ARTIST STATEMENT
Rooted in her personal experience as a lens to explore human dynamics, Susanna D’Aliesio’s work questions the notions of identity, time and power. Moving across photography and writing, she invites the viewer to reflect on the ambiguity of reality, perceptions and cultural background focusing on the fine line between feeling and understanding, and turning the attention to the vulnerable positions. D’Aliesio weaves elements into layered compositions and narratives, assembled through associations, correspondences, or dissonances, creating a multisensory engagement. The production process represents an approach where control and instinct, freedom and coercion, tension and tenderness, perception and research coexist.
CV
SELECTED TALK AND LECTURES
2025 Lecturer | Actionaid | Art is Love Made Public
2025 Talk with Emanuele Marchetti | My body tales - My body is
2024 Talk with Lou Ms. Femme | When the Gods Fall Asleep
2021 - ongoing Lecturer | La Sapienza University | Master's Degree Diversity and Photography
2024 Lecture and Magazine launch | WSP Photography
2023 Lecture and Magazine launch | Spazio Mimesis
2021 - ongoing Photography teacher | Monochrome, Italia
PHOTOGRAPHER AND JOURNALIST
2022 Founder and Editor | Monochrome Magazine
2017 Journalist | The British Journal of Photography | England
2016 - 2018 Photographer | Alamy, Getty, Sopa Images
2015 Photographer | Un Ponte Per | Italy Reportage about omen conditions in Lebanese refugee camps
2014 Journalist | Il Fatto Quotidiano Collaboration
2013 Photographer | Wimdu | Germany
2013 Photographer | Liberetà | Italy Reportage in territories seized from the mafia throughout the South and North of Italy commissioned by CGIL
2013 Journalist | Melty Network | France
2012 Photographer | Pubblico I Italy
2009 - 2012 Photographer | Infophoto | Italy
2012 Photographer | Kikapress | Italy
2011 Journalist | Radio Radicale
2009 - 12 Journalist | Fuori le Mura | Italy
2011 Video Editor | Uniroma TV | Italy
2011 Radio Speaker | Radio Sapienza | Italy
EDUCATION
2025 - ongoing MA Filling the Gap
Fondazione Studio Marangoni | Italy
2016 - 17 MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism
Westminster University | England
2011 - 14 Journalism and Communication | La Sapienza University
Thesis: The condition of women in democratic transition countries: The case of Turkey
2014 Journalism and Communication | Yeditepe University | Turkey
2013 Journalism and Visual Communication | Santiago de Cali University | Colombia
2008 - 10 Italian Literature and Communication | Lumsa University | Italy
Thesis: Crisis Communication, L'Aquila 6 April 2009
2006 - 10 Literature, Music, Entertainment |La Sapienza University | Italy
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Group Exhibition | San Lorenzo Pride
with “When the Gods Fall Asleep”
2024
Solo Exhibition | Queer Summer Fest (winner)
with “When the Gods Fall Asleep”
2018
Group exhibition | “Diaspora”
The photographic project conceived and created in collaboration with the non-profit organization “Un Ponte Per”
Susanna D’Aliesio (b. 1985) is an Italian artist who lives and works in Rome. Her practice moves across photography and journalism. She’s been playing with cameras since she was six until the game became her job. She worked with several photojournalistic agencies till she realized that shooting Italian politics bored her to death. She spent several years traveling abroad to discover other ways to bring issues to the light of the mediatic agenda.
Her work has been published on Il Corriere della Sera, The Guardian, La Stampa, L'Agi, L'Espresso, La Stampa, Il Resto del Carlino, Il Fatto Quotidiano, among others. She worked at The British Journal of Photography as a journalist. Her work "Diaspora", on the condition of Syrian and Palestinian refugee women in the Lebanese camps, was exhibited in Rome. Her latest photographic project “When the Gods fall asleep” was showcased in Rome during the Summer Queer Festival ‘24. Portraitist and Documentary Photographer, teacher, lecturer at Sapienza University in Rome. She founded Monochrome, a magazine in Rome that focused on ethics and professional photography. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows