Ivan Bignami

I would like photography to show me what is in front of me but I have not yet noticed, the action I do every day without realizing it, the place I often get close to but I have not yet noticed, that apparently insignificant detail...
I began my journey with photography in 2012, attending some courses at the Mohole School in Milan and wedding photography workshops that led me to work alongside some wedding photographers as an amateur.
I thus understood that I wanted to remain an "amateur" in order to experiment with photography in those fields that strike my imagination.
For example, using staged photography, I began to investigate some aspects of relationships in the family context, the theme of social masks or those we wear for ourselves. At the same time, I became passionate about architectural photography and urban photography, fascinated by marginal and border places, approaching it with the attitude of the Baudelairean flâneur in some series or, in others, thinking of Calvino's Invisible Cities and the dystopias of science fiction of the 50s and 60s. All work in progress.

Mainly self-taught, some photography courses at the Mohole school in Milan, some years of experience as a 2nd photographer with some wedding photographers in Brescia and Bergamo.

Exhibitions and Prize:
- Annual Photography Awards, February 2025.
First place in the "People: culture & lifestyle" section.
- Exhibition of "Incomunic-abili (un caffè insieme)" presented on April 16, 2024, at the Rita Levi Montalcini Library in Dalmine, as part of the 2023-24 Dalmine cultural festival, with the reading "Incomunic-abili" curated by the Circolo dei Narratori, featuring readings of passages inspired by the photographic series on display.
-Personal exhibition "Incommunic-abili - Un Caffè Insieme" at the National Museum of Photography in Brescia from 11/09 to 03/10/21
-Participation in Paratissima15 art fair, Turin from 30/10 to 3/11/19 with the "Incomunic-abili" project, presented in the collective Human Touch curated by Laura Pieri and Paolo Lolicata, who win the best exhibition in the section New Independent Curatorial Experience.
-Participation in the 2019 Milan Photofestival
  with the series "Passaggi", exhibited from 21 May to 1 June at the Valvassori-Peroni library
-Participation in the 2018 Milan Photofestival
  with the "Incomunic-abili" series, exhibited from 12 June to 26 July at the Valvassori-Peroni library
-Premio Arte Laguna 2018 finalist and participation in the collective exhibition held at the Ve...