After completing a PhD in Biomechanics, Pierfrancesco Celada (b.1979, Italy) is now focused on a series of personal long-term photographic projects documenting life in modern cities. He won the Photo Folio Review, Les Rencontres d’Arles (2021), the Guernsey Photography Festival International Competition (2020), PHmuseum Photography Grant (runner-up, 2020), Happiness Onthemove Award (2017), EPEA’03 (2015), the Photolux Leica Award (2014) and the Ideastap and Magnum Photos Photographic Award (2010).

His work has been published and exhibited internationally, including Les Rencontres d’Arles, Fotografia Europea, Cortona ONTHEMOVE, Nobel Peace Center, Gulbenkian Foundation, Wyng Foundation and Deichtorhallen.

Celada currently lives in Venice.