Curriculum vitae

Courses in Italian academies of fine arts, invited lectures and seminars, and programme direction. Course titles are given in their official Italian form. Faculty pages: Perugia · Catania.

Academies of Fine Arts

• from 2025/26Tecniche e applicazioni digitali per la fotografia · Accademia di Belle Arti, Catania
  100 hours, 8 CFA · adjunct lecturer
• from 2025/26Fotografia · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  75 hours, 8 CFA · adjunct lecturer
• from 2024/25Fondamenti di informatica · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  34 hours, 4 CFA · adjunct lecturer
• from 2024/25Elaborazione digitale dell’immagine · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  125 hours, 10 CFA · adjunct lecturer
• 2024/25Fotografia – laboratorio di fotografia · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  50 hours, 2 CFA · adjunct lecturer
  second semester
• 2024/25Fotografia, orientation course · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  15 hours · adjunct lecturer
• 2023/24Computer Graphic · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  75 hours · adjunct lecturer

Lectures and seminars

• 2024–2026Un luogo bello, book presentations · nineteen venues across Italy
  among them Cortona On The Move, MIA Photo Fair, Fotografia Europea, Photolux Festival, New Old Camera, Officine Fotografiche — the full list is on the book’s page
• 13 June 2025Un luogo bello e il senso della fotografia di paesaggio · AIDIA
  module within the conference La Calabria di chi resta, di chi parte, di chi torna. RigenerazAzione di luoghi. Teorie e pratiche di rEsistenza
• 3 June 2025Photobook design · Accademia di Belle Arti, Catanzaro
  invited seminar, within the presentation of a photography festival
• 17 December 2024La rappresentazione del paesaggio urbano · Ordine degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori, Milan
  within the programme Fotografia di architettura e paesaggio urbano: la percezione dello spazio tra tecnica e visione
• 26 August 2023What should I look at · Grenze Arsenali Fotografici, Verona
• 16 June 2023Il libro fotografico e la fotografia di paesaggio · Fondazione Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria
  within the seminar Rigenerazione urbana, un modo nuovo di pensare alla città, with Alberto Ziparo and Alessandro Bianchi; on the project Un paesaggio di colore arancio
• 23 May 2023Book design and storytelling · EcoSuites, Tristinika Beach, Greece
• 9 February 2023Book design and storytelling · Columbia College Chicago, USA
• 23 May 2022Stampa fine art, una breve guida operativa, online seminar · Tau Visual, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi Professionisti
• 27 April 2021L’uso della fotografia sui social network · Lo Stretto Digitale, online
• 20 February 2020Creazione di sequenze e storytelling · Accademia di Belle Arti, Reggio Calabria
• 6 May 2019Creazione di sequenze e storytelling, online seminar · Tau Visual, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi Professionisti
• 29 April 2019Storytelling e fotografia di matrimonio, online seminar · Tau Visual, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi Professionisti
• 16 November 2018Seminario sul paesaggio · Università Mediterranea, Degree Course in Architecture, Reggio Calabria
  within the cycle Territori, architetture, città. Riflessioni dall’età antica all’età moderna
• September 2018Sul paesaggio · Festival Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto
• 25 June 2018Si fa presto a dire bianco e nero · Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria
• 14 March 2017Fotografare il paesaggio, due casi studio · Il cerchio dell’immagine for MiBACT
  for the first national Landscape Day
• 2016Storytelling e reportage · Leica Camera Italia and Tau Visual, Naples
• 29 June 2014Storytelling e reportage · Corigliano Calabro Fotografia

Courses, workshops and programme direction

• 2014 – presentPost-production workshops · Corigliano Calabro Fotografia
• 2022–2023Online photography courses, foundation and advanced · MUSA Fotografia, Monza
• 2021–2023Photography, within a digital marketing programme · Lo Stretto Digitale Academy, Messina
• Aug.–Dec. 2020Photography and printing · Cine Sud, Catanzaro
• Feb. 2020 – Apr. 2021Visual Design Manager (UX Designer), regional qualification programme, Calabria Region · Co.Me.S., Reggio Calabria
• Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2020EIZO Color Academy: colour management, fine art printing, storytelling · EIZO Italia
• 2016–2021Leica Akademie, workshops and seminars · Leica Camera Italia
• 2015–2018Director and lecturer, School of Specialisation in Professional Photography · Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria
  landscape photography, computing for photographers, workflow, advanced post-production, fine art printing
• 2013–2015Photography and post-production, workshops and seminars at events across Italy · Fujifilm Italia
• 2010–2019Lecturer, foundation to advanced courses · Corsobasedifotografia.it
• Feb.–Apr. 2009Editing and Compositing Video, national PON programme · I.T.I.S. “A. Panella”, Reggio Calabria
  50 hours
• Feb.–Jun. 2008Building and maintaining websites · E.S.E.F.S., Ente Scuola Edile Formazione e Sicurezza, Reggio Calabria
• Feb.–Jun. 2008ECDL programme, national PON F1 · I.C. Statale Gallina, Reggio Calabria
• Sep.–Oct. 2006Stage photography · Accademia d’Arte Drammatica della Calabria, Palmi

