bio
Pierfrancesco Celada (1979); after completing a PhD in Biomechanics, Pierfrancesco is now concentrating his attention on a series of personal long-term photographic projects documenting life in modern cities.
His work has been published and exhibited internationally, including Les Rencontres d’Arles, Fotografia Europea, Cortona On The Move, Nobel Peace Center, Gulbenkian Foundation, WYNG Foundation and Deichtorhallen.
In 2021 he founded muddyisland, an independent publishing house created to produce and promote his personal artistic projects. Muddyisland was born on a small island in the South China Sea and currently operates from Murano.
contact
- info@pierfrancescocelada.com
- phone
- +39 377 089 1790
- @fotografante · @muddyisland
awards
- 2024Italian Council, 13th Edition
- 2023Webby Honoree, Websites and Mobile Sites, The Webby Awards
- 2021Lauréat Photo Folio Review, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
- 2020Guernsey Photography Festival International Competition
- 2020PHmuseum Photography Grant, runner-up
- 2017Happiness Onthemove Award
- 2015EPEA’03, European Photo Exhibition Award
- 2014Photolux Leica Award
- 2010Ideastap & Magnum Photos Photographic Award
exhibitions
- 2024Happy Valley, 9th Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
- 2023Animal instinct / Instinct animal, MBAL, Le Locle
- 2023Festival of Photography, Biel/Bienne
- 2022Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
- 2021Guernsey Photography Festival, Guernsey
- 2021WYNG Foundation, Hong Kong
- 2021Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
- 2019Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
- 2018Cortona On The Move, Cortona
- 2017Kaunas Photo, Kaunas
- 2017EPEA03, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo
- 2017EPEA03, House of Photography at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
- 2016EPEA03, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
- 2016EPEA03, Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Viareggio
- 2015Expo dopo Expo, Ordine degli Architetti, Milan
- 2006Making of working-class hero, Candice Breitz, Bawag Foundation, Vienna
- onlineInstagrampier, digital exhibition