Biography, as a photographer
Nausicaa Giulia Bianchi is a documentary fine-art photographer interested in portraiture, visual narrative and bookmaking. Her work has been published in the past on many publications such The Guardian, National Geographic, Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, PDN, TIME, American Photo Magazine, Vogue, Huffington Post, La Repubblica, Internazionale, and other magazines and books. Her photography projects have been exhibited internationally as exhibitions, screenings and installations at festivals, galleries and museums such ICP Museum in NYC, PhEst festival, Organ Vida festival , BFF festival, IMP Festival, Fonderia 20.9 gallery, etc..
In 2010 she attended the PJ program of The International Center Of Photography in New York City, but developed beyond the confines of photojournalism and find her own path of image making. After completing her photography studies, she enrolled at the Art Students League to study oil painting and started attending classes in philosophy, feminism, art and aesthetics in Brooklyn. Giulia assisted photographers such Mary Ellen Mark and Suzanne Opton, and later began teaching and freelancing in NYC.
She employed a long-format documentary practice with an immense project about Women Catholic Priests who have been ex-communicated by the Vatican because they disobey a law that says that only a male can be ordained priest. Since 2012 she have visited 35 communities across United States, Canada and Colombia. Her goal is to create a book and a web documentary with videos, audio interviews, archival material, essays, and photos ans she’s seeking collaborations with universities, writers and publishers.
She also embarked on complex and ambitious collaborative projects involving many different types of image-making procedures, poetry and memoir. She tells stories with words, drawings, photos and videos investigating invisible aspects of reality such memory, spirituality and feminism. Among others: in 2015 she lived one year in Israel and Palestine to work on her “A lesser geography of the Holy Land”, and in 2017 she journeyed through the Alps in Trentino (Italy) to document the rests of World War 1, a war that is forgotten by young people, in the attempt to re-activate collective memories through storytelling.
Currently she is living in Italy in a small village with her dogs Miro and Vera. She’s growing experience with 8x10 large format in her darkroom and learning how to make daguerreotypes. She’s started a big project on Death Education.
She’s also writing her first novel.
DOCUMENTARY
In 2023 I’ve been featured in a documentary on Sky Arte / Now TV in Italy.
Documentary Clip
THE INVISIBLE, 29m
is a documentary by director Francesco Raganato, produced by Omar Cristalli for Sky Arte.
To screen the documentary or feature it in festival galleries schools etc., please contact me directly.
Biography, as a director
Nausicaa Giulia Bianchi has been an hard working member of the photography community through teaching, mentoring, curating books and exhibitions for over 15 years.
She’s the founder and president of IDA ETS cultural association offering photography courses and workshops and building a photography community.
She’s the founder and director of TSATM, The Soul and The Machine independent two years program on authorial photography
She’s teaching photography in several schools and associations, among them: University of Padua - photography for Creative Art Therapies, Camera Torino, IMP Photojournalism program and International Center of Photography (New York City).
She’s been mentoring over a hundred young photographers in the last five years curating several books and exhibitions, among them: Emma Vitti published by L’Artiere and Pierluigi Ciambra 89books .
She’s curating a photography residency program for IDA ETS and LeSerre in Udine with the participation of 48 photographers from Italy and Europe in a three years timeframe.
She’s interested in photography as a tool to investigate reality. A conscious representation in photography can shape our understanding and feeling towards others, photography should break stereotypes and challenge unjust systems of power. In particular she’s drawn to works that lay at the intersection between documentary and fine arts.
She does not see photography as a self-referential practice, but rather as a field in constant dialogue with other forms of knowledge — including philosophy, theology, history, ethology, psychology, etc.
She’s curating a personal channel with readings about photography, art and literature in italian.