Federica Paoletti was born in Italy.
After two years spent at the University of Bologna studying theatre and literature, she moved to Great Britain in order to follow her passion for cinema at the University of Wales in Newport with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Video. As an undergraduate she worked on a number of short films as still photographer around UK and in Spain. After graduating she started collaborating with the Watershed Media Centre, a well-known multimedia complex in the heart of Bristol, UK, whilst contributing in the organization of two annual local film and animation festivals (“Brief Encounters” and “Animated Encounters”). With a group of local artists, she helped the start-up of “Decode”, an art magazine covering the British South-West art scene.
She then enrolled on the General Studies Program at the International Centre of Photography in New York. In the years spent in the U.S.A. she worked mainly in photography and during this time she started experimenting mixing photography with other media.
Her work has been exhibited in Great Britain, USA, Italy and other countries.
