Francesco S. Colella (1982), photographer.
He prefers long-term projects of documentary type. His photography is strongly linked to the representation of the landscape and what it contains.
He has exhibited his photographs in various exhibitions including “Laboratori d’Italia – SiFest” (2014), Cosmos – Arles (2015), Athens Photo Festival (2016), SCAN Photobooks (2016), Giovane Fotografia Documentaria in Puglia – SP3 Gallery – Treviso (2016).
In 2013 won the Spazio Labò award at the Festival di Savignano sul Rubicone.
In 2015 he published “Foto Çasti” with the independent publisher Skinnerboox.
BOOK
Foto Çasti – published by Skinnerboox – July 2015
AWARDS & HONORS
Spazio Labò – SiFest#22 – Festival di Savignano sul Rubicone – September 2013
I Balcani in Italia (3°place) – Oxfam/Studio Marangoni – Florence – October 2012
PhotoDreaming World Photo Contest (finalist) – Fondazione FORMA – Milan – September 2011
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Moderno Desiderio – Biarch Margini, Confini, Frontiere – Teatro Margherita, Bari 1-20 Sept 2021
Balkan Spatial Perspective – Palazzo Tassoni, Ferrara – October 2018
F4 / un’idea di Fotografia 2017 – Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo (TV) July 2017
Photobook Show + – Brighton – May 2017
Felifa15 – Buenos Aires – November 2016
Shortlist SCAN Tarragona – August 2016
Photobook Exhibition on Athens Photo Festival – Benaki Museum – July 2016
On New Italian Photography (curated by Fantom) – Viasaterna – Milan – June 2016
Giovane fotografia Italiana in Puglia – Galleria SP3 – Treviso – April 2016
Mirabilia – Palazzo Beltrani – Trani – November 2015
Make a Book – Jesi (AN) – March 2015
Laboratori d’Italia – SiFest#23 – Savignano sul Rubicone (FC) – October 2014
Souther Photographs #2 – Torre Civica – Cisternino (BR) – December 2014
Souther Photographs #3 – Museo Pino Pascali – Polignano a Mare (Ba) – June 2014
Conventillos – Shared spaces of old and new immigrants – I Dialoghi di Trani – July 2012
PRESS, PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS, FEATURES, ETC
L’essenziale/Internazionale – Bari è pronta a cambiare volto – Mar 2023
Transmission | The Velvet Cell – May 2021
Elle Decor Italia – Dialoghi in divenire – May 2021
Balkans spatial perspective – November 2018
Interview on “Il Fotografo” n.285 – July 2016
Petrolia on Kiosk of democracy – June 2016
OFFPrint London – London – May 2016
fahrenheit39 – April 2016
Foto Çasti on Pelagica – February 2016
Foto Çasti & Skinnerboox – Museo Civico – Bari – January 2016
One year of Books
Garage photomarket – LO.ft – Lecce – December 2015
Booksing at Polycopies – Paris – November 2015
Interview on UP!Magazine – October 2015
Festival Internazionale di Roma – October 2015
Interview on ISO400 – FOTO ÇASTI. IL LIBRO SUI FOTOGRAFI DI STRADA DI FRANCESCO COLELLA – December 2015
Foto Çasti on RepubblicaTv – September 2015
Oneyearsofbooks – September 2015
Toner – Rassegna sulla buona editoria – August 2015
Foto Çasti – Raccomanded photobooks on Photobookstore.com – August 2015
Booksign at Cosmos – Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles 2015 – July 2015
Foto Çasti on PizzaDigitale – July 2015
Territori del Cinema Stanze, Luoghi, Paesaggi (contribution) – Publication – 2013
I tre Colori dell’Immigrazione – Publication – 2012