Jacopo Papucci

Jacopo Papucci is an Italian-English documentary photographer, born in 1995 in Pisa, a bustling university town on the central west coast of Italy, renown world-wide for its iconic tower. “I can still recall when, as a little boy, I would spend hours with my English grandpa in his darkroom. He had to do two years national service in the RAF after the Second World War and would never forget to pack his camera before his travels to both Egypt and South Africa. My childhood summers were spent in Wales, much of the time in that very special place printing old photos and listening to his fascinating stories of sea voyages, pyramids, dirt, heat and homesickness. Dust-caked enlargers, yards and yards of film and the pungent smell of chemicals that were way past their expiry date; these were my faithful summertime companions.” Despite cultivating an interest in photography and embracing it as a hobby, Jacopo opts to further his education in the medical field and graduates from the Faculty of Medicine in 2018 as a registered nurse. After graduation he decides to get his first working experience in the UK where he stays for two years. Once back in Italy, driven by his creative impulse, he sets his mind on turning photography into a job. In 2020 Jacopo starts collaborating for a photographic studio in Leghorn, a stone’s throw from Pisa, which specializes in shooting weddings and fashion events, but only four months into the experience, he discerns it’s not the path he would like to take. After this epiphany, he resolves to harness his creative energy and focus on his artistic research. His pursuit comprises exploringthat sense of detachment experienced by mankind in relation to nature, capturing fleeting moments that evoke a twinge of nostalgia, perceived as an aching kind of solitude and melancholy, of seeking solace in the quiet of that aloneness. His artistic research through the medium of photography, lead him to sign a contract with an art gallery in Milan and with Kintzing agency in 2021. Further on, Jacopo starts to mature a strong interest in documentary photography and photographic storytelling and embarks on personal projects around Europe. His documentary work is focused on issues of collective memory, as well as the sense of home and belonging, and the relationship between traditions and loss of cultural identity. From 2021 he is a student of ISFCI school of Photojournalism in Rome.