Domenico d’Alessandro
(1985 Foggia, Italy)
Lives and works in Bologna
Domenico d’Alessandro (Foggia, 1985), graduated in International Relations and photography, since many years he is investigating the generative threshold of the image and its language through multiple practices, working solo and in collective. He experiments with translation practices of representations phenomena, with conceptual and theoretical research processes both documentary and staged, up to manipulating processes of matter. After graduating in International Relations at l’Orientale, in 2013 he obtained a Master in Photography in Rome at Scuola Romana di Fotografia. Subsequently d’Alessandro is the assistant of Agostino Iacurci, maturing an interest that concern not exclusively the photographic aspects of the image. Selected by Priz de Levallois in 2017, he is on display at La Gallerie de La Escale (Paris), Base (Milan) and Gibellina Photo Road (Sicily) with the collective projects “Boundary as a Frame” and “Creations”. In the past works the aspect of documentation is strongly present, contrariwise in “Apparences” the process does not focus on technical expedient or on conceptual conjectures but towards an aseity due to the intolerance towards the photographic medium. The use of tools such as video equipment or scanners is part of the research that he is now doing and which involves the use of elements that fits the space between the photographer and what is photographed.
Education
2013. BA Politic Science, International Relationship, L’orientale, Naples, IT
2015. Research Scholarship “Universität Hamburg”, Cultural Studies, Hamburg, DE
2017. MA Politic Science, international development and cooperation, L’orientale, Naples, IT
2018. MA Reportage e Photojournalism, Scuola Romana di Fotografia, Rom, IT
2018. Workshop, ISSP International Summer School of Photography, Taiyo Onorato, Kuldiga, LT
2018. Workshop, Door Academy, Federico Clavarino, Rom, IT
2018. Workshop, Door Academy, Ricardo Cases, Rom, IT
Exibitions
2017. ISSP exibition. Group exibition. Kuldiga, Latvia
2017. Boundary as a Frame curated by “Festival della Letteratura Mediterranea”, open air solo show, Lucera, IT
2017. Boundary as a Frame, Galerie de l’Escale, curated by Fanny Escoulen, solo show, Levallois-Paris, FR
2016. Creations, Gibellina PhotoRoad International Open Air & site specific festival, solo show, curated by Arianna Catania, Gibellina-Sicily, IT
2015. Tre elementi, Galleria d’arte Merlino. commissioned solo show, Firenze, IT
Grants & Awards
2022. Fresheyes talent 2022, 100 greatest emerging photographers of Europe selected by GUP magazine
2016. Prix du Public al Prix Levallois pour la jeune creation photographique internationale with Boundary as a frame, winnner https://www.prix-levallois.com/fr/concours/prix-levallois-2016/preselect/111
2016. POPCAP-PRIZE AFRICA ’16 with Mish muskila, shortlisted, Morocco https://www.capprize.com
2016. Gibellina PhotoRoad ’16 with Creations, open air international photo fest, Call for an Open Air Exhibition, winner https://www.imagesgibellina.it/past-editions
2013. LensCulture’s new and emerging photographers 2013 with Just another President, winner https://www.lensculture.com/ddalessandro
Curatorship
2017. “5 ipotesi di ricerca su se stessi” Palazzetto dell’arte Andrea Pazienza, Exhibition, Foggia https://www.ilmattinodifoggia.it/news/foggia/34357/foggia-la-psichiatria-in-mostra-cinque-ipotesi-di-ricerca-su-se-stessi.html
Interview
The British Journal of Photography, the portrait issue https://issuu.com/apptitudemedia/docs/issuu_10.15_bjp/6
ID Vice France https://i-d.vice.com/fr/article/wjnxdw/la-frontire-est-un-cadre-dpasser
Ardesia Project https://ardesiaprojects.com/BOUNDARY-AS-A-FRAME
Kioskofdemocracy https://kioskderdemokratie.blogspot.com/2016/06/boundary-as-frame-rumore-pair-italy.html
Maps Mediterraneo Magazine printed version
Features & Talks
2018. Phest, Seminario di presentazione del processo di creazione di “Boundary as a Frame” https://www.phest.info/edition-20162018
2018. F.Project, 2018″Seminario di presentazione dell’attività artistica “Lavoro in collettivo”.https://www.pugliain.net/bari-si-sente-ancora-lodore-degli-acidi
2016. Gibellina PhotoRoad, Seminario https://www.imagesgibellina.it/past-editions