Giada Ripa di Meana

BIO
Giada ripa
www.giadaripa.net

Raised in Brussels and in London, Giada Ripa graduated from Milan University with an MA in Political Science/ International Relations. She began her career in 1999 as a photographer after studying at the ICP in New York.

Since then, Ripa has roamed the world, using its topographies as a backdrop for her examinations of personal dislocation in both public and private space.

Based in New York for the past 6 years, Ripa has exhibited her
work in NY, Brussels, Italy an China, and has worked as a correspondent photographer (Grazia Neri agency) for some of the main Italian magazines including, Io Donna, Corrriere della Sera, D-Repubblica,Vanity Fair, Amica, Flair, Espresso, Class, il Sole 24.

She was invited four years ago by Biz-Art in Shanghai and by the Italian Insitute of Beijing to present her work in both cities. A great deal of her project has subsequently been focused in that area.

Her last ongoing project focuses on religious minorities in Central Asia (‘The muslims of china�" : “the Mountain Jews” of Azerbaijan, and the “Christian Russian Molokans of. the Caucasus”).

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