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FILIPPO MENICHETTI

Filippo Menichetti was born in Florence in 1986. In 2009, after graduating in Psychology at "La Sapienza" of Rome he decided to entirely embrace photography. After a year traveling between the United States, Europe and Asia he attended a master's degree in photojournalism and reportage to the Scuola Romana di Fotografia in Rome. There he approached large format photography with a project on the urban landscape ("Ostia", 2010) directing his gaze to the interactions between man and his environment. He has collaborated with documentary photographer Giuseppe Moccia to the realization of "A Third Landscape?" a research on the abandonment of ski’s infrastructure in northern Italy. In 2012 he founded the collective PanAut with other authors of the Danish School of Media and Journalism where he graduated with "What Remains - meditations on a landscape", produced on the West Coast of Denmark. In late 2013 he moved to Naples (IT), where he begin the collaboration with the photographer and video maker Martin Errichiello. From 2015 he start a visual research on the recent history of Calabria region, in southern Italy, that will become the project "In Fourth Person", realized together with Errichiello. From 2018 he lives and works in Paris.

Books by Filippo Menichetti
IN QUARTA PERSONA