Filippo Brancoli Pantera

Born in Lucca in 1978, Filippo Brancoli Pantera is an Italian photographer whose work emerges from the intersection of visual observation and cultural reflection. He earned a degree in Cultural Heritage from the University of Florence (2004) and a Master’s in Cultural History from the University of Pisa (2025). In 2008, he moved to New York City to attend the Documentary Photography program at the International Center of Photography (ICP), where he received a scholarship and worked as a teaching and field assistant alongside master photographers such as Frank Fournier and Joshua Lutz. In 2010, he returned to Italy and began a collaboration with artist and friend Massimo Vitali. In the following years he developed a long-term visual exploration of the borderlands between city and countryside — the so-called “rurban” spaces — across regions of France, Switzerland, and Italy. Since 2020, his practice has taken on a new dimension. In an era of frantic pursuit of the new, he slows down and repeatedly returns to the same subjects, cultivating a connection that grows deeper, more sustained, and almost ritualistic. Any subject, if observed at length and repeatedly, reveals aspects that a cursory glance will never capture. This approach challenges contemporary consumerist trends and transforms the act of photography into a moment of listening and contemplation.