Camillo Pasquarelli (b.1988, Italy) is deeply inspired by his education in Anthropology to lead visual investigations based on long-term immersion in social contexts. He is one of the 20 artists selected for the FOAM Talent 2020. And in the same year is among the four artists selected by CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia for the European program Futures Photography. His first photobook "Monsoons never cross the mountains" was published by Witty Books in 2020. Camillo is a lecturer at Quasar Institute for Advanced Design in Rome. His projects received several awards such as 1° Prize LensCulture B&W, Shortlist at PH Museum Grant, Best Rising Talent at Gomma Grant, Alexia Foundation Grant, Fotoleggendo Award, Shortlist Unseen Dummy Award.
PUBLICATIONS / CLIENTS Time - Der Spiegel - M Le Monde Magazine - National Geographic - Financial Times - Internazionale - Polka - BuzzFeed - L'Espresso - Mashable - Vanity Fair - Sportweek - Artribune - FOAM Magazine - 6 Mois - Rolling Stone Magazine - Politiken - Information - Il Venerdì di Repubblica - Courier Magazine - GUP Magazine - Woz - Culture Trip - Il Reportage - TRT World - Gazeta Wyborcza - So Foot - Yogurt Magazine - TAZ - Il Manifesto - Left - Südwind Magazin - Are We Europe - Perimetro - New Frame - Positive Magazine
Lacoste - New Balance - AS Roma - K-Way - Brain Dead -NSS Factory - Phi Centre - Enel - Dude
BOOK Monsoons never cross the mountains - Witty Books. 2020
AWARDS InCadaqués Photo Festival - Finalist 2022 Romano Cagnoni Award - Shortlist 2022 Images Gibellina Open Call - Winner. 2021 PH Museum / Fonderia 20.9 Intersection - Shortlist. 2021 Camera Work, Palazzo Rasponi Ravenna - Shortlist. 2021 Premio Happiness Cortona On The Move - Finalist. 2021 Urbanautica Institute Award - Winner. 2021 PhEST Open Call - Finalist. 2021 Futures Photography - Selected by Camera Torino. 2020 Foam Talent, Foam Museum, Amsterdam - Selected. 2020 PH Museum Grant - Shortlist. 2020 Premio Francesco Fabbri - Finalist. 2020 Cosmos PDF Award - 3rd Place. 2019 UnseenDummy Award - Shortlist. 2019 ICP / GOST First Photo Book Award - Shortlist. 2019 Lucie Foundation Emerging Artist Scholarship - Shortlist. 2019 Gomma GrantBest Rising Talent - Winner. 2019 Portrait of Humanity - Winner. 2019 The Magenta Foundation - Flash Forward - Winner. 2019 Premio Marco Pesaresi- Finalist. 2019 Head On Photo Awards- Finalist. 2019 Kolga Tbilisi Photo - Conceptual - Finalist. 2019 LensCulture - Black & White Awards - 1st Place. 2018 World Report Award - Lodi, Short Story - 1st Place. 2018 Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards - 1st Place. 2018 Premio Fotoleggendo - 1st Place. 2018 Il Reportage Photojournalism Award - 3rd Place. 2018 Getxophoto International Image Festival - Post Conflict - Shortlist. 2018 Gomma Grant - Shortlist. 2018 Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Award - Selected. 2018 No Place Like Home - Gulf Photo Plus: Dubai's Center For Photography - Selected. 2018 Premio Ponchielli - Finalist. 2018 Meitar Award - Photo Israel - Finalist. 2018 Festival of Photojournalism Vilnius Photo Circle - Finalist. 2018 Alexia Foundation Award of Excellence Student Grant. 2017 Kolga Tbilisi Photo - Shortlist. 2017
EXHIBITIONS Solo
Clavadistas, curated by Giangavino Pazzola, Camera meets Mara Dei Boschi, Turin, IT. 2022 The valley of shadows, curated by Emilio D'Itri, Officine Fotografiche, Milan, IT. 2020 The valley of shadows, curated by Emilio D'Itri, Officine Fotografiche, Rome, IT. 2019
Group
InCadaqués Photo Festival, Cadaqués, SP. 2022 Photo Open Up Festival, Padova, IT. 2022 FOAM Museum, FOAM Talent Exhibition - Amsterdam, NET. 2021 Images Gibellina, Gibellina, IT. 2021 Photolux Festival, "L'inizio del Futuro" a cura di Giulia Ticozzi e Arcipelago-19, Lucca, IT. 2021 Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, IT. 2021 Camera Work - Ravenna, IT. 2021 CHARTA Photobook Festival - Rome, IT. 2021 Kühlhaus, FOAM Talent Exhibition, Berlin, GE. 2020 Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, UK. 2020 Beverley Art Gallery, Beverley, UK. 2020 Aperture Gallery, New York, US. 2019 Format Festival, Derby, UK. 2019 Unseen Dummy Award, Amsterdam, NET. 2019 Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, AU. 2019 Rescontres photographiques, Montpellier, FR. 2019 Estação Imagem, Coimbra, PO. 2019 Miami Photo Fest, Miami, US. 2019 Lishui Photography Festival, CH. 2019 Festival della Fotografia Etica, Lodi, IT. 2018 Getxophoto International Image Festival, Getxo, SP. 2018 Gulf Photo Plus: Dubai's Center For Photography, Dubai, UAE. 2018 Photo Is:rael, Tel Aviv, IS. 2018 Festival of Photojournalism Vilnius Photo Circle, Vilnius, LIT. 2018 Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards, Kuala Lumpur MAL. 2018 Indian Photography Festival, Hyderabad, IN. 2017 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, GEO. 2017
EDUCATION 2018 - Masterclass NOOR - Nikon, Turin 2017 - The Kalish - Visual Editing Workshop - Rochester Institute of Technology, USA 2017 - Master Degree in Contemporary Photojournalism at Officine Fotografiche, Rome 2015 - Master Degree in Anthropology at University of Turin 2012 - Bachelor Degree in Political Science at Roma Tre University, Rome
Camillo Pasquarelli - Photographer
Camillo Pasquarelli is a freelance photographer from Italy, mostly interested in personal and long-term projects and deals with documentary photography trough the combination of the anthropological approach and the photographic medium.