About

Chiara Negrello (1995) is a freelance photographer and Canon Ambassador. Born in Rovigo, Italy, she graduated in photography from LABA ( Liberal Academy of Fine Arts) in Florence in 2017. After freelancing for a few years, in 2020-2021 she attended the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program at the International Center of Photography  in New York supported by the scholarship awarded by Reuters. In April 2021 she became a member of “Women Photograph” and in October 2021 she was selected for the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIV.

As a storyteller, Chiara’s aim is to reveal private moments from the lives of people impacted by inequality and injustice. By evoking deep empathy and highlighting a range of emotions through her photographs and videos, she encourages viewers to reflect on our shared humanity. 

In March 2022 Chiara has been nominated as Newcomer for the Leica Oskar Barnack. In Juneof the same year Chiara has been selected as the recipient for the The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Fellowship to support her project about the Ukrainian community in Italy.

Her work, which mixes photography and video, have been published by: The New York Times, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, D la Repubblica, Mareverlag, NPR, El Pais, MarieClaire, Der Spiegel, Burn Magazine, Focus among others and has been exhibited in collective and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad.  Her most recent exhibition was realized in collaboration with the OECD at the 7th World Forum for Well-being 2024.

She teaches seminars about photography and multimedia storytelling in partnership with Canon and independently.

She is currently based in the Philippines.