Event Details
Wed, October 22, 2025
18:00 – 19:30
Villa Sassetti
VILLA LA PIETRA
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Florence, Italy
A Roundtable with photographer Filippo Venturi and
NYU Florence lecturers Alessandra Capodacqua and Rahoul Masrani
With the advent of artificial intelligence, the evolution of documentary photographers presents a different and compelling narrative. Filippo Venturi’s initial approach to photography involved documenting real stories with an emphasis on authorship and reliability. His background in computer science has facilitated experimentation with AI, leading to projects that would have been previously inconceivable. This shift is evident in works like “Broken Mirror,” which metaphorically explores both dictatorship and the controlling nature of technology, and “The Ravenous Machine,” which investigates AI’s insatiable hunger for data. For Venturi, the integration of AI also raises critical questions about the coexistence of photography and generated images in fields like information, challenging notions of neutrality, ethics, and transparency.
Featured Biographies
Filippo Venturi
PHOTOGRAPHER AND VISUAL ARTIST
Filippo Venturi is an Italian documentary photographer and visual artist whose work explores identity and the human condition. His projects have appeared in leading international publications and have documented totalitarian dictatorships, democratic crises, and movements for minority rights. His project on the Korean Peninsula earned numerous awards, including the Sony World Photography Award.
Venturi’s work has been exhibited globally. In 2023, he began incorporating AI into his conceptual works, receiving awards and speaking at the Photo Vogue Festival. Since 2024, he has led workshops on photography and AI and was featured in the “Pixel Perceptions: Into the Eye of AI” exhibition, organised by the Noorderlicht Gallery in Groningen (the Netherlands), which brought together an international selection of the most interesting visual artists working with artificial intelligence and explored how this new technology affects, consciously and unconsciously, our perception of the world.