installations, addressing social issues such as disability and with particular attention to the creative process, supported by research on scientific and literary texts. In 2019 she published the photographic book Naiade, presented through lectures in Italian schools and festivals to raise awareness on the topic of invisible diseases. From 2021 to the present her project When you hear hoofbeats think of horses, not zebras is exhibited in Italy, Greece, France, Holland and England. In 2022 she won the Special Mention for the Emerging Photography section of the Francesco Fabbri Prize. According to Il Giornale dell’Arte she is among the 30 artists under 30 in 2023 and produced NFT works during a PhotoVogue x Voice.com Art Residency. In 2024 she exhibited her project Good Use of my Bad Health at the Fotografia Europea Festival in Reggio Emilia, winning the ‘Nuove Traiettorie’ mention of the Luigi Ghirri Prize: an art residency and solo exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm in May 2025. This year she will release her new photography book published by RVM HUB.

Matteo Buonomo (Monza, 1991)
Matteo approached photography as a self-taught after graduating in Graphic Design and Art Direction at NABA in Milan (2014). After working on a documentary about Abkhazian refugees in Tbilisi, Georgia, she joined the CESURA photography collective (2015 – 2017), leaving photojournalism for a research-oriented practice. In Oklahoma she developed the series Love Mom (2019), an ongoing project that explores the sometimes toxic relationship between mother and child, while also highlighting the emptiness and loneliness of American suburbia, themes central to her research. After moving to a small town in Val di Noto, Sicily, he expanded his reflection to autobiographical aspects of escape and isolation. In 2022 he was selected by Vogue Italia and PhotoVogue as one of the winners of Italian Panorama; the following year the Penumbra Foundation (New York) awarded him a full fellowship for the Long-Term Program ‘The Photobook’.

Benedetta Casagrande (Milano, 1993)
She graduated in Photography from the University of Brighton (2016) and in Museum Curating with Photography from the University of Sussex (2019). Beginning with a theoretical approach in ecology and critical studies, Casagrande uses photography to investigate landscape in its physical components, human and non-human, and our capacity to relate to it, highlighting the links between materials and environmental disruption. She is the winner of the Luigi Ghirri Prize (2024) and the FE+SK Book Award (2024), and received a special mention from the jury at the 13th edition of the Francesco Fabbri Prize. Her first book, “All things laid dormant” (Skinnerboox, 2024) is a finalist in the Arles Authors Book Award and the Singapore International Photography Festival Book Award. His work is exhibited in relevant national and international institutions, including Photo Ireland (Dublin, 2019), 副本 INSTANCE (Shanghai, 2021), Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia, 2024), Photo Brussels (2024), and Triennale (Milan, 2025).

Alessio Pellicoro (Taranto, 1994)
He approached photography in 2016, a field he deepened by graduating first with a bachelor’s degree in Photography and Visual Arts at IED – Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome (2019) and then with a master’s degree in Photography for Publishing and Cultural Heritage at lSIAU – Istituti Superiori per le Industrie Artistiche di Urbino (2023). Through the use of images made by the author and others taken from various archives, Pellicoro’s research focuses on the analysis of the natural, human and cultural landscape of his origins, understood as a metaphor for understanding his own biography, the values of belonging and the social effects of pollution in the modernization of Southern Italy. Pellicoro’s works have been published in various magazines and included in solo exhibitions in museums and foundations such as, for example, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo – Guarene (2024), Photo Brussels (2024), and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In 2020 he published his first photography book “Abyss” with DITO Publishing.

Martina Zanin (San Daniele del Friuli, 1994)
She graduated in Photography from ISFCI – Institute of Photography in Rome (2016) and IED European Institute of Design in Madrid (2018). Her practice moves between photography, writing, collage, installation, sculpture and artist’s book to explore themes related to family and personal relationships. Publishes “I Made Them Run Away” with Skinnerboox (2021) and a self-published artist book “Older Than Love” (2021). He wins the Driving Energy | Terna Award (2023). His work is exhibited in numerous art and photography spaces nationally and internationally, including GNAM – National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome (2024), IIC Toronto (2024), Cassina Projects, Milan (2024), Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2023), Foto Forum, Bolzano (2023), Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (2023), Benaki Museum, Athens (2022), IIC Abu Dhabi (2021). His works have become part of public collections such as MoMA Library New York, Haas Library at Yale University, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FMAV – Fondazione Modena Arti Visive and Fondazione Orestiadi di Gibellina.