Folio 2022

Tommaso Parrillo is an Italian publisher and founder of Witty Books, a publishing house founded with the name of Witty Kiwi in 2012, that aims to promote photography and visual arts. Since 2016 he is also co-founder of JEST, an independent space dedicated to enhancing culture and photography in Turin . He also teaches photography in institutions as IED Torino, private school and workshops.

Giulia Boccarossa (Italy, 1995) is a graphic designer and illustrator. After finishing her classical studies she started her training as a designer. She graduated from the faculty of Industrial Design at the UNIRSM-IUAV University of San Marino, then she achieved a Master's Degree in Communication and Design for Publishing at ISIA in Urbino with a thesis entitled "Designer's role in the photographic publishing industry: the imprint of the graphic designer on the Italian Photo Book".

Her works have been shown in exhibitions such as the Santarcangelo Theater Festival (2019), the "Italia 90" exhibition organized by Condominio XYZ in Milan (2020), the Graphic Days in Turin (2021) and more recently "Il mestiere di grafico-oggi" at the Triennale, Milan (2022). With her books and illustrations projects, she obtained several awards and recognitions, amongst those the prestigious HISTORICAL BOOK AWARD 2020 by Les Rencontres d'Arles, a shortlist in the ADI Index Catalog 2020 in the Targa Giovani category, the Fedrigoni Top Award 2020, and an honourable mention at the 2020 Marco Bastianelli Award.

She collaborates with photographers such as Pino Musi, Lorenzo Leone and Stefano Cerio and with publishing houses such as Hatje Cantz and Witty Books.

Rocco Venezia is a visual artist and works as a curator for PhMuseum.

His project Nekyia is a book published by Witty Books in 2017, the monograph is part of the collection at the National Art Library of Victoria & Albert Museum in London. His latest work - Is Life Under The Sun Not Just a Dream - started in 2018 and developed under the European Program Parallel Platform, by which he has been selected as second cycle emerging artist. He has been nominated by VOID as one of the Futures Talents of 2021.

Next to his personal practice, Rocco works as a curator and producer for PhMuseum since 2017. Lately, he has worked on the concept and editing of the two collective publications by PhMuseum - Familiar Stranger (2020) and Inside (2021) and has served as photography curator for the PhMuseum Days International Photo Festival.

Lea Vene (b. 1987, in Zagreb, Croatia) is an independent curator, cultural anthropologist, and lecturer in Fashion Museology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb. Between 2013–2019 she has been a curator at the gallery Miroslav Kraljević in Zagreb and one of the organizers of ETNOFILm (Ethnographic film festival) where she curated film, exhibition, and educational programs. Since 2016 she curates exhibitions and programs for the International Photography Festival Organ Vida and, since 2019, for Gallery Močvara. She's a researcher at CIMO - Center for Research of Fashion and Clothing.

Melissa Catanese (b. 1979, Cleveland) combines her images with archival images into a fluid, sensorial experience that pushes the image beyond its nostalgic surface challenging ideas of authorship, representation, consumption, and the life cycle of images. She plays with images as raw material, intuitively teasing out oblique and guttural interpretations, tapping the inexplicable, and often dormant space within the surface of a photograph where meaning extends and recedes, comforts and disturbs. She is the author of "Dive Dark Dream Slow", "Dangerous Women", "Hells Hollow Fallen Monarch", and "Voyagers".

Her work has been included in the Mulhouse Biennial of Photography, NoFound Photo Fair in Paris, and at institutions including Light Work, Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Aperture Foundation, MoMA Library and ICP Library in New York. In 2021, Catanese was a remote artist-in-residence at Light Work. She is the recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, a BNY Mellon Individual Artist Gift and has been shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards and the Foam Paul Huf Award. Catanese contributed texts to “Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Shoot” (Aperture, 2021), “Photographers Looking At Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation” (Pier 24, 2020), The Photographer’s Playbook (Aperture, 2014) and to the project “Words Without Pictures” (Aperture, 2010), among other publications.

In his enigmatic images, Geert Goiris (b. 1971) confronts us with perplexity and alienation. In his work of recent years, Geert Goiris puts the predictive potential of images first. Photographic images are often understood as documents, traces of a past. In his series Prophet, World Without Us and Flash Forward, the photographer attempts to reverse this and present images as omens, foreshadowing something yet to occur.

His images are regularly exhibited at renowned art institutions such as Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (2007), Wiels Contemporary Art Center in Brussels (2010), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2010), Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg (2011), Le Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (NMNM) (2012), Museum M in Leuven (2013), the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago (US) and Centre Pompidou- Metz (2016).

His works are held in international institutional collections such as the Fonds national d’art contemporain (F), the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Caja de Burgos (ES), Fotomuseum, Antwerp (B), the Seattle Art Museum (USA) and MUDAM (L).

Geert Goiris has published seven monographic books with Roma publications Amsterdam: Czar Bomba, Lying Awake, Prolifération, Prophet, Peak Oil, 2020 and World Without Us. The artist is represented by Galerie Art: Concept in Paris (France).

Geert teaches practice-based research at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He taught as visiting lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, LUCA Brussels, CEPV in Vevey (CH), ISDAT in Toulouse (F), FH Bielefeld (D), and ENSP Arles (F) and MentorMentor in Gent (B)