Born in Milan, Italy

Lives and works in London

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Exhibitions

2025 THE LONDON GROUP ANNUAL  2025 - RWS Gallery, London

2024 polyphonie - fotodiskurs 10th year anniversary Group Exhibition, Augusburg, Germany

Symbiosis III - Brighton Photo Fringe Phoenix Art Space, Brighton

Stillness in Movement - London Group Exhibition, Bermonsey Project Space, London

Unseen Amsterdam - Open Doors Gallery, Westergas Amsterdam

Schatten haschen - 30 May - 6 July - Three persons exhibition with Barbara Beyer & Marie-Therese Ross Swiss Cottage Gallery, London

Exhibition Text Writing without words…’ by Aliki Braine.

Photo London - Open Doors Gallery, Somerset House

Symbiosis II - 15-18 May 2024 - Group exhibition organised by London Alternative Photography Collective - Curated by Melanie King, Ky Lewis and Hayley Harrison, Four Corners, London

Komorebi - Group show - Curated by Paola Formenti. perlartecontemporanea, Hotel de la Paix, Lugano (to Autumn 2024)

Symbiosis - Group exhibition organised by London Alternative Photography Collective - Curated by Melanie King, Ky Lewis and Hayley Harrison,

Hundred Years Gallery, London

2023 Photosensitive - A Cyanotype Exhibition- Curated by Nadège Mériau and Tom Norris, Milton Gallery, St. Paul’s School, London

The London Group Open 2023 - Copeland Gallery, London

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023 - Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London

Porous Light - A Group exhibition on experimental, Alternative Process Analogue Photography - Curated by Wendie Hardie

Navigator Chapter 1: methods of documenting a journey - Group show curated by Yi Dai and Gabriel Mansfield, Fitzrovia Gallery

Study Reading Room - The Sustainable Photobook Publishing (SPP) network , Format Festival, Derby

Open Doors Gallery pop-up group exhibition, KOKO, Camden

Beyond Silver - Group show curated by London Alternative Photography Collective, The Hive, Birmingham

2022 Undercurrents - Solo Show - Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

AA2A Artists Work in Progress Showcase - Buckinghamshire New University

2021       All&Some - Group Show, with Barbara Beyer, Hiromi Fukikoshi RC and Marie -Therese Ross

                 Atmosphere - Solo Show, Gallerie F&deO, Madrid, Spain

                Ashurst Emerging Art Prize Shortlist Group Exhibition, Ashurst's Emerging Artist Gallery, London

               'I didn't lick it' - Group Exhibition, Bruton Correspondence School, Bruton Museum, Somerset 

2020      You and Yours I jdc +1 Group Exhibition - jdc Fine Art, Online

               Photo London Digital - Open Doors Gallery

               Imagining an Island - Open Call Exhibition, Online - curated by Rosalind Blake and developed in 

               collaboration with University of the Highlands and Islands, and Taigh Chearsabhagh

               Beauty in Imperfection - Open Call Group Exhibition - Reclaim Photography Festival, LightHouse 

               Media Centre, Wolverhampton

2019      The Light Runner 180 - Open Call Group Exhibition - an international competition and exhibition on            

               analog photography - Baoku Art Centre, Shanghai Tower, China

           Suche nach Schönheit - Open Call Group Exhibition of selected works - Fotofestival Lenzburg 2019, Switzerland

2018      sporenland ‘ - solo show with counterpart work by Heinrich Schildknecht (1874 - 1959) at fotodiskurs, Augsburg , Germany

2017      Making It Real - a festival exploring how analogue photographic, filmic and audio processes interact with 

            digital technologies - hosted by London Alternative Photography at Ugly Duck, London  

           Burning with pleasure #3 - artists' book exhibition - curated by archipelago at Seen Fifteen Gallery,  London 

        Hariban Award 2017 - Shortlist

2016       fragments - a darkroom exhibition: artist residency exhibition, Fortismere School, London

2015       Kinokophonography Night - a curated sound cinema event featuring audio works Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

        The JHB Archive: 23/1961 or 28/1961 - Open Call Group Exhibition curated by Jo Gane, BOM  (Birmingham Open Media)

2014       Photography as Installation - LCC MA Photography Alumni group exhibition, Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London

            Repetitions, Retracing, Relapses - Mean Time Collective exhibition and workshop, Double Negative,  London

          ArtWorks Open 2014 - Open Call Group Exhibition of selected works

2013    MA Photography 2013 Final Exhibition, London College of Communication

              SEE - self-published newspaper of contemporary photography The Underground Gallery, London

2009       A Retrospect - group exhibition of drawings, Burgh House, London

2005       Signifiers’ - solo show, Foundry, London

2004       Rafts - solo show, Foundry, London

2000       Sitting on a Branch Wiggling My Toes’ - solo installation show, Moira Expositieruimte, Utrecht, the  Netherlands 

1999       Things to Come - group show, Moira Expositieruimte, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Education

2013     M.A Photography, London College of Communication, London

1997     M.A Fine Art Japanese Painting, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan      

1995     HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands                                               

1994     B.A Fine Art Japanese Painting, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan  

Commission and Residencies

2021-2022    AA2A Buckinghamshire New University

2020    FT Weekend - The River - A Photography Special 

2017 - 2018    AA2A University of Hertfordshire 

2014 - 2016    Fortismere School, London

Scholarships and Grants

2016    a-n Professional Development Bursary

1997    Pola Art Foundation (Japan), Artists' Grant                                        

1995    The Netherlands’ Government Scholarship (NUFFIC)

Works in Publications

2024 Redwood Magdalene, Sporenland in Multi Multi - Photoworks Annual 31, edited by Diane Smith

2024 Redwood Magdalene 2021-2023 in Back to Basics - A guide to ecological Photo Chemistry by CuriosoLab and The Sustainable Darkroom

2023 Thresholds in Underworlds by Stephen Ellcock - Published by Thames and Hudson

2022 Pink Full Moon in England on Fire by Stephen Ellcock and Mat Osman - A Visual Journey through Albion’s Psychic Landscape - Published by Watkins

2021   (Copy) 80. The Schwarze Mönch - Self-published

2020    FT Weekend - The River - A Photography Special 

2018    Sayako Sugawara  sporenland  - fotodiskurs 11 Exhibition Publication.  Edited by Wolfgang Mennel and Christof Rehm

2017   (Copy) The Schwarze Mönch - Dummy Book

2012    SEE - self-published newspaper of contemporary photography, Brighton Photo Fringe Festival     

Collections

Public and Private Collections in BE, DE, JP, NL, U.K, U.S.A