About

email: jacopo.laforgia@gmail.com

Jacopo La Forgia graduated in Aesthetic Philosophy at La Sapienza University of Rome with a master’s thesis on Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
He is based in Berlin and Venice, and works across Europe as a photographer (artwork and documentary), photo editor, writer, translator, and copywriter.

As an artwork photographer and photo editor, he has collaborated with major contemporary art institutions, including Hamburger Bahnhof and Pergamon Museum (Berlin), La Biennale di Venezia, MAXXI (Rome), MOCA (Bangkok), among others.

His documentary photography has led him to work on a wide range of themes and geographies: from the landfills of New Delhi and the civil war in Kashmir, to the Peruvian Amazon, Indonesian post-genocide memory, and the wildfires in Calabria.

His photos have been featured in publications such as Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Monopol, Mousse Magazine, La Repubblica, Le Monde, and others.

As a writer, he has contributed essays, short stories, and reportage to magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. He published the short story collection Materia (Effequ, 2019) and contributed the essay Costruire il risveglio, on the 1965-66 Indonesian genocide, to the collective volume Trilogia della catastrofe (Effequ, 2020). In 2025, he will release La vita privata degli animali, a new short story collection illustrated by Manfredi Ciminale.