Contact
Email: alessandro.cristofoletti83@gmail.com
ph: +393492721043
Instagram: alessandro.cristofoletti
Other website: www.dolomitesstories.com
Based in Torino, Italy, but available everywhere.
Statement
Alessandro Cristofoletti is a photographer and writer based in Turin, Italy. His work moves between documentary practice and authorial research, investigating the relationship between people, territory, and the cultural forces that shape both.
Raised in the border landscapes of Trentino-Alto Adige, he developed an early sensitivity to places defined by tension — between nature and infrastructure, memory and transformation, the local and the global. This remains the gravitational field of his work.
His approach is grounded in direct observation and natural light, building visual narratives that move from detail to landscape, from portrait to context. Images are never isolated: they function as parts of a larger structure, where each element contributes to meaning. Beneath the documentary surface, his eye is drawn to the moment when reality reveals something unexpected — a crack in the ordinary, an irony embedded in the real.
Selected in 2023 for the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York, he has collaborated with the Wall Street Journal and developed long-term projects across Europe and the Arctic. His work has been exhibited internationally and published by Penguin Random House UK and Luleå University Press, among others.
He works on commission and on independent research, maintaining in both cases the same tension between fidelity to the real and the ability to catch the unexpected within it. The language shifts; the gaze does not.
Projects
2025 A filo d’acqua, communities of fishermen, hunters and lacemakers in the Venice Lagoon, for Fondazione Changes, with Ca’Foscari University, photography
2025 How Italy Feels — Trentino-Alto Adige, for Italy Segreta, photography
2025–ongoing Ground Shift, transformations of landscape, communities and imaginaries in Kiruna and the Arctic, photography and writing
2024–25 Census of National Rural Architecture, photography for ICCD project
2024 Happiness is not sitting on the couch doing nothing, for 1 in 6 by 2030, photography
2023 I’ll get somewhere if I go there, photography
2021–ongoing United by what separates, photography
2020–2021 Covisioni, photography
2016–2018 Dolomites Stories, writing and photography
2013 Il Brenta. I grandi sentieri delle Dolomiti UNESCO, video, photography, travel book
2010–2012 Unesco in bici, A cycling journey through Italy’s 44 UNESCO sites, documentary
Awards
2023 United by what separates, Best Portfolio 2023, Ragusa Fotofestival
2022 United by what separates, New Post Photography Award, MIA Photo Fair, Milan
Exhibitions
2026 Nordsee im Umbau, Bremer Zentrum für Baukultur, Bremen
2026 A filo d’acqua, Palazzo Braschi, Rome
2024 United by what separates, Ragusa Fotofestival, Best Portfolio Award 2023
2023 United by what separates, Fonderia 20.9, Verona
2022 The summer course, Poop photography, writing, artistic residency Portiolo Po
2022 United by what separates, New Post Photography, MIA Photo Fair, Milan
2021 Covisioni, SIFEST, Savignano sul Rubicone
2021 Covisioni, Festival Grenze, Bastione delle Maddalene, Verona
2020 Dolomites Stories, Grenze, Arsenali Fotografici, Verona
2019 World in progress, Centro Trevi, Bolzano
Publications
2026 How Italy Feels, Penguin Random House UK
2025 Towards An Arctic Assemblage, LTU Luleå University Press, Luleå
2021 Covisioni, collective project, Selfselfbooks
2013 Il Brenta — I Grandi Sentieri delle Dolomiti Patrimonio dell’Umanità, Curcu & Genovese Editore, Trento
Residencies
2025 Seasonal Borders, Luleå, Norrbotten Region
2023 Poop, artistic residency Portiolo Po
Workshops
2026 ICP Summer Intensive Program in Visual Storytelling, Camera, Torino
2024 Visioni sul territorio, with Fondazione Studio Marangoni
2024 How to communicate with Photography, with Erik Kessels, Magazzini Fotografici, Naples
2024 The Climbers, workshop on portraits, with Jim Harrington, Rovereto
2023 Eddie Adams Workshop, Eddie Adams Foundation, Jeffersonville, New York
2023 Territorio: teatro di relazioni, Ragusa Fotofestival with Massimo Siragusa, Ragusa
2023 Pratiche curatoriali nello spazio pubblico, Triennale Milano and Associazione On Image, Milan
2022 Milano oltre Milano: narrative architectural photography, with Filippo Romano, Milan
2016 Landscape stories: photographing the landscape, with Antonio Biasiucci, San Vito di Cadore