Mercoledì 22 ottobre 2025 avrò l'onore e il piacere di essere ospite della New York University, sede di Firenze, per la tavola rotonda “Framing Truth: Visual Storytelling and Artificial Intelligence in Journalism” (rientrante nella serie di eventi "Who Can You Trust: Media Trasformation and the Future of Democracy"), un incontro in cui parlerò del rapporto tra fotografia, reportage e intelligenza artificiale, e di come questa tecnologia stia trasformando il nostro modo di raccontare e interpretare la realtà. Con me dialogheranno Alessandra Capodacqua e Rahoul Masrani, docenti della NYU.
Il mio percorso è nato dalla fotografia documentaria tradizionale, ma negli ultimi anni, grazie anche alla mia formazione di informatico, ho sperimentato con l’intelligenza artificiale, integrandola nei miei lavori. Progetti come “Broken Mirror” e “The Ravenous Machine” riflettono su temi come il potere, la tecnologia e la manipolazione dell’immagine.
Link all’evento ufficiale: Visual Storytelling and Artificial Intelligence in Journalism
Framing Truth: Visual Storytelling and Artificial Intelligence in Journalism
A Roundtable with photographer Filippo Venturi and NYU Florence lecturers Alessandra Capodacqua and Rahoul Masrani
WEDNESDAY, October 22, 6:00 p.m.
NYU Florence, Via Bolognese 120 (Villa Sassetti)
With the advent of artificial intelligence, the evolution of documentary photographers presents a different and compelling narrative. Filippo Venturi’s initial approach to photography involved documenting real stories with an emphasis on authorship and reliability. His background in computer science has facilitated experimentation with AI, leading to projects that would have been previously inconceivable. This shift is evident in works like "Broken Mirror," which metaphorically explores both dictatorship and the controlling nature of technology, and "The Ravenous Machine," which investigates AI's insatiable hunger for data. For Venturi, the integration of AI also raises critical questions about the coexistence of photography and generated images in fields like information, challenging notions of neutrality, ethics, and transparency.
Filippo Venturi is an Italian documentary photographer and visual artist whose work explores identity and the human condition. His projects have appeared in leading international publications and have documented totalitarian dictatorships, democratic crises, and movements for minority rights. His project on the Korean Peninsula earned numerous awards, including the Sony World Photography Award.
Venturi's work has been exhibited globally. In 2023, he began incorporating AI into his conceptual works, receiving awards and speaking at the Photo Vogue Festival. Since 2024, he has led workshops on photography and AI and was featured in the "Pixel Perceptions: Into the Eye of AI" exhibition, organised by the Noorderlicht Gallery in Groningen (the Netherlands), which brought together an international selection of the most interesting visual artists working with artificial intelligence and explored how this new technology affects, consciously and unconsciously, our perception of the world.
(graphic design by Ariel Lee, NYU Florence student)
Aggiornamento del 22/10/2025:
Qualche foto della tavola rotonda di oggi!
Entrare a Villa Sassetti e nel complesso di ville storiche che compongono la sede della NYU, è come attraversare una soglia del tempo. Si tratta di un luogo di studio e di dialogo immerso nel verde di Firenze, tra quadri, sculture e un’atmosfera che stimola la curiosità.
Vedere gli studenti animare luoghi che invitano al sapere e partecipare all'evento mi ha rinvigorito.
Un posto dove tornerei volentieri studente :)