• 2026 Paths Self-published as a dummy · 22.5 × 31 cm · 84 pp. Alessandro Mallamaci, with tale IX from Racconti Greci di Roccaforte, gathered by Luigi Bruzzano and Ettore Capialbi and published in Monteleone in 1885 — printed in Grecanico with an English translation on transparent film
• 2026 Searching for Self-published as a dummy · 11.34 × 17 cm · 54 pp. Alessandro Mallamaci · English translation by Elizabeth Grech
• 2026 The Longest Sunset Self-published as a dummy · 31.8 × 45 cm · 44 pp. Alessandro Mallamaci and Silvia Bonaventura · English translation by Elizabeth Grech
• 2026 Un’ora immobile Self-published as a dummy — submitted to Art Paper Editions · 15 × 20.5 cm · 82 pp.
• 2026 Nel ventre caldo di Mana Ghe Dummy — edited collective photobook · 25 × 20 cm Caterina, narrative text by Gioacchino Criaco; Fotografare il mito, critical essay by Alessandro Mallamaci · English translation by Elizabeth Grech · proofreading by Elizabeth Grech and Mariadora Varano
• 2024 Un luogo bello Gente di Fotografia · Published, second edition · 14 × 20.85 cm · 120 pp. · ISBN 978-88-947614-7-4 In order: Alessandro Mallamaci; Corrado Alvaro, from L’amata alla finestra; Umberto Zanotti Bianco, from Tra la perduta gente; Saverio Strati, from La teda; Norman Douglas, from Old Calabria; an essay by Giovanna Calvenzi. English translation by Gail Mitchell
• 2024 Further Self-published as a dummy · 20 × 20 cm · 90 pp. Alessandro Mallamaci · English translation by Gail Mitchell
• 2024 La luna è un delfino Self-published · Published · 12 × 15 cm · 46 pp. Words by Gabriele Mallamaci
• 2024 Un paesaggio di colore arancio Self-published as a dummy · 20 × 25 cm Alessandro Mallamaci · English translation by Gail Mitchell
• 2015 Lisboa não é a cidade perfeita Self-published as a dummy

Monographs

• 2026Custodire memoria, fare impresa Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli ISBN 978-88-498-8762-4 · 144 pp. · a photobook: photographs by Alessandro Mallamaci, text by Gianfranco Manfredi, preface by Gianluca Gallo · commissioned by SudHeritage, the network of Calabrian company museums, within the interterritorial cooperation project Rete dei Musei di Impresa Calabria
• 2026Dettagli di impresa. Oggetti e identità della Calabria produttiva Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli ISBN 978-88-498-8761-7 · 144 pp. · edited and photographed by Alessandro Mallamaci, with a critical text by Chiara Ruberti · commissioned by SudHeritage, the network of Calabrian company museums, within the interterritorial cooperation project Rete dei Musei di Impresa Calabria
• 2024Un luogo bello Gente di Fotografia Edizioni, Modena ISBN 978-88-947614-7-4 · Italian / English · 120 pp. · photographs, texts and graphic design
• 2024La luna è un delfino Self-published Artist’s proof and an edition of 90 copies · second edition 2025 · words by Gabriele Mallamaci; photographs with Nicola Buonomo and Sabrina Condemi
• 2024Piccolo manuale teorico-pratico sulla fotografia di paesaggio Self-published ISBN 979-8333518514 · Italian · 120 pp.
• 2024Riflessioni in ordine sparso sulla fotografia Self-published ISBN 979-8345557310 · Italian · 84 pp.
• 2006I tamburi della Sila. Costruttori e suonatori dei Casali cosentini Squilibri, Rome ISBN 978-88-88325-04-0 · 142 pp. · text by Antonio Bevacqua, photographs by Alessandro Mallamaci

Contributions in edited volumes

• 2025Le città del futuro — Volume IV. Fotografia, Arte, Design Mariangela Cama, Alfonso Femia, Francesca Moraci (eds.) · La biennale dello Stretto II / 2024 · 500×100, Fondazione Le Città del Futuro ISBN 979-8298003438 · 388 pp. · vol. IV of IV · Italian / English / French · photographic project, Le tre linee d’acqua, pp. 148–157
• 2025Atlas of Ruins — Vol. 1 STH Press ISBN 979-12-81661-08-0 · 279 pp. · one photograph, Africo (2016), pp. 154–155
• 2023Le tre linee d’acqua. La biennale dello Stretto. Call to action Alfonso Femia (ed.) ISBN 979-8398454611 · 420 pp. · vol. II of III · photographic project
• 2020Inspiration Leica Akademie Rheinwerk, Bonn ISBN 978-3-8362-6973-5 · 343 pp. · photographs

