Lodovico Pignatti Morano

Lodovico Pignatti Morano was born in 1958 in Imola (Italy). Grandson of the photographer Guido Malagola Cappi. Son of an Italian diplomat. He grew up in South Africa, Austria and England, where at boarding school there was a dark-room, took his first steps in photography, and fell in love with it. In the mid eighties he returns to Italy, studies engineering at the University of Bologna for a few years, but discovers that photography is his true passion and it soon becomes his full time job. He has free lanced for various magazines. With time he has specialized in social photography, which has taken him around most of Europe and the United States. He has exhibited his work in various occasions and locations. He has been president of the photo club “Circolo Fotografico Bolognese” for the past 20 years. In 2011 he founded the contemporary art gallery “Galleria B4” in Bologna. He works and lives with his Austrian wife Gina in Bologna.