Chiara Fossati

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Chiara Fossati (Legnano, 1984) trained as a photographer at Studio Fondazione Marangoni in Florence and at Goldsmith College in London, where she gained her Master in Photography and Urban Culture. In 2010 she joined Cesura as an intern and then became an official member few years later. In summer 2014, she took part in “The Danube Revisited: The Inge Morath Truck Project”, where she worked both as a photographer and a truck driver. Since 2017, she has been teaching History of Contemporary Photography at IED in Milan. In 2018, Chiara won with her project “Villaggio dei Fiori” the Marco Pesaresi Prize for Contemporary Photography and in 2022 the Ponchielli Prize Special Mention with her project “Comete!”. In 2021 she published with Cesura Publish her first book “Whatever” about old school rave party in Italy .