Daniele De Lonti

Daniele de Lonti was born in Milan in 1959. He actively participated in the youth political movements that animated the Italian scene in the late 1970s. He trained at the Civica Scuola di Fotografia in Milan and became assistant to Giovanni Chiaramonte and later to Luigi Ghirri.
In 1990 he moved to Vezzano, a small town in the Emilian countryside. When Ghirri died in 1991, he began a personal creative journey, collaborating with “Linea di Confine” and the Space Archive of the Province of Milan, continuing to follow the exhibition and publishing activities of the Luigi Ghirri Archive. With architect Alberto Ferlenga he works on the architecture of A. Rossi, P. Bonatz and D. Pikionis, later collaborating with numerous Italian designers. In 1996 he attended the seminar of American Frank Gohlke, finding confirmation of the reasons for his own poetics as a form of personal freedom. He lives and works in Milan.