Papers

• 2026Assets in Transition Educazione Aperta. Rivista di pedagogia critica — online, Primopiano, 19 April 2026 ISSN 2785-079X (online), 2532-3091 (print) · CC BY 4.0 · photographs and text, with Armando Perna · online contribution on the journal’s website, not included in the six-monthly issue
• 2025Summer Love. A photography project on the 2023 Cutro shipwreck Educazione Aperta. Rivista di pedagogia critica, no. 18/2025, Fotografia section; online 21 March 2025 ISSN 2785-079X · open access · text by Teresa O’Connell, photographs by Alessandro Mallamaci DOI 10.5281/zenodo.16789928

Photographs in scholarly publications

• 2025A scuola c’è sempre più bisogno di metodo storico Educazione Aperta. Rivista di pedagogia critica — Didattica della storia, 24 February 2025 ISSN 2785-079X · one photograph from Un paesaggio di colore arancio, in an article by Giorgio Cavadi DOI 10.5281/zenodo.16789218
• 2024G20. Le politiche economiche Marcello Minenna · Giappichelli, Turin, March 2024 ISBN 979-12-211-0572-8 · 304 pp. · AI-generated cover image and the preparation of the charts inside

Exhibition catalogues and yearbooks

• 2025Fotografia Calabria Festival 2025 — Radici Comuni: Luoghi Fourth edition, exhibition catalogue · Vanilla Edizioni · San Lucido (CS) ISBN 978-88-6057-658-3 · Italian / English · pp. 66–73 · photographs from Un luogo bello, text by Giovanna Calvenzi
• 2024Photolux Festival 2024 — Il bel Paese? Exhibition catalogue · Lucca ISBN 978-88-941326-8-7 · Italian / English · Intarget Photolux Award, «Raccontare l’Italia» · pp. 118–123 · photographs from Un luogo bello, text by Giovanna Calvenzi
• 2023Con e senza radici — With Roots and Without International art exhibition catalogue · FormicaLab, Cuneo Italian / English · 50 pp.
• 2023Lishui Photography Festival 2023 — Images Gather Possibilities Works collection · Lishui, China Chinese / English · 100 pp. · photographs from Un luogo bello
• 2018Corigliano Calabro Fotografia 2018 Exhibition catalogue · Corigliano Calabro (CS) Italian · 40 pp. · portfolio Reggio Calabria, note per un racconto, with Fabio Itri
• 2018Malta 2018 Exhibition catalogue · Leica Galerie Milan / Malta Tourism Authority Italian / English · 30 pp.
• 2012De Rerum Natura Group exhibition catalogue · Monogram Gallery, Rome Italian
• 2010Bovarché Country Vua Version X Group exhibition catalogue · Bova (RC) Italian · p. 52 · photographic work Agonia, 90 × 60 cm, 2009
• 2009Premio della qualità creativa in fotografia professionale 2009 Tau Visual, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi Professionisti — yearbook Selected author · Italian · p. 475 · “Mare binario”
• 2008Premio della qualità creativa in fotografia professionale 2008 Tau Visual, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi Professionisti — yearbook, second edition Selected author · Italian · p. 433

