Alba Zari is a visual artist working with photography, video and sound. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1987 where she lived until the age of eight. She later moved to Italy, first to Trieste and then to Bologna, where she graduated from university with a degree in film. She went on to study documentary photography at the International Center of Photography in New York city, and then continued her studies in photography and visual design at the NABA in Milan. 

Alba’s photographic practice explores social themes and includes a study of Italian mental health centres; eating disorders in the USA; Places (2015), a book and a photographic project which analyses the visual communication of ISIS propaganda; and Radici (2013), a documentary project on the vegetation of the Mesr desert in Iran. Her first book  ...