About

Chiara Negrello (born 1995) is an Italian documentary photographer and visual storyteller. Her work combines photography and video to explore themes of social justice, identity and resilience. While much of her work focuses on women’s experiences, she is interested in narratives that highlight dignity and agency in the face of inequality and change.

She graduated in Photography from LABA (the Liberal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence) in 2017 and from the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, where she attended online the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program as a Reuters Scholar in 2021.

Her work had been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Vogue, De Volkskrant, La Repubblica, Mare, NPR, El País, Marie Claire, Der Spiegel, Burn Magazine among others. She has exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions in Italy and internationally, including a collaboration with the OECD at the World Forum on Well-being, reflecting her interest in engaging with policymakers and contributing to discussions on social issues.

A member of Women Photograph, she has been nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (Newcomer) and received the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Fellowship for her work on the Ukrainian community in Italy.

Working between Italy and Southeast Asia, Chiara is primarily based in the region and regularly returns to Italy while developing personal and commissioned documentary projects and leading storytelling workshops.