• Lorenzo Maccotta

Stories

Do No Evil

‘This morning a fine idea came to me.' 'Let’s hear it.' 'I thought of making myself a beautiful wooden Marionette. It must be wonderful, one that will be able to dance, fence, and turn somersaults. With it I intend to go around the world, to earn my crust of bread and cup of wine. What do you think of it?'

Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio

Shamba Shape Up

Launched in 2012 by The Mediae Company, Shamba Shape Up is today East Africa’s most watched and longest running agricultural TV series, broadcasted in both English and Swahili on Kenyan, Ugandan, Zambian and Tanzanian national TV stations, as well as streamed on social medias with a total 2.2 million viewers claimed.

Megachurches

If Christianity is on the wane in the West, the African continent appears today as its world’s future largest pool of faithfuls: indeed by 2060 40% of the global Christian population will be resident in Sub-Saharan region where Pentecostal and Charismatic churches are attracting the greater numbers with a form of Christianity believing that faith can bring wealth and benefits, cure through divine miracles and improve the lives of the faithful through prayers, a rigid morality, tithes and donations. During a two months stay I photographed the daily life in the places of worship of the major Pentecostal- Charismatic churches of the Republic of Ghana.

Portfolio

maccotta_portfolio2021_003 A 3 years old child listening to fairy tales from a tablet in his family apartment. Republic of Korea, Seoul, 2015
maccotta_portfolio2021_006 Mattia, 3 years old, in the apartment where he lives with his family. Rome, Italy, 2018
maccotta_portfolio2021_027 A camera for streaming lessons to universities oversea in a class of the SNU (Seoul Nationa University). Republic of Korea, Seoul, 2015
maccotta_portfolio2021_011 View of Adda river. Trezzo sull'Adda, Milan, Italy, 2017
maccotta_portfolio2021_001 "Festa della Cuccagna" along the Naviglio Grande. On the occasion of this traditional festival, the men challenge each other in the task of collecting the Italian flag and bringing it back to the ground. Robecco sul Naviglio, Milan, Italy, 2017
maccotta_portfolio2021_020 A view of Idroscalo. Linate, Milan, Italy, 2017
maccotta_portfolio2021_014 Air collection and treatment pipes at the Bresso Niguarda depuration plant. Bresso Bresso/Niguarda, Milan, Italy, 2017
maccotta_portfolio2021_030 The final collector of the purifier that flows into the Lambro river. Peschiera Borromeo, Milan, Italy, 2017
maccotta_portfolio2021_008 View of a farm. Mediglia, Milan, 2017
maccotta_portfolio2021_002 University of Bologna: view of the Chiostro di Santa Cristina. Bologna, Italy, 2019
coronavirus-outbreak-emergenza-coronavirus The consequences of coronavirus on the capital town during lockdown. A view of the East ring road of Rome during the rush hour. Rome, Italy, 2020
coronavirus-outbreak-emergenza-coronavirus-2 The consequences of coronavirus on the capital town during lockdown. A view of the East ring road during the rush hour. Rome, Italy, 2020
maccotta_portfolio2021_004 Tourists at Colosseum. Rome, Italy, 2017
berlin-berlino View of Sowjetisches Ehrenmal - Treptower Park (Memorial to Soviet Soldiers at Treptower Park). Berlin, Germany, 2020
berlin-berlino-2 View of the Sbahn station Friedrichstrasse. Berlin, Germany, 2020
maccotta_portfolio2021_026 A view of the Posco Tower-Songdo, also called Northeast Asia Trade Tower. Republic of Korea, Incheon Songdo International Business District, 2015
maccotta_portfolio2021_009 View of the uncompleted Città dello sport also known as Vela di Santiago Calatrava. Rome, Italy, 2016
maccotta_portfolio2021_005 Herzliya district. Interior view of the HQ of Howazit, a start-up providing an end-to-end Customer Communication Platform. Tel Aviv, Israel, 2017
digital-natives-south-korea-nativi-digitali-corea-del-sud Students watching a movie in the Multimedia Plaza at the Kwanjeong Library of the Seoul National University. Republic of Korea, Seoul, 2015
internet-addictions-in-south-korea-dipendenze-da-internet-in-corea-del-sud-2 Samsung Digital city, the headquarter office of Samsung. Employees coming back to work after the lunch break. Republic of Korea, Gyeonggi, Suwon, 2015
maccotta_portfolio2021_017 Child playing a digital game. Milan, Italy, 2013
maccotta_portfolio2021_019 Portrait of a 23 years old cam model in a room of "Studio 20" before her night shift. Bucharest, Romania, 2016
maccotta_portfolio2021_010 Portrait of Dong Xiao Shuai, a 15 years old boy in the "Ya Bo center", a military boot-camp for reeducation of young people who are by the majority suffering from excessive online game playing. Dong Xiao Shuai is living in the boot-camp since 1 months. China, Jinan, Shandong province, 2015:
internet-addictions-in-south-korea-dipendenze-da-internet-in-corea-del-sud The national final of Star Craft - one of the most popular massively multiplayer online games (MMOCs) in the world - held in a stadium at the Seoul Children's Grand Park. MMOGs are video games that simultaneously involve thousands of players connected through the Internet. According to data released by the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare, the extreme popularity of online videogames, also called E-sports, is the source of 90% of the pathological addictions from the Internet that afflict the youth population of the country. Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2015:
maccotta_portfolio2021_015 Workers loading tins of tomato preserves on the truck, in front of the warehouse of Longobardi Srl's plant. Italy, Scafati, Salerno, 2016
maccotta_portfolio2021_012 Portrait of a junior pastor of the True Betthel Church. Republic of Ghana, Ashanti Region, Kumasi, 2019
maccotta_portfolio2021_021 The photographer's father, Salvatore Maccotta, having a thermal bath. Island of Pantelleria, Sicily, Italy, 2011
maccotta_portfolio2021_016 View of the of the almost completely automated production line of Maserati Quattroruote and Maserati Ghibli at Avv. Giovanni Agnelli Plant (FCA - Fiat Crysler Automobiles). Grugliasco, Turin, Italy, 2016
maccotta_portfolio2021_022 The photographer's father, Salvatore Maccotta, having a thermal bath. Island of Pantelleria, Sicily, Italy, 2011
maccotta_portfolio2021_023 The morning service at The Qodesh, headquarter of Lighthouse Chapel International located in North Kaneshie suburb. The Qodesh is one of the largest megachurches in Accra. Republic of Ghana, Accra, 2019

