About

Chiara Negrello (1995) is an Italian freelance photographer and Canon Ambassador. She graduated in photography from LABA, Liberal Academy of Fine Arts, in Florence in 2017. After working as a freelance photographer for a few years, in 2020-2021, she attended (online due to the pandemic) the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York, supported by the scholarship awarded by Reuters.
In April 2021, Chiara became a member of “Women Photograph,” and in October of the same year, she was selected for the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIV. As a storyteller, Chiara focuses on capturing personal moments from the lives of people facing inequality and injustice. Through her photos and videos, she aims to inspire empathy and encourage viewers to think about our shared humanity. Chiara’s focus by doing so, is to reach policymakers and relevant institutions, with the goal of bringing the experiences, needs, and challenges of individuals to their attention. She believes these perspectives are essential for informing policy decisions and hope that visual storytelling can help shape more inclusive and thoughtful policies for our communities.
Her work has been published by The New York Times, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Vogue, De Volkskrant, D la Repubblica, Mare, NPR, El Pais, MarieClaire, Der Spiegel, Burn Magazine, Focus, among others. Chiara’s projects have been exhibited in both solo and group shows in Italy and internationally, with her most recent exhibition realized in collaboration with the OECD at the 7th World Forum for Well-being.
In March 2022, Chiara was nominated as Newcomer for the Leica Oskar Barnack, and in June of the same year, she was selected as the recipient of The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Fellowship to support her project about the Ukrainian community in Italy.
Chiara became an Ambassador for Canon in 2023. She is currently developing personal and commissioned projects and teaches photography and multimedia storytelling seminars at high schools and at Jack London, a literature and photography school. She has also held educational programs in partnership with Canon Italy and Europe.
Chiara is currently based in the Philippines.