Lisa Sorgini is an Italian-Australian artist, currently residing between Italy and Australia.
Working across still photography she investigates themes of the human condition; care-giving, motherhood, memory and familial spaces.

Her work has been profiled and published extensively, with notable interviews in The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, NY Times and Creative Review.

Within her two long-form projects, Mother and In-Passing, she uses personal experience combined with sociological research to reveal complex narratives in the representation of women and mothers and care roles in current cultural spaces.

Past projects have explored motherhood during the COVID-19 pandemic (Behind Glass), current family dynamics (Thick Like Water), and environment and place (The Bushfire, the Flood).

In 2023 she held her first solo exhibition of ‘Behind Glass’ at The Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, Australia and exhibited work from ‘Behind Glass’ and ‘Mother’ at PhEST and Ragusa photo festivals in Italy and Ballarat Photo Festival in Australia.

In 2022 she released her first monograph, 'Behind Glass', published by Libraryman (OOP). 

She has been recognised in multiple awards including the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize (UK), the National Portrait Prize (Aus),  the Lucie Portrait Project, Head-On photo awards, Portrait of Humanity and Australian photography awards.






EXHIBITION


2024


‘Behind Glass - Mother Country’
Landskrona Foto Festival (SE)
6 Sep - 22 Sep. Curated by Catlin Langford


‘New Photobooks from Australia.’
Behind Glass.
May to Nov V&A Museum (UK)

‘Dreams’ - PhEST (Festival of International Photography), Puglia. (IT)

“Don’t we touch each other just to prove we’re still here?” Princeton Art Museum. (US)
Curated by Susan Bright and Susannah Baker-Smith.

Artlab Eyeland residency and exhibition.
25 May - 30 Jun, Taranto Old Town. (IT)
Curated by Giovanni Troilio.



2023


Real Families: Stories of Change. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. (UK)

Mother’ at PhEST (Festival of International Photography), Puglia. (IT)
Curated by Arianna Rinaldo

‘Within The Landscape’ at Ballarat International Foto Biennale. (AUS)

Ragusa Foto Festival, Behind Glass, Sicily. (IT)
Curated by Claudio Composti.

SOLO - ‘Behind Glass’,  CCP Melbourne, (AUS)
Curated by Catlin Langford

2022 


PHOTO 2022 Commission, Thick Like Water, Aus

The Portrait, Blindside Gallery, as part of PHOTO 2022, Aus

New Discoveries in Contemporary Photography (Lens Culture), Caelum Gallery, NYC


2021


Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. National Portrait Gallery, UK

National Portrait Prize - National Portrait Gallery, AUS

 Head-On 2020 Vision touring exhibition, AUS

CCP Salon - Centre for Contemporary Photography, AUS

Paris Photo - Lens Culture Critics Choice Exhibition, (On Hold)

2020


Photo Oxford Festival ‘Ways Of Seeing And Being Seen‘ Ovada Gallery, UK

‘On Hold’ Group Show. Museo de la Cárcova, Buenos Aires.

#ICP Concerned ‘Global Images for Global Crisis’, International Center for Photography, US

Auckland Festival of Photography, Mass Isolation Format screening, NZ

CLIP Award, Perth Centre for photography, online, AUS

Head on Portrait Prize - Semi-finalist projection, online, AUS

2019


Group Summer Show, Yeah Nice Gallery, AUS

Iris Award Finalist exhibition - Perth Centre For Photography

Selected for CCP Salon Instagram Project- CCP Melbourne, AUS

Olive Cotton Finalist Exhibition - Tweed Regional Gallery, AUS

Head on Portrait Prize - Semi-finalist projection, Paddington Town Hall, AUS


2018


Opening Group Show, Yeah Nice Gallery, Mullumbimby, AUS 

2018: We Are All Going To Die group show, Studio Tropico, Byron Bay, AUS.

