Luca S.

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Luca Santese(1985) studied at Monza’s Art institute and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. While attending the academy he worked like assistant in Alex Majo- li’s studio and in 2008 he founded the collective Cesura: an independent group of photographers aimed to create photojournalism, documentary and artistic research projects. In 2009 he was selected by Photolucida Critical Mass as a new talent. In 2010 he was selected by the World Press Photo prizewith the project Detroit 2009-2010 and in the same year he exhibited for the first time the project Found Photos in Detroit at Le Bal Space in Paris, to which followed exhibitions at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, at the OGR in Turin and at the MoCP in Chicago and numerous further international exhibitions. In 2012 he published the Found Photos in Detroit book with Arianna Arcara. The book has collected seven nominations as the best photographic book of the year and was selected by Martin Parr and Garry Badger for the series: Photo- book: A History Vol III, which collects the 200 best books after the second world war. The curatorial experience of Found Photos in Detroit continued in the Italy & Italy project, a book that collects a selection of images of the city of Rimini in the 90s: the breakdown of the Berlusconi's Italy in its maximum worldly fulfillment. In 2019 is the curator of Immaginario, the the archive exhibition of Touring club Italiano, which is now currently exhibited at Palazzo Lombardia. Today Santese's work is concentrated in the production of research photography. He continues to deal with experimental documentary photography as in the recent projects Realpolitik and Festa. Santese's work has been published and exhibited in Europe, Russia and the United States. https://lucasantese.cargo.site/ http://www.cesura.it

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