Alessandro Manzotti Ferraro

“Photography is a way to belong and root to time and places”

Born in 1994 in Novara (Italy), I studied biology and sociology in Padua and Paris, while pursuing photography and political activism. Aspiring to have a positive impact on society, I decided to make environmental activism and photography my professions. Photography is my tool for changing the world and defending our only common home, planet Earth. Even without explicitly addressing ecological issues, my photographic projects have an essential environmental and ethical foundation. Ecology and lyricism come together to approach the themes of environmental crisis from a poetic and subjective angle. A single thread connects them: the sense of belonging to the place we consider our Home, origin and vault of memory, as well as a space that is a source of comfort and security, but also and above all the sense of distress we feel when this bond of belonging is broken. A place that is as much a physical space as an idea, a concept, the home of the Self and the spirit.