Portfolios and features in magazines

• 2025Un luogo bello Gente di Fotografia, Anno XXXI no. 84, March 2025 Photographs from Un luogo bello with a critical text by Giovanna Calvenzi
• 2025Giovanni Manoccio, la migration dans les veines M — Le magazine du Monde, 21 January 2025 ISSN 2118-8793 · one portrait, in an article by Camille Buonnano
• 2025Un luogo bello Katalog 36.1 — Journal of Photography & Video, Denmark, 2025, p. 96 ISSN 2445-5067 · the book, in the books pages · English and Danish
• 2024The uninhabited village LFI — Leica Fotografie International, 22 October 2024 One photo
• 2023Africo Artribune no. 75, November–December 2023 — Giro d’Italia ISSN 2280-8817 · photographic portfolio · text by Giuseppe Smorto, edited by Emilia Giorgi
• 2023En Calabre, les héros sont fatigués L’Obs, hors-série “Le pouvoir des mafias”, October 2023 ISSN 0029-4713 · photographic reportage, pp. 52–55 · text by Julie Déléant and Victor Le Boisselier
• 2023Dacia Duster 4x4 Giornale di Sicilia — Speciale Motori, 24 January 2023 Photographs
• 2023Alessandro Mallamaci Katalog 34.2 — Journal of Photography & Video, Denmark, 2023, pp. 34–37 ISSN 2445-5067 · portfolio · English and Danish
• 2022Un luogo bello LFI — Leica Fotografie International, 31 January 2022 Portfolio
• 2021Aqua, il drink restaurant firmato Nick Maltese AD — Architectural Digest Italia, 10 August 2021 Photographs · architecture by Nick Maltese Studio
• 2021Aqua, il ristorante è come un relitto in fondo al mare Area, 13 July 2021 Photographs · architecture by Nick Maltese Studio
• 2021A Q U A Archilovers, 7 June 2021 Photographs · architecture by Nick Maltese Studio
• 2021Conosci il tuo amico Foto Cult 178, February 2021 — Autori, pp. 56–59 Portfolio from Lisboa não é a cidade perfeita, in an author profile by Jessica Barresi
• 2018Libertà Berlin Quarterly, The Eighth Issue, July 2018 ISSN 2198-0039 · photographic portfolio, from p. 39 · text by R. Teresa O’Connell
• 2017Mafia Blues Society / Doolittle, hors-série “Transgression”, Autumn–Winter 2017 ISSN 2106-3230 · photographic reportage, pp. 124–131 · text by Margherita Nasi
• 2017La sagrestia della cattedrale di Gozo Be Earth — the Earth Viaggi blog, 16 June 2017 Photograph and text · Snapshots by Leica Akademie Italy
• 2016Alessandro Mallamaci BAGzine, 17 November 2016 Interview
• 2015Lisboa não é a cidade perfeita Riflessioni 35 — Centro Italiano della Fotografia d’Autore / FIAF · Portfolio Italia 2015 Italian · pp. 26–27 · text by Luigi Erba
• 20141¹⁰⁰ = 1 × 20 LiQmag no. 7 — L’induzione, 30 September 2014 (printed December 2014), pp. 61–69 Photographs from Lisbon, with a text by Fabiola Cosenza
• 2014I colletti bianchi comandano la ’ndrangheta Left Avvenimenti no. 18, 17 May 2014 ISSN 1827-5001 · cover photograph and reportage · inside as “La cupola invisibile”, pp. 14–17 · text by Rocco Vazzana
• 2013C’è chi crede nel cambiamento Credere no. 33, 17 November 2013 ISSN 2036-3958 · Photographic reportage, pp. 22–26 · text by Laura Bellomi
• 2013La musica non è finita Left Avvenimenti no. 44, 9 November 2013 ISSN 1827-5001 · photographic reportage, p. 29 · text by Rocco Vazzana
• 2013Cercavo denaro, ho trovato ben di più: speranza Credere no. 31, 3 November 2013 ISSN 2036-3958 · Photographic reportage, pp. 28–30 · text by Laura Bellomi
• 2013Che colore sto guardando? (2ª parte) Fotografia Reflex, November 2013 — Colore, pp. 66–67 ISSN 1594-2449 · one photograph (fig. 3, p. 67), in an article by Marco Olivotto
• 2013Fujifilm presenta Alessandro Mallamaci The Trip no. 18, winter 2013/2014, pp. 50–51 One photograph from U Stegg and a biography, in the «Fujifilm presenta» page
• 2010Urban loft È Lifestyle — living ISSN 2036-2609 · Anno IV, no. 12, Summer 2010 · pp. 56–59 · photographic reportage
• 2009Best practices È Lifestyle — factory ISSN 2036-2609 · Anno III, no. 9, Summer 2009 · pp. 42–45 · photographic reportage
• 2007Una musica che torna È Lifestyle — culture / jazz ISSN 2036-2609 · Anno I, no. 1, Summer 2007 · pp. 76–79 · photographic reportage
• 2007A cena da Fulvio È Lifestyle — degustibus ISSN 2036-2609 · Anno I, no. 0, Spring 2007 · pp. 108–109 · photographic reportage · text by Valeria Bellantoni
• 2007Color cioccolato, un’esperienza sensoriale È Lifestyle — idea ISSN 2036-2609 · Anno I, no. 0, Spring 2007 · pp. 24–26 · photographic reportage · text by Valentina De Grazia
• 2007Ritratto di uno stile È Lifestyle — Claudia Montesano ISSN 2036-2609 · Anno I, no. 0, Spring 2007 · pp. 20–23 · photographic reportage

Interviews and talks

• 2025NOC-WORK: Alessandro Mallamaci. Presentazione libro e workshop New Old Camera, Milan, 5 March 2025 Video introducing the book presentation at New Old Camera on 21 March 2025, and a workshop in Reggio Calabria announced for 13–15 June 2025 that did not take place
• 2024Un luogo bello The Leica Camera Blog, 4 November 2024 Interview
• 2024Alessandro Mallamaci. L’irrefrenabile desiderio di condivisione NOC Sensei — New Old Camera, 19 April 2024 Interview, in print and on video
• 2023Workshop “Sul paesaggio” Grenze Arsenali Fotografici OFF 2023 — Staunen, Verona, 9–10 September 2023 Two-day workshop
• 2023Un luogo bello Analog Magazine, 24 May 2023 Feature and interview
• 2021…la fotografia Phocus Magazine, 4 October 2021 Text by Alessandro Mallamaci
• 2020Attraverso i miei occhi: Guido Guidi Leica Akademie Italy — #Leicastaincamera, online class, 14 May 2020 A reading by Alessandro Mallamaci
• 2019Alessandro Mallamaci, Leica Ambassador OTTO Gallery, Rome — 23 May 2019 Talk, with Leica Store Roma
• 2019NOC-HELLO: corsobasedifotografia.it New Old Camera, 30 January 2019 Video interview
• 2018NOC-HELLO: ogni scatto necessita del suo tempo New Old Camera, 9 November 2018 Video interview
• 2015Tra reportage sociale e storytelling Tanti per tutti — FIAF / CSVnet, 14 August 2015 Interview

Photobook, solo and group exhibitions, prizes and selections. Catalogues and press coverage of the same shows are listed under Publications.

