Her photographic practice takes an interdisciplinary and research-based approach. Her work explores interconnected themes, such as the sense of belonging, kinship, and the memory of people and places. She uses photography to recreate social relationships through signs, symbols, and gestures. She holds a master degree in Philosophy, cum laude, from the University of Bologna, a master degree from the Academy of Fine Arts, a master degree in Law, and specializations in Administrative Sciences and in Digital Archives. Her work is included in a number of collections and she has exhibited in Italy and abroad.

EXHIBITIONS

• Tabling Emotion, a collaborative curatorial project, The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation + R Gallery, Malta, July-August 2025

• Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print. !950 - present, Contact Gallery, 1st May - reading room exhibition - June 2025, Toronto, Canada

• Mise en Scene. Immagini e libri dalla collezione Donata Pizzi. A cura di Luca Panaro. Palazzo del Duca, Senigallia - collective exhibition - 17th May - 2nd November 2025

• MONUMENTI IMPROBABILI/UNLIKELY MONUMENTS - Istituto Storico Parri - Art Bologna City 2024

• A PLACE TO LIVE. Focus Artphilein, Lugano, Switzerland, 21st September - 30th November 2023

• CIVILIZATION. The WAY WE LIVE NOW. Saatchi Gallery, London, 2 nd June - 23rd September 2023

• TAKE ME TO LIVE WITH YOU. A Social Family Album. Blue Sky Gallery , Portland, Oregon, US,  December 2021

• Scolpite - Donne Fotografe - Palazzo Reale, Milan - July 2021

• (Re) Framing our Identities, Art City/Arte Fiera 2020, Camera del Lavoro di Bologna

• (Un) Framing our Identities, RPS, Old Telephone Hub, London, May-July 2019

• LARES FAMILIARES, Italian Cultural Institute, London, 21st March - 30 April 2019

• THE FAMILY of NO MAN, Cosmos, Les Rencontres de La Photographie, Arles, 2nd - 7th July 2018

• NAPOLI TRA SPIRITUALITA' E DESIDERIO DI RISCATTO/LARES FAMILIARES, MLB Home Gallery, Ferrara, 29th September - 22nd October 2017.

• FENOMEN FOTOLLIBRE, CCCB, Foto Colectania, with the photobook AVREI POTUTO ESSERE IO/IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME, Barcellona 17th March - 27th August 2017

• PRENDIMI A VIVERE CON TE/TAKE ME TO LIVE WITH YOU, Fondazione Carlo Gajani, Art City, Bologna, January 2017, testo di/essay by Roberta Valtorta.

• LARES FAMILIARES, Museo Archeologico di Napoli. Exhibition curated by Marco De Gemmis e Gerry Badger. 6th November - 8th December 2016.

• ARCHEOLOGIE FAMILIARI/FAMILY ARCHAEOLOGIES, Uncertain States Annual 2015. Mile End Art Pavilion, London, November 2015.

• AVREI POTUTO ESSERE IO/IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME, Monument to the Bologna massacre 2nd August 1980/Stazione Alta Velocità di Bologna/High Speed Train Station at Bologna, 31st July - 15th September 2015.

• LAST PORTRAIT'S PORTRAITS. Photomonth East London. St John on Bethnal Green.  London 7th-19th October 2014.

• PREMIO ARTE 2013. Milano, Palazzo della Permanente - dal 24 al 27 ottobre 2013.

• OBIETTIVO CANESTRO. Bologna, Palazzo Comunale. Manica lunga. dal 5 al 21 giugno 2013.

  EDUCATION

  • Academy of Fine Arts (Bologna)

  • Law (University of Bologna)

  • Philosophy (University of Bologna)

  BOOKS

  • UNLIKELY MONUMENTS. Excerpt from the catalogue. Tosca Press, 2024

  • LOOKING FOR MY DAUGHTERS. A book of Love and Worries, Artphilein Editions, Lugano, 2022

  • TAKE ME TO LIVE WITH YOU. A Social Family Album, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2021

  • LAST PORTRAIT, Tosca Press, London 2019

  • LARES FAMILIARES, booklet, Giannini Editore, Napoli, 2016 

  • ARCHEOLOGIE FAMILIARI/FAMILY ARCHAEOLOGIES, artist's book, 2015

  • AVREI POTUTO ESSERE IO/IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME "monumento portatile" "portable monument" self published, 2015, about 2nd of August 1980 Bologna massacre (85 copies for 85 supporters/15 artist's proofs). Each copy has an original print, signed and numbered

  • RITRATTI DELL'ULTIMO RITRATTO. Danilo Montanari Editore 2013. Edition of 100 + 30

  LAST INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS AND STUDIES

• Inhabiting Memories : Photography and Domestic Interiors in

  Take Me to Live with You, Flavia Matitti, in OIKOGRAPHY

  Homemaking through Photography,

  Ali Shobeiri & Helen Westgeest (eds.)

  Leiden University Press, 2025

• Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Prints. 1950 -Present, 10 x10 Photobooks, New York City, 2024

• Best Face Forward. Some thoughts on Portrait Photography, Gerry Badger, Prestel, 2024

• “A Place to Live” - Matteo M. Paolucci - Cahier n. 6 - Artphilein Editions - Paradiso, Switzerland

• “Looking for My Daughters” - Photobook Journal, Review by Gerhard (Gerry) Clausing, 2023

• “Take Me to Live with You” - PhotoBook Journal, Review by Gerhard (Gerry) Clausing, 2022

• We Are, the RPS Women in Photography Magazine, issue 2, 2022

• Contested Memories and Acts of Counter-Commemoration as Temporary Utopian Spaces in “Conversations on Utopia. Cultural and Communication Practices”, Raffaella Baccolini, Peter Lang Verlag, 2020

• Looking into Death: Trauma, Memory and Human Face,  Patrizia Violi, 2022