2018: Many Hands x Sea Change group show, All press studio, Collingwood

2012: Photographic Museum Of Humanity group show, Art Basel, Miami, USA.




BOOKS


Behind Glass, 1st edition (out of print)
Published by Libraryman Books, 2021


OTHER PUBLICATIONS


'Love Story: new photography on love and intimacy'. 224pp, hardback, 155 x 199mm. Written by Rachel Segal Hamilton.
Hoxton Mini Press, 2023

EyeMama:
Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood, Published by te Neues Verlag, 2023

The Covid-19 Visual Project: A Time of Distance, Published through Cortona on the Move, 2022

Mass Isolation Australia photo book,
Published by Ballarat Photo, 2021

ICP Concerned: Global Images for a Global Crisis.
Published by G Editions, 2021


INTERVIEW/TEXT


2024: ‘Protecting them is impossible’: raising children in a contaminated town – in pictures, The Guardian

2024: ‘Tamburis Mothers’ Internazionale

2023: Motherhood as seen from the photographs of Lisa Sorgini, by Sara Emma Cervo, Vanity Fair

2023: Behind Glass - Essay by Catlin Langford, 1000 words magazine.

2022: Art and Culture - Photography our Photo Editors are following, New York Times

2022: ‘Lisa Sorgini è una giovane fotografa che racconta storie di maternità. Chi è lei e perché vale la pena seguirla.’ Vogue Italia

2022: Feature Shoot - The Raw Beauty of Early Motherhood, Unfiltered

2021: The photographer explores the agony and ecstasy of motherhood. We Present

2021: Booooooom - ‘The Bushfire, the flood and the virus

2021: 6 Mois , Maternité Confinée

2021: Elephant Magazine  ‘What It’s Like Giving Birth During a Pandemic’

2020: D La Repubblica - ‘E se domani?’

2020: The Guardian ‘Pain Can Be Poetic’

2020: The New Yorker - ‘An Australian Photographer’s Dreamy Portraits of Mothers and Their Children in Quarantine’  

2020: TIME Magazine - 'You Feel Trapped and Overwhelmed': Mothers Understood Isolation Before the Pandemic’

2020: National Geographic - ‘Pictures reveal the intensity of motherhood—especially under lockdown’

2020: Creative Review - ‘The Australian photographer’s intimate series, Behind Glass, captures the “lightness and darkness” of parenting during lockdown’

2016: i_D Magazine, Australia - ‘Lisa Sorgini knows the Australian dream is slightly out of focus

older. > IGNANT, Germany, No Culture Icons, Gooood, This Is Paper Magazine, This Isn't Happiness, Booooooom, Ekstrakt, Freunde von Freunden, 607 Visual, YET Magaz




AWARDS


Finalist, Head On Awards, 2024

Shortlist, 
Australian and NZ Photobook Awards, 2024

 Finalist, Galah Regional Photography Awards, 2023

Shortlist, STORIES, Photo Collective, 2022

Winner, Portrait of Humanity, British Journal of Photography, 2022

Shortlist, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, 2021

Finalist, Ravenswood Women's Australian Art Prize, 2021

Finalist, National Portrait Prize, 2021

Winner, Lucie Foundation Portrait Project, 2021

 Winner, Centre for Contemporary Photography Ilford Salon, ‘Most critically engaged’ work, 2021

Winner, Lens Culture Critics Choice Award, 2020

Finalist, CLIP Award (Perth Centre for Photography), 2020

Finalist, Australian Photography Awards (Stories), 2020

Semi-finalist, Head On Portrait Prize, 2020


Finalist, Iris Award (Perth centre for Photography), 2019

 Finalist, Olive Cotton Award, 2019

Semi-finalist, Head On Portrait Prize, 2019

Semi-finalist, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, 2017

Honourable Mention - International Photography Awards, 2014

2013: Finalist, Photographic Museum Of Humanity - Art Basel, Miami, USA.