Jacopo Scarabelli is a professional photographer based in Milan, Italy.
He trained as a photographer in the photographic studio owned by his family where he also managed the transition from analogue to digital.
He’s the owner of the same studio where he has worked since 2004.
In 2008 he started to travel the world and thanks to those experiences he began to produce personal projects.
He won the “Honorable Mention Award” at the International Photography Awards and he’s been exhibited at Malpensa Airport with some travel and landscape projects.
Since 2016 he has studied and produced documentary photography. He joined masterclasses with the “World Press Photo” awarded photographers Paolo Marchetti, Fulvio Bugani and Giulio Di Sturco and the Editor Annalisa d’Angelo.
His first long-term documentary photography project is called “Play The Game Over”.
With this work he won several photography awards, most of them in the category “Sports”.
He’s been interviewed and published by “Corriere dello Sport”, “Il Giornale” and “Il Fotografo Magazine“.
In 2023 he’s been shortlisted and awarded “highly commended” at Belfast Photo Festival 2023.
In the same year “Play The Game Over” became a photobook, curated by Barbara Silbe and published by SelfSelfBooks.
In 2023, with the rise of generative images, he starts to produce “Masters of P”, a new long-term project about imagination, creativity and interpretation.
The project want to explore the importance of the human being and his unautomatable imagination through the figure of Game Masters.
His works are about how pop culture and entertainment are the portrait of today’s new society.
He teaches photography since 2018, with workshops in Italy and Spain.
Awards and Recognitions
| 2023 | Belfast Photo Festival – Shortlisted and highly commended (Play The Game Over) |
| 2020 | Moscow International Photography Awards – Honourable Mention (Play The Game Over) |
| 2019 | ND Awards – Honourable Mention (Play The Game Over) Internatonal Photography Awards – Honourable Mention (Play The Game Over) |
| 2018 | PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris – Honourable Mention (Play The Game Over) |
| 2017 | International Photography Awards – Honourable Mention (Play The Game Over) |
Exhibitions
| 2024 | Titan Gaming Center – Solo show (The Classic Version) Bottega Immagine – Solo show (Play The Game Over) |
| 2023 | Parma Art Fair – Collective show at TD Art Gallery (RGB Portraits Amazon University Esport – Solo show (Play The Game Over) EspoGame – Solo show (Play The Game Over) |
| 2022 | LIVE – Living Inside Various Experiences – Collective show by SelfSelfBooks (Play The Game Over + RGB Portraits) |
| 2019 | MSI Gaming Bergamo – Permanent solo show (Play The Game Over) |
| 2018 | Milan Photo Week – – Solo show (Surrealitalia) Milan Malpensa Airport Photo Square – Solo show (Surrealitalia) |
Lessons/Talks
Jacopo Scarabelli teaches in his photography school “Fotografica Factory” but he also gives lessons and speeches for organizations, institutions and more:
| 2024 | Festival delle Storie – Biblioteca Sovico (MB) – “Esports sia! E per tutti!” Talk about gaming and accessibility with Fondazione Asphi and Marta Abbà (Wired, Mangrovia…). Presentation of Play The Game Over. Bottega Immagine + Circolo Fotografico Milanese + Still Fotografia – Play The Game Over. Presentation of the photobook and talk IULM University – Master in Esports & Gaming – Photo & Video for videogames |
| 2023 | SolferinoLab – Photography is communication InfoProgetto – Photography Masterclass – Technical lesson |
| 2022 | InfoProgetto – Photography Masterclass – Technical lesson |
| 2019 | MSI Creative Room – Photo set creation + workshop inside the MSI offices in Bergamo MSI Fan Day – Workshop – Portrait series with hardware placement – Cross+Studio Milano |
Words
| 2023 | EyesOpen! Magazine – Contributor and press correspondent |
| 2021 | YouTube – Videos about photography culture and personal researches about it |
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