Friday 11 April, 6.30pm
Photoworks X Premio Luigi Ghirri | Artist talk: Alessandro Truffa, Camilla Marrese and Gabriele Chiapparini
ICI London proudly supports Photoworks and GFI | Premio Luigi Ghirri (Young Italian Photography | Luigi Ghirri Award) for the Dalby Forest Residency 2025. Photographers Camilla Marrese and Alessandro Truffa will undertake a one-week artists’ residency at Forestry England Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.
After the residency, join us at ICI London (39 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8NX) on the 11th of April 2025, 6.30 pm. for an evening of conversation and networking with the awardees of the Photoworks X Premio Luigi Ghirri: Forest Residency Award. The artists were selected through the Giovane Fotografia Italiana | Premio Luigi Ghirri (Young Italian Photography | Luigi Ghirri Award).
The artists will share insights into their practices, discussing past and ongoing projects as well as their experience undertaking their residency at Forestry England’s Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire – a 8,500 acres of woodland, with a rich history of hosting artists inspired by its landscape, ecology, and heritage. Fresh from their residency, the artists will discuss how the experience has shaped future artistic inquiry.
The artists will introduce their recent works and publications followed by an audience Q&A with the opportunity afterwards to continue conversations.
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About the artists:
- Alessandro Truffa, a Turin-based photographer and visual artist. This research revolves around the themes of care relationships and ritual traditions exploring potential correlations between photographic language and various disciplinary fields, including history and anthropology.
- Camilla Marrese is an Italian photographer and designer. Her practice combines documentary photography, design for publishing, and writing, with the goal of expressing and visualizing complex issues.
- Gabriele Chiapparini, a photographer and film director, collaborates with Camilla as part of an artist duo. They focus on collaboration as a path to transform and process individual thinking into matter for collective elaboration; an approach reflected in their latest book, Thinking Like an Island (Overlapse, 2024).
About Photoworks
Photoworks champions photography for everyone. We are an international platform, global in reach, and have provided opportunities for artists and audiences since 1995. Our programme brings new experiences to audiences and opens up new ways to encounter photography.
About GFI | Premio Luigi Ghirri (Young Italian Photography | Luigi Ghirri Award)
GFI | Premio Luigi Ghirri is a free-of-charge opportunity for artists under 35 that promotes and showcases emerging photography talents in Italy. An international commission selects the works produced and shown in a group exhibition at Palazzo dei Musei in Reggio Emilia as part of the European Photography Festival.
About Forestry England, Dalby Forest
Forestry England is an executive agency, sponsored by the Forestry Commission. Forestry England manages more land and trees than any other organisation in England. Spanning 8,500 acres of woodland, Dalby Forest has a rich history of hosting artists inspired by its landscape, ecology, and heritage. Located within the North York Moors National Park, it offers dramatic views by day and a Dark Skies Discovery Site at night.
Image Credits: © Camilla Marrese and Gabriele Chiapparini
