Benedetta Donato
Photography critic, editor and curator, she deals with exhibition and publishing projects within visual culture.
Benedetta is the Director of the Romano Cagnoni Award – International Photojournalism Award and she is a member of the Romano Cagnoni Foundation Board of Directors.
In 2010 she has been included in the list of Expert Consultants of the ICCD – Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione del MiC – Ministero della Cultura (Central Institute for the Catalogue and Documentation of the Italian Ministry of Culture).
Since the same year she is president of pianoBI. Since 2012 she has been a member of Progetto Donne e Futuro (Women and Future Project), for which she represents the Women and Art section.
Among the different organizations and entities with she collaborated: the production company Giart for the Fotografia Italiana documentary film series, distributed by Contrasto; Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Treccani for which she worked on the Contemporary Japanese Photography section, included in the publication Enciclopedia dell’Arte Contemporanea, 2021 (Enciclopedia of Contemporary Art); Nikon Italia and Corriere della Sera newspaper for the series “Accademia di Fotografia”, 2022 – 2023.
She has also curated several exhibitions and edited many photographic publications, including: Maurizio Galimberti Paesaggio Italia, Portraits, Francesco Faraci Malacarne, Angelo Ferrillo 258MINUTES, Giuseppe Mastromatteo Humanscape, Nicola Tanzini TokyoTsukiji, AA.VV. #18Esplorazioni Palermo Italian Capital of Culture, Alberto Gandolfo Quello che resta (What remains), Romano Cagnoni La Rivelazione Umana (The Human Revelation), Adriano Nicoletti Approdo, Iole Carollo, Out of Africa, Nicolò Filippo Rosso Exodus, AA.VV. A Soft Gaze At Intimacy and many other.
In 2021 she won RESET Call for Papers, promoted by Sistema Festival Fotografia, launched as part of the 2020 competition notice Strategia Fotografia of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity (DGCC) of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC).
Portfolio reviewer, member of the jury in international events, she is among LOBA – Leica Oskar Barnack Award nominators.
Since 2015 she is contributing editor at IL FOTOGRAFO Magazine.
