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Valeria Tofanelli is a Roman photographer whose work explores the relationship between human beings and their environment through everyday life storytelling. Fascinated by the potential of photographic language, her approach to imagery blends reality and fiction to create evocative and personal narratives.
Her photographic work has been exhibited both in Italy and abroad and has been published in books, magazines, and online articles. She collaborates as a lecturer at the Daylight photography school in Rome and has been a member of the international collective Burn My Eye since 2022.
2017 – Group exhibition at Imago Orbetello Festival.
2018 – Group exhibition at Observa Street Photo Festival.
2021 – Publication of the book Mareterno, a photography project created with photographer Lorenzo Catena.
2021 – Exhibition of the Mareterno project (created with Lorenzo Catena) at Divario Gallery, Rome.
2021 – Publication of the fanzine Fragments of Imagination, edited by Bump Books.
2022 – Exhibition of the Mareterno project (created with Lorenzo Catena) at Lido di Ostia Theatre.
2022 – Exhibition of the Mareterno project (created with Lorenzo Catena) at FIAF Gallery, Turin.
2022 – Exhibition at Imago Orbetello Festival.
2023 – Group exhibition of Burn My Eye at Aussie Photo Festival.
2023 – Exhibition of Mareterno in Rome – WSP Photography.
2023 – Exhibition at Sanremo Street Photo Festival.
2023 – Exhibition of Mareterno at Vada Photo Festival.
2023 – Exhibition of Mareterno in Padua.
2023 – Exhibition at Livorno Photo Meeting.
2024 – Exhibition in Rome of the project Pitch. Dentro l’Italia del Cricket, a project created in collaboration with photographers Massimiliano Faralli, Simone Mantia, and Antonino Sismo.
2025 – Exhibition and book presentation in Prato of the project Pitch. Dentro l’Italia del Cricket.
2025 – Exhibition of Mareterno in Rome – Daylight School.
