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Bio

Carola Cappellari is a documentary photographer and facilitator whose work is rooted in autobiographical experiences, drawing inspiration from her life and those close to her to explore wider themes of identity, family, belonging, and migration. She views photography as a tool for co-creation, engaging in performances, installations, and collaborative practices. 

She graduates in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication in 2019, and in Human Rights, Migration and Paths of Intercultural Inclusion from the University of Bologna. In 2023 she earns a scholarship to attend the Jack London Photography School in Italy and is among the finalists at the Canon Student Development Programme with the project “Sons of the Sun”. In 2024 she is selected for the historical one-year “Bevilacqua La Masa” residency with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.  

Carola has lived and worked for several years in Türkiye, Albania, and Bolivia, and frequently partners with international NGOs and social enterprises to deliver participatory photography workshops that promote cross-cultural understanding, gender equality, and women’s empowerment.

Selected Clients

ActionAid, TIME Magazine, BBC Travel, Al Jazeera English, Middle East Eye, The New Arab, Mulieris Magazine, Huck Magazine, Q-Code Magazine, Nascer do Sol, Taaf Media, Oxfam International, IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, SGDD-Asam, Amal4Education, BeChild Ngo, Komuniteti Papa Xhovani XXIII, Marsea, Margate Bound, We Are Fuori Fuoco, Lensational, Qisetna.


Education | Residencies

2024-25 Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Bevilacqua La Masa, art residency

2023 Jack London School of Photography and Literature

2022 Fotofilmic Masterclass with Diana Markosian

2019 BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography - UAL London College of Communication  


Awards

Selected Exhibitions

2026 LiberFestival, Altamura, IT

2026 Granda Collective Exhibition, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia / Bevilacqua La Masa, Forte Marghera, IT

2025 YAP Festival - MeVe Memoriale Veneto Grande Guerra - Montebelluna, IT 

2025 Granda Collective Exhibition, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia / Bevilacqua La Masa Galleria San Marco, Venice, IT  

2025 Sarajevo Photography Festival - Sarajevo National Gallery - Sarajevo, BiH

2025 CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo - Venice, IT

2025 Artefiera Bologna, Bevilacqua la Masa - Bologna, IT

Printed Publications | Press 

2025 Laguna B Magazine - “Green Mead­ows of the Imag­i­nary Is­land: What does it mean to be Venetian outside the lagoon? A reportage by Carola Cappellari”

2025 C plus C Magazine - “Rebuilding Identity through photography. Interview with Carola Cappellari” Words by Ilona Prozorova

2023 TIME Magazine - “How the Turkey earthquake gave Syrians a taste of freedom”. Words by Stefania D’Ignoti 

2021 Foto Femme United - “Vulnerable Spaces”.  Words by Andrea Castillo

2020 Then There Was Us - printed edition

2019 Aesthetica Magazine, “Next Generation Photographers” Issue 90, Aug-Sept 2019


Talks | Teaching

2025 IED Torino - Personal presentation within the documentary photography course

2025 Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Personal Presentation 

2025 We Are Fuori Fuoco - Course on “Participatory Photography”

2025 We Are Fuori Fuoco - Course on “Photographic Self-Portrait: From Personal Expression to Documentation

2023-24 Lensational -  Photography Trainer's ‘New Perspectives’ photography programme for emerging women photographers from Ghana, Kenya, Trinidad and Tobago, Spain, Zambia, Guyana. 

2022 La Sapienza University of Rome - Talk Speak Up Jean Monnet Module on gender discrimination and violence I Rome, Italy

2022 Photojournalism Hub -  Talk “Human rights in Frame (Turkey)”, with Özge Sebzeci, Bradley Secker, Noemi Zaltron.

2022 AIYD Turkey - Coordinator PhotoLab on photography and storytelling involving Syrian teenage girls, with a focus on gender equality and women's rights | Gaziantep, Turkey.

2022 GAFSAD - Personal Presentation | Gaziantep, Turkey

2021 SGDD ASAM - Coordinator Photography Workshop involving Afghan, Syrian, and Turkish women | Gaziantep, Turkey

2021 BeChild NGO - Coordinator PhotoLab Workshop involving 12 Syrian refugee children | Gaziantep, Turkey