Biography
BENEDETTA ALFIERI
Benedetta Alfieri (Parma, 1973) graduated in Philosophy in Bologna and, after having worked as a coordinator in the professional training sector for several years, began to become interested in photography. She took her first photos alternating a digital machine with a floppy disk with an old Minolta dual-lens camera.
She applied herself to developing her technique and became increasingly interested in the many philosophical implications of photography. She studied the basis of this language at the Riccardo Bauer CFP in Milan, gained a diploma in photography in 2003 and attended a specialist course in techniques and language of contemporary photography projects in 2004. In 2007, she took part in a post-graduate course in cataloguing and archiving in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Cinisello Balsamo. She has also taken part in numerous seminars and workshops for young photographers, including those led by John Gossage and Dominique Auerbacher at Linea di Confine for Fotografia Contemporanea, a cultural association with which she has collaborated and where she later attended the studio of the artist Silvio Wolf for a brief period.
She currently combines her work as a photographer with that of collaborating in the planning and realisation of cultural events. Her works have been part of group exhibitions and national selections, including Premio Interfacce: Fotoesordio 03, by MIFAV (Museum of the Photographic Image and Visual Arts) in Rome; Foto Around (2004), by the Italian Foundation for Photography in Turin and Art for Art's Shake (2006 and 2007) at important historical buildings in Bologna. In 2004 she was awarded first prize at the IX edition of the Riccardo Pezza National Photography Award for her project Generazioni, whose theme was to recount a place and her work was displayed at the Milan Triennale. Some of her solo exhibitions include Album bianco (Piacenza, 2005), curated by Lucia Miodini, Non calpestare le margherite (Bologna, 2006), by Comunicattive and Bianche Apparenze (Padova, 2007), curated by Enrico Gusella.
She applied herself to developing her technique and became increasingly interested in the many philosophical implications of photography. She studied the basis of this language at the Riccardo Bauer CFP in Milan, gained a diploma in photography in 2003 and attended a specialist course in techniques and language of contemporary photography projects in 2004. In 2007, she took part in a post-graduate course in cataloguing and archiving in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Cinisello Balsamo. She has also taken part in numerous seminars and workshops for young photographers, including those led by John Gossage and Dominique Auerbacher at Linea di Confine for Fotografia Contemporanea, a cultural association with which she has collaborated and where she later attended the studio of the artist Silvio Wolf for a brief period.
She currently combines her work as a photographer with that of collaborating in the planning and realisation of cultural events. Her works have been part of group exhibitions and national selections, including Premio Interfacce: Fotoesordio 03, by MIFAV (Museum of the Photographic Image and Visual Arts) in Rome; Foto Around (2004), by the Italian Foundation for Photography in Turin and Art for Art's Shake (2006 and 2007) at important historical buildings in Bologna. In 2004 she was awarded first prize at the IX edition of the Riccardo Pezza National Photography Award for her project Generazioni, whose theme was to recount a place and her work was displayed at the Milan Triennale. Some of her solo exhibitions include Album bianco (Piacenza, 2005), curated by Lucia Miodini, Non calpestare le margherite (Bologna, 2006), by Comunicattive and Bianche Apparenze (Padova, 2007), curated by Enrico Gusella.
