About

Jacopo La Forgia is a photographer and writer based between Berlin and Venice. He works across Europe on art and architecture commissions, exhibition documentation and long-term documentary projects.

As an artwork photographer and photo editor, he has collaborated with institutions such as Hamburger Bahnhof and Pergamon Museum (Berlin), La Biennale di Venezia, MAXXI (Rome), MOCA (Bangkok), among others. His photographs have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Monopol, Mousse Magazine, La Repubblica and Le Monde.

His documentary work has taken him from the landfills of New Delhi and the civil war in Kashmir to the Peruvian Amazon, post-genocide memory in Indonesia and wildfires in Calabria.

Trained in aesthetic philosophy at La Sapienza University of Rome, with a master’s thesis on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, he has published essays, short stories and reportage in magazines, newspapers and anthologies. He is the author of the short story collection Materia (Effequ, 2019) and contributed the essay Costruire il risveglio on the 1965–66 Indonesian genocide to the collective volume Trilogia della catastrofe (Effequ, 2020). In 2025 he will publish La vita privata degli animali, a new short story collection illustrated by Manfredi Ciminale.