Francesco Merlini
Photographer
After a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design at the Politecnico University of Milan, Francesco Merlini continues his personal investigation on the form and the aesthetic of the relationship between society and individual, devoting himself completely to photography.
After a start in fashion photography, he has begun a collaboration with the photojournalism agency Prospekt and the website of independent journalism Dust.it. For him this has been the most appropriate way to turn his aesthetic vision and interpretation of reality into complete and usable works.
Alongside covering Italian news (with publications on L’Espresso, Internazionale, Gioia, Anna, Rolling Stone, D La Repubblica, Le Monde, Tageszeitung) Francesco carries on personal photographic projects, mainly related to the themes of death, sexuality and formal and moral decay mainly in big cities, such as Milan, Paris and New York.
On 2012 Francesco joined the international PROSPEKT agency.
On March 2012, Francesco has won the MONO talent call for new black&white photographers and will be published on MONO vol. one alongside renowned photographers such as Roger Ballen, Daido Moryiama, Anders Petersen and Trent Parke.
Francesco has been featured on TIME Lightbox among the new best black&white photographers.