Luca Campigotto

Luca Campigotto is one of Italy’s leading landscape photographers.

Discover the life, most iconic photographs, and must-see exhibitions of photographer Luca Campigotto.

Luca Campigotto was born in Venice in 1962 and lives in Milan and New York.
After earning a degree in Modern History, with a thesis on travel literature in the age of the great geographic discoveries, he turned his focus to landscape photography, completing projects all over the world.

Campigotto created the 2014 Epson calendar and the 2016 GEO Special-New York calendar.
In 2015, he received the Hemingway Prize for best photography book.

A dedicated writer as well, his poetry has appeared in Nuovi Argomenti, and his writings are collected in the volume Disoriente.

Campigotto’s work has been the subject of exhibitions at numerous museums and institutions, including:

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Somerset House, London; Galleria Gottardo, Lugano; IVAM, Valencia; The Art Museum and The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami; Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA, Montreal; MOCA, Shanghai; Venice Art Biennale (1997, 2000, 2011), Doge’s Palace, Fortuny Palace, and Zen Palace, Venice; MAXXI, MACRO, GNAM, Museo del Vittoriano, National Institute for the Graphic Design, and Festival of Photography, Rome; Royal Palace, Palace of Reason, and Science and Technology Museum, Milan; MART, Rovereto; European Photography, Reggio Emilia.

The exhibition "Luca Campigotto. Wandering Europe" is a new chapter in the project "La Grande Fotografia Italiana" curated by Roberto Koch, which began in 2022 with the exhibition of Lisetta Carmi (Suonare Forte), continued in 2023 with Mimmo Jodice (Senza Tempo), in 2024 with Antonio Biasiucci (Arca).