Agnese Morganti is a freelance documentary photographer based in Italy. 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.
Agnese graduated from Libera Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence with a BA in Photography (2009) and from the University of Westminster with an MA in Photojournalism (2010). 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 were selected for multiple 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. ‘Made in Italy’ was the award-winning result of this experience.
This ongoing documentary work about the the Chinese community in Italy has been published in Italian magazines, ‘Its China’, ‘A’, ‘Terre di Mezzo’, L’Espresso’, and ‘IoDonna’.
This ongoing documentary work about the the Chinese community in Italy has been published in Italian magazines, ‘Its China’, ‘A’, ‘Terre di Mezzo’, L’Espresso’, and ‘IoDonna’.
Slideluck is a global no-profit organisation whose mission is to create community through food & art. Slideluck has brought multimedia art shows to over 75 cities around the world featuring over 10,000 artists. Slideluck is free and open to the public. The event will be a community potluck followed by a slideshow featuring 20 selected artists working in Photography & Mixed Media.
As an official partner of the first edition of Slidesluck Prato, we showcase five photo series among the shortlisted works.-
Prato, once a model Italian city famed for its textile industry, entered a steep and dramatic decline in the 1980s. But as the final act of Prato’s industrial revolution played out, a new actor — the Chinese migrant — arrived from
Wenzhou to breath life into this most Italian city. Today, Chinese businesses occupy abandoned industrial buildings and families live in unoccupied homes in a large area that is known as Chinatown. The local Italian community view their Chinese neighbours as unwelcome intruders and illegal Chinese workshops as blights on Italy’s proud industrial heritage.
Chinatown Lookbook focuses on Chinese youth and their use of fashion as a tool for the exploration of self-identity.
This work stems from my sense of belonging to an area that is today considered derelict and a no-go area by a large part of the Italian community. Exploring the stories of a global generation and looking for beauty where no one else can see it allows us to chart a community’s evolving fashion identity in an unlikely border town between East and West.