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 multiple 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, 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

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

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

2021 – Ragazze D’Italia at INTRANCE festival – Galatina ( LE) Italy

2018 Surfing Iran at ADDIS PHOTO FEST- Lagos, Ethiopia

2018 Surfing Iran at SSFF SKATE AND SURF FILM FESTIVAL – Milan, Italy 

2017 Colletivo Memorie at Circuito Off, FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA -Reggio Emilia, italy