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Course director

Denis Curti. Long time photographic critic for the pages of VIVIMILANO and on Milan pages of Corriere della Sera. As artistic director of Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia and of Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, he has organised festivals and exhibitions with the most famous world photographers. Former consultant for cultural marketing at Canon Italy, Denis is currently the artistic director of the Festival Foto di Savignano sul Rubicone, director of the Milan branch of Contrasto and member FORMA Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Administration Board.

Scientific committee

Gianni Berengo Gardin (Photographer)
Giovanna Calvenzi (Critic and Photoeditor of Sportweek)
Gianluigi Colin (Art Director of Corriere della Sera)
Denis Curti (Journalist and manager of Contrasto)
Luca Molinari (Architect and Critic, Editor for Architecture at Skira)
Roberto Stringa (General Director of Fondazione Corriere della Sera)
Francesco Zanot (critic)

Faculty members

Franco Achilli (exhibit designer)
Luca Andreoni (photographer)
Jacopo Anti (b/w printer)
Paola Brivio (photoeditor Geo magazine)
Vincenzo Castella (photographer)
Denis Curti (journalist and professor, Contrasto manager)
Salvo Dell’Arte (lawyer and professor, founder of IACCI)
Sara Dolfi (photography collecting expert)
Massimiliano Foscati (photographer and curator)
Luigi Gariglio (photographer and visual sociology professor)
Ercole Gianmarco (photographic documentation expert)
Giacomo Giannini (photographer)
Walter Guadagnini (contemporary art and photography expert and critic)
Francesco Jodice (artist and professor)
Roberto Koch (Contrasto founder and managing director)
Uliano Lucas (photographer)
Giorgio Majno (photographic studio expert)
Alessandra Mauro (Contrasto publishing director and FORMA exhibition activities responsible)
Maurizio Montagna (photographer)
Roberta Piantavigna (photographic material restoration expert)
Beatrice Ravelli (cultural marketing expert)
Mariella Sandrini (photoeditor)
Giuliano Sergio (image theory expert)
Marco Trinca Colonel (artist and digital postproduction expert)
Marco Vacca (photoreporter)
Roberta Valtorta (director of Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea)
Francesco Zanot (curator and photography critic, responsible for FORMA educational activities)

Visiting professors

The Master's previous editions hosted lectures and workshops held by, among others: Olivo Barbieri, Gianni Biondillo, Mario Cresci, David Farrell, Marco Finazzi, Luca Molinari, Franco Pagetti, Bernard Plossu, Filippo Romano, Giuliana Scimè, Wim van Sinderen (FotoMuseum Den Haag), Marina Spada, Sandra S. Phillips (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).

Partners and International Relations

The projects carried out during the Master program are realised in collaboration with working professionals, companies and institutions of particular significance in the sector some of whom already collaborate with NABA, and with professionals involved in the Master course. They include: Contrasto, Mondadori, Skira, Canon.
Interested students may request to continue their studies by taking a period of study in one of NABA’s foreign university partners on completion of the Master course. Such requests will be evaluated and presented to the partner institutions if related to the students’ research goals. NABA also collaborates with the Center of Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts-University of Plymouth, McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology University of Toronto, Philadelphia University, San Francisco State University.