Giulia Frigieri is an Italian documentary photographer living and working between France and Italy.
Throughout her portrait based work, she explores themes such as teenagehood, subcultures and identity blending documentary and fashion. By capturing the stages of growing up through an intimate relationship to her subjects and the slow approach of film photography, she seeks to create a delicate and truthful portraiture of modern youth.
In her personal work, she’s also particulary interested in investigating life of kids living in remote and hostile areas such as small islands or active volcanos and exploring their relationship with homeland and identity.
Giulia moved to London at the age of 19 where she undertook a BA degree in Anthropology and Media at Goldsmiths University and where she lived for over seven years. Her passion for portraiture and storytelling blossomed throughout university, motivating her the pursue a proper career in photography in 2016 when she enrolled to a photojournalism program in Aarhus, Denmark at the Danish school of Media and Journalism. Since then she lived in Rabat, Rome, Paris and Marseille where she's now based.
