New Solo Show: Alpine Hiatus: The Snow No Longer Tastes Like Snow by Filippo Poli

I’m a photographer specialized in narrating the built environment and landscape, I studied architecture at Milan Polytechnic, ETSAS Sevilla and UPC Barcelona (MArch). After the graduation I worked as an architect and I was involved as curator in the exhibition “Post-it City, occasional urbanites” presented at CCCB in Barcelona and in other international venues.  Meanwhile I was unconsciously photographing buildings during my architecture trips.

In 2008, I quit my job and I decided to follow my passions: photography, architecture and travel, the result of this decision are the architectural and landscape photography that you are visiting in this website.

I work on commission for architecture offices, companies and institutions and I’m always seeking for new collaborations for book projects, exhibitions and researches. I also develop personal projects focused on architectural and landscape photography; the last is on colonial architecture of the Roças of São Tomé and Príncipe.

My photo essays regularly appear on architecture, design and lifestyle magazines such Wallpaper, Architectural Record, Abitare, Mark, Domus, Baumeister…, and have been presented in books by Phaidon, Taschen, Actar and newspapers like Corriere della Sera, El Pais, La Vanguardia, …

In 2019, one of my works was presented in the exhibition "Conciencia2" organised by the Ministry of Development of Spain and Enaire during the Climate Summit (COP25).

In 2018 I participated to the contemporary art fair ARCO Madrid, where I presented a project commissioned by the Contemporary Photography Collection of the Enaire Foundation to document the harbor area of Santander.

In 2017, I have been selected to show the project “Roças of São Tomé: an [almost] lost treasure” at PhotoEspaña in Madrid in the exhibition “Infinito Interior” in the spaces of the Instituto Cervantes. In the same year I presented my work at Fundació Vila Casas and at Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt.

In 2017 I won the st award in the photography prize organized by Fundación Enaire (ex Aena), I was commended for the European Architectural Photography Prize Architekturbild, I was nominated at Fine Art Photography Award and I got a mention at IPA prize.

In 2015 I got an honorable mention at Monochrome Awards, in 2014 I won the third prize at PX3 Paris photography awards with a work on the social housing “Walden 7” by R.Bofill and a mention for the series “Durmitor Park”. In the previous years, I got mentions at IPA prize, Photography Master Cup, Philadelphia Basho Award and in 2012 I won the ArchTriumph International Architectural Photography Award.

I participated to collective exhibitions in Italy, Spain and USA and in 2015 I was one of the ten Italian photographers invited to take part to the exhibition “Architettura Sintattica” on Milanese Modern Architecture organized by the Expo Architecture Pavilion.

In 2014 I was invited to Venice Biennale to present a work on Asnago Vender architecture in the exhibition “Innesti Grafting” at the Italian Pavilion curated by C. Zucchi. In the same year my photos of the utopian city Zingonia accompanied the research by AOUMM and M. Biraghi presented at “Monditalia” curated by R. Koolhaas.

In 2012, the magazine of Lombardy Institute of Architects commissioned me a monographic issue on the mutation of anthropized landscape in this region.