Filippo Romano

Filippo Romano (b. 1968) is a documentary and architectural photographer trained at ISIA Urbino and the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. He currently teaches in the photography master programs at NABA and IUAV. His work focuses primarily on architecture, ways of inhabiting cities, and built environments more broadly.

Since 2011, he has been developing The Nairobi Project, a long-term investigation of the Kenyan capital. He has exhibited in three editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2010, 2014, and 2021).

In 2019, he collaborated with Fondazione Fabbri and Dolomiti Contemporanee on a photographic campaign addressing the effects of Storm Vaia. In 2024, under the curatorship of architectural historian Fulvio Irace, he documented the contemporary state of works by Angelo Mangiarotti and Alessandro Mendini for the Triennale Milano, and completed an editorial project on the UNESCO Prosecco Hills for Marsilio Arte. His project Statale 106, an investigation of the Ionian Calabria territory, was acquired in 2022 by MUFOCO – Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea. In November 2024, he realised Insulae Acqua on the island of Linosa, curated by Alessandra Klimciuk. In 2025, he contributed a photographic campaign to the exhibition Stadi. Architettura e Mito at MAXXI in Rome.