Eleonora Pecorella is a photographer and art historian born in Rome in 1973. She received her BA and Master in Art History from Rome La Sapienza University. She worked few years in this field in Italy, before moving to London in 2008, where she exclusively focused on photography as her main interest and activity, studying photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
As soon as she started learning it, she felt that photography was the tool to satisfy her need to expression. Her first practice focused on macro photography to undertake a visual investigation of plants and flowers. She had her first solo exhibition "Botanical Beauty" at the Imperial College of London in 2010.
Then she started working at other subjects.
She travelled around the world in 2012 keeping a photoblog, published on an Italian online magazine (TheTripMag).
Her approach to photography is based on the idea that understanding (or at least trying to understand!) social, historical, and political, context around us is the starting point to give space to self expression, and only from that point it's possible to appreciate and give value to the aesthetic aspects of life. She is particularly interested to those moments of everyday life where you can intercept clues of an original melt between routine and the extraordinary. She’d love to be able to point out this mix through her photographic work, mix discernible in many apparently unimpressive situations of our ordinary existence. 

In 2015 she was Finalist at the prestigious Lens Culture Portrait Awards with Women's Energy, she won a first place in Aerial at the International Color Awards with Sorrento, and one photo from her Another Point of View was selected for Exclusive Exhibition curated online by Hollywood celebrity Jamie Lee Curtis for SaatchiArt.

In 2016 the photographer was invited to be part of the Network by LensCulture, and was selected for Connect, the first exhibition online of the Network curated by Aaron Schuman;  last but not least she won a second place in Sport category at the International Color Awards with Marettimo.

This year Eleonora was selected between 1000 applications to be part of The Other Art Fair in London, curated, among others, by Rebecca Wilson, former director of Saatchi Gallery. 

Collections: Archivio Italiano dell'Autoritratto Fotografico, Musinf, Senigallia Italy;
from 2015 judge at the International Photographer of the Year Photo Contest;

I have had many exhibitions, nationally and internationally;
now ongoing: Lens op de Mens, International Photo-festival, Overpelt Belgium, June-Aug 2017;
and upcoming:
- The Pollux Awards Exhibiton, Galeria Valid Foto, Barcelona, Sept 2017;
- Group exhibition, Fondamenta Gallery Rome, Oct-Nov 2017.