Federico Piazza
I was born in Rivoli, Turin, in 1988. After high school I've studied medicine and then become a neurologist.
I moved to Rome in 2022, where I started photography and I currently work and live.
I have always been fascinated by photography: when I was a kid, I used to buy a disposable camera everywhere I went. I still remember the thrilling sensation of waiting the pictures to be ready after development.
In those years, digital photography was just at its dawn and people like me, who wanted to see their pictures, had necessarily to reach out a photo shop. There were no little screens, no possible previews of what you had impressed on the film after pulling the shutter.
I approached author photography only recently, after I moved to Rome. At the beginning, photography was just a particular instrument to explore and discover my new city. Early from the beginning of the exploration, I was fascinated by places not covered by mass culture and often light-speed shared via social media. Photographing spontaneously on the streets automatically brought me to discover the genre of street photography and its approach: the photographer is in the center of the scene, portraying with his own way and sensibility the ordinary and extraordinary happening around him.
Having been always interested in socials questions and politics, I could not refrain from deepening also the reportage genre. With this regard, my main focus in Rome is the development and every-day-life of neighbourhoods far from mass tourism and gentrification.
My first wide project called "Not built in a day" is focused on the transformation of Rome in preparation for the 2025 Jubilee. Some pictures from this project have been awarded with the first prize in the contest "Iubila" organised and supported by Centro Studi Roma and the Italian Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale and will be exposed in the Italian Culture Centers of Warsaw, Kracow and Munich from September, 2025.