Lorenzo Pesce was born in Rome in 1973. In 1992 he moved with his family to the United States and for the following ten years divided his time between Los Angeles, London and New York. In the first years of his stay in the USA he discovered his passion for photographic art and cultivated it by dedicating himself to the in-depth study of the technique and poetics of photography, aiming to always put the search for a personal style. He studied at the Art Center college of Design in Pasadena, CA where he graduated In 2001 and began creating reportages for travel magazines and advertising campaigns.
In 2003 the prestigious American magazine PDN (Photo District News) mentioned him as one of the 30 young emerging photographers. He returns to live permanently in Rome and joins the Contrasto photographic agency.
Winner of numerous awards, his work has been published and exhibited all over the world, and he has signed advertising campaigns for high-profile clients both in Italy and abroad.
He teaches portraiture at IED at RUFA and other institutes.Based in Rome, Italy.
2020. Among the finalists of the Ponchielli award
2014. PDN photo annual best website winner
2003. PDN’s30
2022. “The beauty of the familiar”, Galleria del Cembalo, Rome
2021. “Tunnel”, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome.
2017. “Doors of Tomorrow”, Center for Openness and Dialogue, Tirana (Albania)
2017. “Immagini Indifese”, Spazio Contemporanea di Brescia, (Italy) 2017, “Your eyes are full of salt”, Hotel Corona, Rome (Italy)
2015. “Mediterranean, photographs between land and sea”, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence (Italy)
2013. “Altagamma italian contemporary excellence”, Shanghai Italian Center, (China)
2013. “Altagamma italian contemporary excellence”, Triennale di Milano, (Italy)
2011. “150 springs with stone”, in the main squares of the following cities Turin, Bologna, Verona, Rome, Genoa, Florence, Naples, Catania, (Italy)
2009. “Berliner jargang 89”, The House of Love and Dissent, Rome (Italy)
2009. “The absent gaze”, Representative Hall of the Provincial Administration, Taranto (Italy)
2008. “Migrart: the faces of the new Milan”, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, (Italy)
2007. “Beijing in and out”, Triennale di Milano, (Italy) 2007, “Movement/Emotion”, Provincial Exhibition Halls of Corso Garibaldi, Pordenone (Italy)
2005. “Eurogeneration”, Museum of Rome in Trastevere, (Italy)
2004. “Eurogeneration”, Palazzo Reale, Milan (Italy)
2001. “American Chiaroscuri”, Granma, Rome (Italy)
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