Benedetta Ristori

Location

Rome, Italy

Biography

Benedetta Ristori is a freelance photographer currently based in Rome,Italy. Her work is focused on the tension between a form and the space it takes and where it’s contained by. In 2014 she was interviewed by the magazine Vanity Fair in the Emerging Photographers section. In 2015 Benedetta was one of the finalist of the ‘Next Photographer Award’ by D&AD in partnership with Getty Images. In 2016 one photo of her project “Lay Off” was the winner of the People category in the 16th Smithsonian Magazine photo contest. The same year her project “Lay Off” is published by Vogue Italia, Ignant, Il Muro, Positive Magazine and others. In 2015 she begin the series ‘East’ ended in 2018. The project is published on VICE, It’s Nice That, Freunde Von Freunden, The Space Magazine, The Calvert Journal. In 2017 she was one of the 100 creatives chosen to represent the Lazio region in the annual initiative “Lazio Creativo 2017”.  In 2018 she self-published her first book “East”, from the homonymous series, in a limited edition of 180 copies. Her works are exposed in various international exhibitions.