I was born in Pisa in 1995. I remember the first time when I saw a blank sheet of paper turning into a picture in my grandfathers darkroom in Llanidloes, Wales, where I used to pass my summer holidays together with my mother. I was about 8 years old. It was love at first sight.

Although I knew photography had always been important, I thought I had to find a "real" job in order to make a living so I started studying medicine and surgery at the University of Pisa. After graduating in 2018 I decided to leave Italy to go and work in the UK. I spent two years working in Oxford. At the time i could not deal with loneliness. I was suffering from depression and homesick so I decided to come back to my hometown. This is where discovered photography as a tool to deal with my inner turmoil. I fell in love with the medium and I decided to go to Rome to study documentary photography at ISFCI in 2020.

Photography helped me establish a great relationship with loneliness. It helped me embrace it and it's now a fundamental part of my body of work. I also love meeting strangers and taking pictures is an opportunity to live, for a brief period of time, a life that was not supposed to be mine.

My work focuses on issues of collective memory, mental health as well as the sense of home and belonging.

Bsc Hons at faculty of Medicine and Surgery (RGN) at University of Pisa, 2018

ISFCI school of photojournalism and documentary Photography., 2022

Canon Student Programme, 2022

Piergiorgio Casotti, Mentee, 2023-ongoing

jacopopapucci@gmail.com

+393927225266

Der Spiegel, The Times, C41 Magazine, Phocus Magazine, Documag, Koones, Inframe, Perimetro, British Journal of Photography.

Winner of “Confini” Open Call, Phocus Magazine, 2022

Recipient of ParalleloZero Fellowship 2022.

Recipient of Canon Student Programme 2022

Shortlist, Portrait of Humanity Vol.5 , British Journal of Photography.

Winner of OpenWalls Arles, 2023

Winner of JNRL 17 open call, Fotofilmic, 2023

Longlist, OD Photo Prize, 2023

Shortlist, Urbanautica Institute awards 2023

Outside Your Window, Milan 2021

Fiera Del Design, Milan 2021

Earth Day Italia, Rome 2022

Milano Photo Festival 17th edition, Milan 2022

OpenWalls Arles 2023, Collective exhibition at Galerie Huit

La Calle al Pie del Volcán, C41 Magazine

Color Negative 400, Lomography

That Fierce Fire Burning Within, Phocus Magazine

When Art meets the Earth, Koones