Renata Ferri (Italy)

2009-03-17 22:27:47

Renata Ferri, Italy

Renata Ferri was born in Rome in 1964. She is a journalist, chief Picture Editor of Io Donna, the weekly magazine for women of Corriere della Sera, after

She coordinates the work of about 40 photographers who follow every national and international current affair; she takes care of the photographic projects, the organization of the journeys and the reports, the selection of new photographers, the editing and the relations with national and international agents and newspapers. In 1999 she adds to these activities the building of a vast online archive of the Italian photography.

Alongside her work she has always been teaching in specialized schools and universities.

She has been a member of many juries of photographic awards and has hold workshops in the best schools and the most prestigious Photo Festivals in Italy.

She has edited two photographic books, also writing the introduction: the first one was a report on Italian prisons, with a text by Adriano Sofri (Prisons, 2006), the second one was about the immigrants condition in Italy with a text by Gian Antonio Stella (Nero, 2007).

In the 2007 FotoGrafia Festival of Rome, she organizes a vast exhibition: Altri mondi at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere. It is about photojournalism in the last three decades seen through the work of the most important Italian authors.

In 2008 she joins the Reflections project, by Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret. She¡¯s been living in Milan since 2005 where she works as a Picture Editor, teaches at the Istituto Riccardo Bauer and follows photographic projects with several authors.