Alessandra Calo

Alessandra Calò works and lives in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Artist and photographer, she has been experimenting from the beginning of her career the use of new languages that allow her to deepen her grasp of themes related to memory, identity, and to the language of the photography itself. The dominant theme in her work is “recollection”: a state of mind combined with reality and not simply a nostalgic evoking of the past.
She is passionate about old print photographic processes (silver salts, Van Dyke Brown, Cyanotype).
She has participated in exhibitions and festivals in Italy and abroad such as Festival Circulations in Paris, Les Rencontres in Arles, SI Fest in Savignano, Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia and Open House in Rome. She has realized several self-published photobooks and some of her artworks have been presented in specialized magazines.
In 2018 she was pronounced the winner of the Prix Tribew publishing reward within Circulations festival 2018, in 2017 she was also awarded with the Honorable mention at the IPA International Photographic Award and in 2016 she won the installation category of the Combat prize.
In October 2018 the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid is going to dedicate her a personal exhibition fo...

2018
El Jardin Secreto by Italian Cultural Institute - Palacio de Abrantes, Madrid
Kochan curated by Floriane Facchini and Thierry Ruffieux - Forum Meyrin, Geneva
Kochan - Circulations Festival de la jeune photographie - Le104Paris, France
2017
Secret Garden curated by Francesca Orsi for Open House -
ROAM Gallery, Roma
NDT No Destructive Testing promoted by NegPos Gallery,
curated by Patrice Loubon - University of Nîmes, France
2016
Fotoscopia curated by Guido e Daniela Giudici - Galleria Cons Arc, Switzerland
2015
Fotoscopia curated by Irene Russo, Fotografia Europea Festival - Parmeggiani Museum, Reggio Emilia
Diplopie promoted by Fontaine Obscure Gallery for Voies Off - Atelier C, Arles, France