Lorenzo Maccotta is a photographer, author of corporate, institutional and editorial projects.
After graduating in Philosophy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2005, he studied at Roman School of Photography and began his activity in documentary photography collaborating with Doctors without Borders.
Represented by Contrasto Agency since 2013 his work is focused on transformations of contemporary global society: his projects has been published by the most important international medias and exhibited in museums as well as in public spaces and galleries worldwide. After living in Barcelona, London, Berlin and Leipzig, he is currently based in Rome.

Rome, Italy

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Corporate

Climate Change Italia
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM Università di Bologna
Angelini
GENERALI The Gallery
Apple
CAP

Stories

Do no evil
Megachurches

 

Awards

2017. Sony World Photography Award, Contemporary Issues, third prize
2014. Moscow International Photography Awards, honorable mention
2011. Ponchielli Award – GRIN Photoeditors, third prize

Exhibitions & Screenings

2018. “The line of the water”, Museo della Permanente, Milan
2018. “The Gallery Generali”, Subway Station Tre Torri, Milan
2018. “Milan Digital Week – Future Present”, BASE, Milan
2017. “Sony World Photography Awards”, Villa Reale, Monza
2017. “Sony World Photography Awards”, Somerset House, London
2015. “Beating Sunday: frontières”, URCA Asbl, Brussels
2014. “Open Museum / Open City” MAXXI, Rome
2014. “Photography International Festival of Rome”, MACRO, Rome
2013. “Photography International Festival of Rome”, MACRO, Rome
2012. “Phc Capalbio fotografia”, Frantoio, Capalbio
2011. “Photography International Festival of Rome”, MACRO, Rome
2011. “Fotodocks Festival”, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
2011. “Menotrentuno Festival”, Spazio Tiscali, Cagliari
2010. “Fotoleggendo”, Mandeep Photography and beyond, Rome
2009. “Re-imagine Europe”, De Queeste art gallery, Brussels