Photobook exhibitions

2026

• Gakuenmae Art FestaNara, Japan · with Paths
• Paper Photo Dummy Award 2026Paper Photo Festival, Zamek Sielecki — Sosnowieckie Centrum Sztuki · Sosnowiec, Poland · with Paths
• Photobook Award 2026Encontros da Imagem, Festival Internacional de Fotografia e Artes Visuais, Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva · Braga, Portugal · with Paths
• Fotolibros por el CambioPa-ta-ta Festival · Granada, Spain · with Un luogo bello
• Cosecha 2026XIII Fiebre Photobook Fest, Laboratorio de La Casa Encendida · Madrid, Spain · with Paths

2025

• Prémio Fotolivros 2025Encontros da Imagem, Festival Internacional de Fotografia e Artes Visuais · Braga, Portugal · with Un luogo bello

2023

• The performing photobookFormat International Photography Festival · Derby, UK · with Un luogo bello
• Back on the ShelfFilter Photo · Chicago, USA · with Un luogo bello

2022

• Belfast Photo Festivalspecially curated presentations featuring the photo-book winners of the 2022 International Open Submission · Botanic Gardens, Belfast, UK · with Un luogo bello

Solo exhibitions

2026

• PathsGakuenmae Art Festa · Nara, Japan

2025

• Un luogo belloFotografia Calabria Festival · San Lucido (CS), Italy
• Un luogo belloVoci in Aspromonte · Cataforio (RC), Italy
• Un luogo belloLe Gru · Valverde (CT), Italy

2024

• Un luogo belloPhotolux Festival · Lucca, Italy
• Un paesaggio di colore arancioLa biennale dello Stretto · curated by arch. Alfonso Femia · Campo Calabro (RC), Italy

2023

• Un luogo belloLishui Photography Festival · China
• Un luogo belloPaesaggi | Affinità e divergenze · FormicaLab · Cuneo, Italy

2018

• Reggio Calabria. Note per un raccontowith Fabio Itri · Corigliano Calabro Fotografia · Corigliano Calabro (CS), Italy

2015

• Lisboa não é a cidade perfeitaC.I.F.A. (Italian Centre for Author Photography) · Bibbiena, Italy

Group exhibitions

2026

• Rosarno: Capital of IntegrationVOICES High-Level Summit, EucA, 13–15 January 2026 · European Parliament · Brussels, Belgium · with Portraits
• PRIN CAT – Confiscated Assets in TransitionArchitecture and Design Department, Università Mediterranea · Reggio Calabria, Italy · with Assets in Transition
• ThaumázeinFotografia Europea OFF · curated by Taryn Ferrentino · Reggio Emilia, Italy · with The Longest Sunset
• MIA Photo FairTau Visual · Milan, Italy · with Un luogo bello

2025

• La notte della FotografiaPiacenza, Italy · with The Longest Sunset

2024

• Paris PhotoGalleria Valeria Bella · Paris, France · with Un luogo bello
• Ruthin International Arts FestivalNorth Wales, UK · with Summer Love
• MIA Photo FairMilan, Italy · with The Longest Sunset
• The Beauty in DecayThe Chateau Gallery · Louisville, Kentucky, USA · with Un’ora immobile

2023

• Eyeshot Open Call 2023Magazzini Fotografici · Naples, Italy · with Summer Love
• Art ExhibitionEcoSuites · Tristinika Beach, Greece · with Portraits
• Drive-inGalleria Valeria Bella · Milan, Italy · with Un luogo bello
• Con e senza radiciRoots Art Gallery · Pisa, Italy · with Un luogo bello

2022

• JæjaSÍM Residency · Reykjavík, Iceland · with The Longest Sunset
• The PhairGalleria Valeria Bella · Turin, Italy · with Un luogo bello
• La biennale dello Strettocurator arch. Alfonso Femia · Campo Calabro, Forte Batteria Siacci, Reggio Calabria, Italy · with Un luogo bello

2021

• Inside thingsGalleria Valeria Bella · Milan, Italy · with Un luogo bello
• Kaos Antithesis of Silence: form, space, timeorganised by the Superintendence of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Salerno and Avellino and Kaos 48 · Bourbon prison of Avellino, Italy · with Nel ventre caldo di Mana Ghe

