Biography
Nicolò Degiorgis was born in 1985 in Bolzano Bozen, a small town at the foot of the Italian Alps. After studying Chinese at the University of Venice, he moved to Hong Kong to work for a trading company, and then to Beijing to continue his study of the Chinese language at the Capital Normal University. He interned at Magnum Photos in Paris for six months, was awarded a 2008/09 Fabrica fellowship, Benetton's communication research center, and in 2010 an artist studio at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice.
While pursuing a long term project regarding the situation of the Muslim community in Italy, he is being employed by the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Trieste to research immigration in Italy.
His work appears regularly on internatinal magazines such as D di Repubblica, Financial Times Magazine, Io Donna, Madame Figaro, Vogue Japan, and has been shown, among other exhibitions, at Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation (Turin), New Museum (New York), Institute des Cultures d'Islam (Paris; patronized by Martin Parr) and Institute of Italian Culture (Copenhagen).
He is represented by Contrasto.