Luca Campigotto BIO en

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 has 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, Shanghai; 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.

Main Publications:

American Elegy, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2021
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

Main 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