Francesca Magnani

Francesca Magnani was born in Padua, Italy and since 1997 is a New York based journalist, and street photographer. Francesca’s stories over the years have been published in Italian magazines and have often stemmed from everyday encounters in the streets of the Big Apple. They have ranged widely in interest from issues of lifestyle to identity, representation, displacement. Having lived half her life immersed in a culture extraneous from her own, having trained academically in Classics and Anthropology at UniversitaÌ€ di Bologna, having taught Italian in New York for over two decades, Francesca tells through her images and words the aspects of people’s lives that touch her and reach her, and at the same time she chronicles her own life.