Biography

Marco Bulgarelli biography

Marco Bulgarelli (b. 1973) is an Italian photographer and teacher born in Rome. After studying History, Geography, and Film at “La Sapienza” University of Rome, he attended a three-year master’s at the Roman School Of Photography and Cinema, where he graduated in 2002.

Polyhedric photographer engaged in continuous communicative research, Marco Bulgarelli is distinguished by his refined use of color and black-and-white, in both 35mm and medium format. He approaches each subject with a style that responds to its intrinsic characteristics, resulting in work marked by a human and poetic sensibility. His projects form expansive visual surveys of our time, conveying cultural, social, environmental, and geographical narratives with clarity and depth.

Since the beginning of his career, he has worked consistently for the weekly magazine “L’Espresso”, which allowed him to explore a wide range of topics, primarily related to social, cultural, and urban changes of the 21st century. This collaboration provided him with invaluable experience and the opportunity to work under diverse and challenging circumstances.

Thereafter, he deepened his engagement with the issues he had studied at university, such as geography and cultural anthropology, focusing on questions of identity with particular attention to minorities.

He developed a project in collaboration with National Geographic magazine on the varying degrees of integration of the Chinese community in Italy. He has produced several reportages in Italy, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and in European capitals, while focusing primarily on Eastern Europe, which he has traveled extensively since 2002.

In 2013, Danubius, a long-term project on the Danube River, was published as a book and presented as a traveling exhibition.

With Danubius, he approached Fine-Art photography, which has become, in recent years, an integral part of his production alongside landscape and night photography.

He has collaborated for many years with Corbis (Branded Entertainment Network), Gamma-Rapho, and LUZ agencies.

His works have received several international awards and are exhibited in galleries and museums. In addition to his personal projects and commercial and editorial assignments, Bulgarelli has been teaching photography since 2012,  including at Roma Tre University.

International Federation of Journalists press card number 168692.