Manuel Cosentino (b.1980) is an Italian artist working with photography. He studied at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, before moving to London where he worked as a visual effects artist in the film Industry. After contributing to several movies, including Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix and Narnia Prince Caspian, he returned to Italy to focus on his art practice. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Galerie Huit during “Les Rencontres d’Arles”, the Museo Diocesano F. Gonzaga (Italy), the Museo G. Fattori (Italy), the Griffin Museum of Photography (Boston) and Klompching Gallery (NYC) and has been featured on L’Espresso (Italy), Wired (USA), The Huffington Post (USA), L’Oeil de la Photographie (France), iGnant (Germany) and Blink Magazine (S.Korea). In 2013, he was the recipient of the Combat Prize for contemporary photography (Italy). His work resides in several collections including the permanent collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
We all live beneath a single, shared sky—these photos show how notions of national identity may be discarded when we recognize the unifying nature of our common environment.