2018

• Malta 2018Leica Galerie · Milan, Italy · curated by Alessandro Mallamaci with the Malta Tourism Authority · with Three days in Malta and Gozo

2015

• SI Fest OFFSavignano sul Rubicone, Italy · with The man who became God

2012

• De rerum naturaMonogram Gallery · Rome, Italy

2011

• “Off” circuit of Les Rencontres d’ArlesArles, France · with The man who became God

2010

• Projetenpromoted by Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano and Bovarché · Bova (RC), Italy · with The man who became God

Awards and selections

2026

• LonglistedFORMAT27 Open Call: PLAY, FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK — 948 projects submitted by 837 artists from 69 countries · with Un’ora immobile
• SelectedFotolibros por el Cambio 2026 at Pa-ta-ta Festival, Granada, Spain — the book enters the festival’s permanent library · with Un luogo bello
• SelectedPaper Photo Dummy Award 2026 exhibition, Paper Photo Festival, Sosnowiec, Poland — 31 publications selected out of 160 entries from 38 countries · with Paths
• FinalistPhotobook Award 2026 by Encontros da Imagem, Festival Internacional de Fotografia e Artes Visuais · with Paths

2025

• Special mentionPrémio Fotolivros 2025 by Encontros da Imagem, Festival Internacional de Fotografia e Artes Visuais · with Un luogo bello

2024

• WinnerRaccontare l’Italia — InTarget Award by Photolux Festival · with Un luogo bello
• Shortlisted166th International Photography Exhibition by Royal Photographic Society · with Un luogo bello
• WinnerElsewhere Ruthin International Arts Festival Open Call · with Summer Love
• ShortlistedFE+SK Book Award, promoted by Fotografia Europea festival and Skinnerboox · with Un luogo bello
• Winneralfabèto call F is for Fake · with Un’ora immobile
• ShortlistedAthens Photo Festival · with Un luogo bello
• WinnerThe Beauty in Decay Open Call by The Chateau Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, USA · with Un’ora immobile

2023

• SelectedLishui Photography Festival in China · with Un luogo bello
• ShortlistedSony World Photography Awards, professional / landscape category · with The Longest Sunset
• WinnerOpen Call PAESAGGI | Affinità e divergenze, organised by FormicaLab in Cuneo, Italy · with Un luogo bello
• WinnerOpen Call and selected for The performing photobook exhibition, curated by Francesca Serravalle at the Format International Photography Festival in Derby, UK · with Un luogo bello
• WinnerOpen Call and selected for the Back on the Shelf book exhibition at Filter Photo, in Chicago, USA · with Un luogo bello
• Semi-finalistEyeshot Open Call 2023 · with Summer Love
• Special mentionUrbanautica Institute Annual Awards · with Searching for
• WinnerWith or without roots Open Call · with Un luogo bello

2022

• WinnerInternational Open Submission by the Belfast Photo Festival · with Un luogo bello
• Bronze placementTokyo International Foto Awards · with Un luogo bello
• WinnerLightland Open Call, juried by Vittorio Storaro · with Limen

