About
Federico Passi is a photographer, scholar in visual study and internet communication consultant. As a photographer has worked in architecture, still photography, studio and travel photography. Has a BA in Philosophy of Language, MA in Cinema Studies and a PhD in Media and Communication. As a consultant worked in Sydney (1996-1999) with SocialchangeOnline, in Rome (2000-2007) with Filmakers Magazine. In 2005 he founded iCine.it. 2005-2007 has been a partner and director of Libreria del Cinema in Rome and in 2008 moved to Melbourne, Australia. From 2015 he is based in Rome.
Publications/exhibitions:
Australia Modern, Phillip Goad and Hannah Lewi, Thames and Hudson, 2019
The Face on Film, Noa Steimatsky, Oxford University Press, 2017
ArchiDiap, Condividere l'architettura, 2017-2019
Docomomo Australia, 2012-2019
Trastevere Arte e Vita, Museo in Trastevere, Roma 2016
Manifesto Daily.
Articles, Papers and collaborations:
2019 - "La foresta urbana de 'Il Primo re', in Classico Contemporaneo.eu, 2019
2017 – “A Man About Town: found photography vs architectural photography”. Paper on the representation of Melbourne’s iconic modernist building ICI House (1957) in two images by architectural photographer Wolfgang Sievers and by indigenous artist Brenda Croft. Haunting, memory and Spaces, Symposium, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, 20-21 September 2017.
2016 – “Marvellous Melbourne. Queen City of the South: The uncanny pleasure of the urban spectacle”, reviewed conference proceedings: The Pleasure of Spectacle, Film and Media 2013, The third annual London Film and Media Conference, London, June 2013:
2014 – “I soliti ignoti”, Senses of Cinema, n 71, July 2014
2013 – “I giorni contati”, Senses of Cinema, n 67, March 2013
2012 - “Living in Australia: Robin Boyd’s architecture photographed by Mark Strizic”, Still Architecture, is image architecture? Photography Vision Cultural Transmission. Conference, Cambridge University, May 2012,
2013 – “Giorgio Mangiamele. Cinematographer of the Italian Migrant Experience” Books and DVD review, Senses of Cinema, March 2013
2012 - “Giorgio Mangiamele: against the light”, Catalogue of Giorgio Mangiamele’s Photo Exhibition, Coasit, Carlton
2011 - “Hawksian Girls and Weimar Cinema at 25th Cinema Ritrovato” in Film Festival Review, Senses of Cinema, 60
2011 - “The Cleaners” in Melbourne on Film Dossier, Senses of Cinema, n 59
2010 - “Lost in the collection. 16mm Italian films in Australian State Film Libraries”, Italian Historical Society Journal, vol. 18, pp 34-39