Manuel Cosentino (b.1980) is an Italian artist working with photography. His work has focused on the role of the individual—and collective responsibility—in contemporary society, and on the function of art as an agent of change. He graduated from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, and moved to London where he lived and worked several years before basing his practice in Italy. 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 (USA) 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.