2021

• ShortlistedAndy Rocchelli Grant · with Un luogo bello

2020

• Special mentionUrbanautica Institute Annual Awards 2020 · with Un luogo bello

2015

• FinalistPortfolio Italia contest · with Lisboa não é a cidade perfeita

• 2021 – present Represented artist Galleria Valeria Bella, Milan Production and exhibition of author photography projects in gallery shows and art fairs. First exhibition with the gallery: Inside things, Milan, 2021; then Un luogo bello at The Phair, Turin, 2022; Drive-in, Milan, 2023; Paris Photo, Paris, 2024.
• 2007 – present Photographer, founder Alessandro Mallamaci Studio Photographic and video reportage; communication consultancy for companies.
• 2025 Photographer, research contract Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Department of Architecture and Design Six-month professional contract (12 June – 12 December 2025), scientific sector 08/CEAR-09 (formerly ICAR/14), within the PRIN 2022 PNRR project Confiscated Assets in Transition: from the Anti-city to the Third Heritage (P20224XL2H_001, CUP C53D23008560001), principal investigator Rosa Marina Tornatora. Won by public comparative selection, call 09/dAeD/2025, ranked first of the two appointees, 98/100. High-level technical and scientific collaboration on photographic elaborations across milestones 3 to 6 — survey and interviews, community workshops, visual analysis, narrative archive, co-design, dissemination. Delivered work (A.3.3 Visual Analysis): photographic documentation, on the ground and by drone, of ten confiscated properties along the SS106 in the municipality of Reggio Calabria, read against their geography of waterways, airport and the Strait; editing and the graphic layout proposal for the paper published with the project’s findings.
• 2023–2026 Administrative manager Regione Calabria Special unit of the Department for the Environment, State Holdings, Unitary Programming and Strategic Projects. Curated the commemoration of the Cutro shipwreck; photographic and video reportage and graphic design; wrote the unit’s operating manual; ran the S.I.R.D. (integrated management reporting system) and started the design of its new version, meant to link departments and show each director’s assignments on an automatically generated Gantt chart; minutes of meetings, staff training and management, office organisation. March 2023 – February 2026.
• 2021 Communication, social media management and visual design 5punto6 — Handmade in Italy, Parma Photographic album manufacturer. Social media strategy, brand communication, layout and graphics for the social pages, analytics, editorial planning, photo and video content, campaign management. June – December 2021.
• 2021 Social content creation, photography, video Casale Foti Reception venue. Architecture, kitchen backstage, food and table settings. April – July 2021.
• 2021 Social content creation, photography, video Aqua — drink in restaurant Time-lapse of the building site, interiors, kitchen backstage, staff portraits in photo and video, dish presentation. March – July 2021.
• 2021 Social content creation, photography, video Carolina Foti Wedding planner and boutique. Product photography and backstage. March – December 2021.
• 2020–2022 Photographer and videomaker Mediterranean Hospitality Management & Consulting Photography and video for the websites and social channels of Capo Vaticano Resort, Villa Paola and Baia del Sole.
• 2020–2022 Communication, social media content, photography, video Kalura Reception venue. Architecture, kitchen backstage, dishes and table settings.
• 2020 Social media management, visual design, management Cine Sud Srl Photography shop and online store. Design and optimisation of company procedures, process automation, staff management and training, e-commerce optimisation, content and live streams. August – December 2020.
• 2019 Communication, social media management and visual design Costa Viola Resort Reception venue. Social media strategy, brand communication, layout and graphics for the social pages, analytics, editorial planning, photo and video content, campaign management. June – September 2019.
• 2018 Curator Leica Camera Italia s.r.l., Milan Curated the exhibition Malta 2018 at the Leica Galerie, with the Malta Tourism Authority. January – March 2018.
• 2017–2018 Scientific consultant Ballandi Arts — Sky Arte Television production company. Teaching and support for the contestants of the talent show Master of Photography.
• 2016–2021 Brand ambassador Leica Camera Italia Communication and promotion of the Leica brand across Italy.
• 2014–2019 Founder, coordinator and printer Stampafineart.net Fine art printing laboratory. Post-production and museum-quality printing for authors, galleries and photography festivals.
• 2013–2019 Founder, president and director Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria Cultural association and photography education centre, founded in 2013 on the occasion of the festival La misura del paesaggio. Ran the organisation for six years: two photography festivals — La misura del paesaggio (2013) and Photopia (2016) — the three-year School of Specialisation in Professional Photography (2015–2018), a programme of foundation courses, and talks and workshops with established international figures in documentary photography, book design, post-production and fine-art printing, including Donald Weber, Massimo Mastrorillo, Filippo Romano, Federico Clavarino, 3/3, Marco Olivotto and Tommaso Bonaventura. Responsible for programme design, faculty coordination, budget, partnerships and communication. Teaching is listed on the Teaching page.
• 2013–2015 Ambassador Fujifilm Italia Communication and promotion of the Fujifilm brand; teaching in photography and post-production at events across Italy.
• 2013–2014 Videomaker Vlisco, Netherlands Documentary video on Vlisco for Africa, a tailoring school for women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 2013 Photographer Left Avvenimenti Commissioned assignments.
• 2013 Photographer Credere / Edizioni San Paolo Commissioned assignments.
• 2011–2012 Assistant photographer Miren Photographic agency. Studio, photography and post-production for Miss Italia and Miss Italia nel Mondo, 2011 edition.
• 2010–2019 Founder and project director Corsobasedifotografia.it A network of foundation photography courses run in 18 venues across Italy, with a shared teaching method and a team of instructors; from 2013 Il cerchio dell’immagine was its Reggio Calabria base. Teaching is listed on the Teaching page.
• 2009 Founder and member of the artistic direction SISMI Eventi | Vibrazioni | Movimenti, Reggio Calabria Cultural association. Co-founded the association and, as part of its artistic direction team, organised ReggioFotoGrafia (2009).
• 2007–2019 Founder and director Servizifotografici.net, later SF Storie, Reggio Calabria Photography agency. A team of around ten photographers and assistants working on commercial, editorial and event commissions; ran alongside the personal studio, which continues.
• 2007–2019 Founder, art director, photographer and visual designer Laboratoricreativi.net Communication agency. Social media management, visual design, video commercials, advertising campaigns, websites, corporate identity; full production cycle.
• 2006–2007 Art director and visual designer A&S Promotion, Reggio Calabria Communication agency. Advertising campaigns, websites, corporate identity, video, photographic reportage; ran the web department. November 2006 – May 2007.
• 2003–2006 Art director and visual designer ImageFactorStudio — Zone III Studio s.r.l., Cosenza Communication agency and photographic studio. Advertising campaigns, websites, corporate identity, video and photographic reportage; full project management. September 2003 – July 2006.
• 2003 Web designer Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria Graphic interface for the Icaro portal, the university’s orientation service.
• 2002 Occasional collaboration A.V.R. Video post-production. Fully computer-generated commercial for AquaStore, Roma Termini station.
• 1999–2001 Web designer and graphic designer Longo & Longo S.a.s. Web agency. Websites and company brochures.

