Based between Milan and Tokyo, award-winning documentary photographer Laura Liverani works mainly on socio-anthropological issues focusing on community and identity. Her work was extensively published in magazines, books, exhibitions and festivals worldwide. She lectures regularly in Photography at universities in Europe and is a member of international photojournalism agency Prospekt. Liverani is also represented globally by the prestigious agency Institute of Artists, and is a contributo of Redux Pictures in New York.
Publications and clients include, among others, Benetton, The Whitechapel Gallery, Iperborea, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Marie Claire, D – La Repubblica, Geo, New Scientist. She held solo shows at the Tokyo G/P Gallery, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, the Japan Foundation in Sydney, The Hong Kong Fringe Club, and participated at numerous festivals such as the Singapore International Photo Festival, the Festival of Ethical Photography, and the Helsinki Photofestival. Her work was also featured in group exhibition at national museums internationally, such as the Rautenstrauch- Jost Museum in Cologne and the Tokyo Photographic Arts Museum in Tokyo.
In 2018 Laura was exclusively assigned by Iperborea the photography for The Passenger - Japan, a magazine-book that has proved an editorial success in Italy, later published and distributed internationally by Europa Editions. Her long term photographic project Ainu Neno An Ainu about the indigenous peoples of Japan was awarded the Premio Voglino grant for best portfolio in 2015, and exhibited and published internationally. This project developed into her first documentary film project of the same title, co-created with Neo Sora and collective Lunch Bee House. The film was screened at Nippon Connection 2021 and Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2022. Under a research grant, in 2022 Liverani completed a new body of work for the dissemination of a multidisciplinary research project by the University of Milano - Bicocca in partnership with the Polytechnic of Milan and the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Tokyo.
