Giulia Frigieri About

Giulia Frigieri is an Italian documentary photographer and storyteller. Her work focuses on representation of youth, womanhood and exploration of identity throughout the MENA region and the Mediterranean area.

Giulia moved to London at the age of 19 and she undertook a BA degree in Anthropology and Media at Goldsmiths University and she lived for over six years. Her passion for portraiture and storytelling blossomed throughout university, motivating her the pursue of a proper career in photography in 2016 when she enrolled to a photojournalism program in Aarhus, Denmark at the Danish school of Media and Journalism.

Her work has been selected for awards such as Portrait of Humanity in 2019 and Single Shot award at Festival of Fotografia Etica in Lodi in 2019. Among her publications there are Italian and foreign magazines such as D la Repubblica, Huck magazine, i-D magazine, The Guardian, The Observer, Vogue Arabia, de Volkskrant, Aperture Foundation and British Journal of Photography.

Giulia has recently been awarded National Geographic Covid-19 fund grant and the 2021 Prix Revelation by the festival Face à la Mer in Tanger, Morocco.

AWARDS

Winner – Open Call Questa è la mia Terra, Fondazione Capri, 2023

Selected – 36 Shots About – Lomography + Perimetro Open Call 2023

Winner – Open call Paesaggi, Formica_Lab 2023

Winner – Prix Revelation Face à la Mer, Tanger Morocco 2021

Winner – National Geographic Covid-19 Emergency Fund Grant 2020

Winner – Single Shot Award, Festival della Fotografia Etica Lodi 2019

Winner – Portrait of Humanity ( book and exhibition ) 2019

Finalist – Lens Culture Portrait Award 2019

Selected – Nikon Noor Masterclass Turin, November 2018

Finalist – Portrait of Britain 2017

EXHIBITIONS