Agnese Morganti
Photographer @ self-employed / Based in Prato, Italy
Agnese Morganti (Jan 12th 1985) is a freelance documentary photographer based in Italy and the UK. Agnese’s photography concentrates upon the intersections between identity, culture, and physical space. Her work has received...
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Focus:
Photographer, Photojournalist, Video Editor, Documentary, Multimedia, Video
Skills:
Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premier, Multimedia Production, Photojournalism
About
Agnese Morganti (Jan 12th 1985) is a freelance documentary photographer based in Italy and the UK. Agnese’s photography concentrates upon the intersections between identity, culture, and physical space. Her work has received critical and mainstream praise and has been featured in publications and photography websites in Italy, Europe, and worldwide.
From 2011 to 2013 Agnese worked as a staff photographer for ITS China, a Chinese-Italian bilingual magazine published in Florence and distributed nationwide. This role helped to forge her very strong bond with the Chinese community in Italy, whose life and stories Agnese is still documenting today. She also worked as tutor and lecturer in Digital Photography at Libera Accademia di Belle Arti from 2012 till 2015.
In 2015, Agnese’s work was selected for the Asia-Europe Foundation’s ‘On The Go’ exhibition; the Corigliano Calabro Photography Festival; and was shortlisted for the Marco Pesaresi Award at the SI FEST in Savignano sul Rubicone and the Portfolio Italia Award. Her work was shown at the 10b Photography gallery in Rome and, most recently, her multimedia projects WAVES, CHINATOWN LOOKBOOK and Storie di Quartiere have been showcased at Slideluck events in Italy and abroad.
In 2014, Agnese was selected as one of the ten brightest emerging Italian photographers to attend FRESH!, a year-long programme that supported documentary projects on contemporary Italian issues. In 2017 she was awarded the Storytelling Grant by FotoRoom and elected as the recipient of a bursary to attend the Anzenberger Masterclass 2017/2018 in Vienna to work on her project about majorette culture in Italy.
Agnese regularly undertakes commercial assignments and is also a photography and video producer and consultant from creative brands in the fields of textile and fashion production, cultural institutions and museums in Italy.
Agnese is also the co-founder and creative director of Human Atlas, a charitable organisation that documents remarkable and under-reported stories from human communities across the world. Human Atlas believes that storytelling is inherently relational and can build understanding, empathy, and humanity that other forms of cross-cultural communications struggle to achieve. As such, Human Atlas’ work engages disadvantaged communities through participatory photography and workshops; helps tell others’ stories through photojournalism and multimedia; reaches out to a global audience in events, exhibitions, and conferences; and remembers fading community memories through archival documentation.
From 2011 to 2013 Agnese worked as a staff photographer for ITS China, a Chinese-Italian bilingual magazine published in Florence and distributed nationwide. This role helped to forge her very strong bond with the Chinese community in Italy, whose life and stories Agnese is still documenting today. She also worked as tutor and lecturer in Digital Photography at Libera Accademia di Belle Arti from 2012 till 2015.
In 2015, Agnese’s work was selected for the Asia-Europe Foundation’s ‘On The Go’ exhibition; the Corigliano Calabro Photography Festival; and was shortlisted for the Marco Pesaresi Award at the SI FEST in Savignano sul Rubicone and the Portfolio Italia Award. Her work was shown at the 10b Photography gallery in Rome and, most recently, her multimedia projects WAVES, CHINATOWN LOOKBOOK and Storie di Quartiere have been showcased at Slideluck events in Italy and abroad.
In 2014, Agnese was selected as one of the ten brightest emerging Italian photographers to attend FRESH!, a year-long programme that supported documentary projects on contemporary Italian issues. In 2017 she was awarded the Storytelling Grant by FotoRoom and elected as the recipient of a bursary to attend the Anzenberger Masterclass 2017/2018 in Vienna to work on her project about majorette culture in Italy.
Agnese regularly undertakes commercial assignments and is also a photography and video producer and consultant from creative brands in the fields of textile and fashion production, cultural institutions and museums in Italy.
Agnese is also the co-founder and creative director of Human Atlas, a charitable organisation that documents remarkable and under-reported stories from human communities across the world. Human Atlas believes that storytelling is inherently relational and can build understanding, empathy, and humanity that other forms of cross-cultural communications struggle to achieve. As such, Human Atlas’ work engages disadvantaged communities through participatory photography and workshops; helps tell others’ stories through photojournalism and multimedia; reaches out to a global audience in events, exhibitions, and conferences; and remembers fading community memories through archival documentation.