About

email: jacopo.laforgia@gmail.com
whatsapp/telegram: +39 3923615551

Jacopo La Forgia graduated in Aesthetic Philosophy at La Sapienza University with a master’s thesis on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
He lives in Berlin and works between Germany, France and Italy, as an artwork and documentary photographer, author, editor, translator and copywriter.
In the past, he also worked as an exhibition manager, researcher and cultural mediator at the Venice Biennale and other institutions.
As an artwork photographer, he collaborates and has collaborated with some of the world’s leading institutions including Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Pergamon Museum (Berlin), La Biennale (Venice), MAXXI (Rome), MOCA (Bangkok) et al.
As a documentary photographer, he published photo reportages on the New Delhi landfill, the Indian Himalayas, the civil war in Kashmir, the wildfires in Calabria, the Indonesian genocide of 1965-66, cocaine trafficking and illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon.
His photographs are regularly featured in publications such as Art Forum, Art Review, Cura, eFlux, Frieze Magazine, ilReportage, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Le Monde, Monopol, Mousse magazine et al.
As an author, he wrote essays, short stories and reports that appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies.
In 2019 he published the short story novel Materia (Effequ, Florence); in 2020 he published the essay Costruire il risveglio, on the Indonesian genocide of 1965-66, in the three-voice book Trilogia della catastrofe (Effequ, Florence).