• 1998–2003 D.A.M.S. (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo), indirizzo multimediale Università degli Studi della Calabria, Rende (CS) · 110/110 e lode Enrolled 16 October 1998, final examination 23 May 2003. The University’s own certificate states that the academic qualification awarded is a master’s degree, in compliance with MIUR decree 270/2004, art. 13, clause 7. Thesis: Il problema dell’usabilità dei siti web. Analisi di un caso esemplare, supervisor Prof. Raffaella Petrilli. Coursework in 2D/3D graphics, programming languages, web design, video editing and compositing, communication, multimedia publishing, radio and television language, film language, art history, psychology, sociology, semiotics.
• 1993–1998 Perito in elettronica e telecomunicazioni I.T.I.S. “A. Panella”, Reggio Calabria · 54/60 September 1993 – July 1998. School newspaper editing and layout, cd-rom authoring, graphics, video editing.

• 2018–2019 Corso annuale in business management SBL Smart Business Lab One-year private course in business automation and company management. Not a university master’s programme.
• 2017 Seminario di fotografia di paesaggio MAAD, Adria (RO) 23–24 September 2017, with Guido Guidi.
• 2015 Little big masterclass. Guardare-fare-pensare: breve corso sulla costruzione del libro fotografico in 3 fasi Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria 5 March – 17 May 2015, curated by 3/3.
• 2015 Private Micamera, Milan 17–18 January 2015, with Michael Ackerman.
• 2014 Ritratto grande formato e sistema zonale Officine Fotografiche, Rome 12–13 April 2014, with Samantha Marenzi and Manuel Guffanti.
• 2013–2014 Shooting from inside Officine Fotografiche, Rome November 2013 – June 2014, with Lina Pallotta.
• 2013 Il punto di vista del photoeditor. Dalle foto al racconto, dal portfolio alla professione Blueocean, Reggio Calabria 20–22 September 2013, with Marco Pinna.
• 2013 Color Correction Campus, second level Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria 20–21 April 2013, with Marco Olivotto.
• 2013 Come migliorare l’editing delle tue fotografie Borghi Solidali, Roghudi Nuovo (RC) 12–13 April 2013, with Ernesto Bazan.
• 2012 Post produzione avanzata e stampa fine art Villa Florio, Tropea (VV) 28–29 December 2012, with Antonio Manta.
• 2012 Color Correction Campus, first level Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria 15–16 December 2012, with Marco Olivotto.
• 2012 Photo editing: l’arte del distacco Photolux Festival, Lucca 8–9 December 2012, with Arianna Rinaldo.
• 2012 White campus. Correzione colore e post-produzione avanzata Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria 28–29 April 2012, with Francesco Marzoli and Marco Olivotto.
• 2011 Post produzione avanzata e stampa fine art Lamezia Terme (CZ) 18–21 November 2011, with Antonio Manta.
• 2011 Multimedia storytelling. Come usare la fotografia e il video per creare (e vendere) un racconto multimediale Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria 5–9 October 2011, with Filippo Romano.
• 2010 Raccontare una storia per immagini. La professione del fotografo contemporaneo in ambito editoriale Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria 1–5 May 2010, with Giulio Di Sturco.

• Photography Documentary, landscape and architectural photography, portraiture and interiors; studio and location lighting; commissioned and editorial work since 2003.
• Post-production and printing Colour management and monitor calibration, raw workflow and retouching (Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, Photoshop); fine art printing and print supervision for authors, galleries and festivals.
• Book design and publishing Editing and sequencing, typography and layout (Adobe InDesign), prepress and liaison with printers; independent publishing under the Quangle Wangle imprint.
• Video Documentary and commercial video: shooting, interviews, time-lapse, editing and colour grading (Adobe Premiere Pro).
• Curating and exhibition production Programming of exhibitions and photography festivals, artist and venue coordination, exhibition design, printing and mounting, catalogues; three festivals directed, exhibitions curated for Leica Galerie Milan.
• Management and communication Direction of cultural organisations, schools and training programmes: budgets, faculty and team coordination, partnerships and funding applications; communication strategy, social media management and copywriting; visual identity and graphic design (Adobe Illustrator); websites (HTML/CSS, WordPress, Hugo — this site); experience in public administration (Regione Calabria, 2023–2026).
• Teaching Course and curriculum design, lectures, workshops and long-term programmes in academies, universities and industry training; mentoring and portfolio review; online teaching.

• Italian Native speaker.
• English C1 Self-assessed against the CEFR. No certificate.
• French C1 Self-assessed against the CEFR. No certificate.

• Driving licence, category B
• Boating licence, category A