Francesca Magnani, an Italian photographer, writer, and teacher based in Brooklyn NY, has shown her work in Italy, France, Canada, and the US.
Magnani’s work appears in severalbooks including Here is New York(Scalo Verlag, 2002), Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art (Taschen, 2010) and E.L. Doctorow’s All the time in the world (Random House, 2011).
Her exhibition entitled Every Seven Years, opened at NYU Casa Zerrilli-Marimò in New York City in 2004 and is available as a book.
Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York, ICP, Photoville, Aperture Gallery, The Italian Consulate in New York City, Women Street Photographers, The Brooklyn Public Library.
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History acquired Magnani’s images as part of the first set of multiplepandemic-related museum’s digital acquisitions.
Francesca Magnani’s stories have appeared on all major Italian publications, such as Repubblica, D Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera, Flair, Panorama, Marie Claire, F, Yoga Journal, Artribune, Exibart, Time Out New York, Il Sole 24 Ore, IL, Vanity Fair Italia, The Arte Newspaper.
Francesca was born in Padua, studied Classics in Bologna and came to New York on a Fulbright Scholarship at CUNY.
She teaches Italian and yoga and writes for different publications.
She loves the right light.
