Filippo Brancoli Pantera

Filippo Brancoli Pantera (Italy, 1978) photographer whose work emerges at the intersection of visual inquiry and cultural reflection. He holds a degree in Cultural Heritage from the University of Florence (2004) and a Master’s degree in Cultural History from the University of Pisa (2025). In parallel, he studied stage photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan (2005) and documentary photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, where he attended the Documentary Photography Program (2008–2009; Director’s Fellowship awarded). After returning to Italy, he developed a long-term photographic investigation of the borderlands between city and countryside — the so-called “rurban” spaces — across France, Switzerland, and Italy, often working in dialogue with institutions and curatorial projects. His work has been presented in exhibitions at international festivals including Photolux (Italy, 2019), Photaumnales (France, 2022–2023), and in publications such as Toscana Interiore (NPS, 2020) and Le Beauvaisis (Diaphane, 2022). Since 2020, his practice has taken on a more ritual dimension, driven by the need to re establish a deep connection with the places we inhabit. By returning to the same subject day after day, subtle variations surface within an apparently uniform space, and photography becomes both a ritual act and a way of accessing the beauty that surrounds us.