I am an English/Italian lens-based artist and freelance photographer currently based in Brighton (UK). I work with photography and other lens-based mediums, audio, and elements of live performance.
As an 'emerging' practitioner my self-initiated projects explore themes of heritage & belonging through portraiture, collage and montage, and still-lives that frequently use food, heirlooms, the landscape, and found objects as cultural symbols and examples of personal storytelling.
I also work commercially & editorially with brands, marketing teams, and design agencies including The Royal Opera House, Penguin/Random House, Charleston Trust, The Grand Brighton, Entertaining TV, Glyndebourne etc.
I hold a Master of Arts (MA) Degree in Photography from Falmouth University. In 2021 extracts from my MA project MANNA were selected by curators from New Art Exchange & Bloomberg for Source Photography Magazine's graduate showcase and were also published in the contemporary art magazine AIN'T-BAD. My work has been exhibited at HIPFest, the V&A, Home (Manchester), and Brighton Fringe.
Projects
- GlimmerGlimmer is an exploratory image series that explores a personal sense of displacement through work which breaks down realities and certainties and which come to me like things caught out the corner of my eye: dreams, visions, and (possibly) alternate realities. These reflect life at a point of tension and chaos and the images are like portals into those points of change - where nation, environment, culture, and heritage are all breaking down, being redefined or reborn. They are deliberately diso
- MANNA - Food, identity, & belongingMANNA was developed for my Master's Degree (MA) in Photography through Falmouth University. Working with contributors of mixed-heritage and migratory backgrounds and experiences, the project explores food cultural artefact and symbol of personal genealogy & its power to invoke emotions, memories, and all manner of sensations both pleasurable and problematic. These qualities make food an expressive symbol for who we are and what preoccupies us as individuals and society in general. The project wa
Work history
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PhotographerJames Bellorini Photography
Brighton, United KingdomFreelance
Freelance photographer and lens-based artist - I went freelance in 2013 and since then I've worked with a host of organisations and brands on marketing campaigns, reportages, publicity etc. Some of the clients I've made images for are listed in the work history here.
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PhotographerThe Charleston Trust
- Firle, Lewes BN8 6LL, UKFreelance
Exhibition installation photography of 'Ideas of Utopia' and 'Near Heaven' by Langlands & Bell and curated exhibition Absent Artists, and illuminated text by Nathan Coley. Reportage of Private View and related events.
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Skills
- Photography
- Editorial Photography
- Studio Lighting
- Portrait Photography
- Adobe Lightroom
- Still Life Photography
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Indesign
- Location Photography
- Location Scouting
Education
Master of ArtsFalmouth University
- Falmouth, United Kingdom
Master's Degree in Photography (with Distinction) through Falmouth University. My MA project 'MANNA - Food, identity, and belonging' was also selected for the Source Magazine Graduate Showcase in Autumn 2021.