Patrizia Genovesi (born 1962) is an Italian photographer, video artist, film director, screenwriter and cultural popularizer.
Genovesi has a scientific education combined with studies of art, drawing and painting from the Italian tradition, musical execution and composition, screenwriting with Mario Monicelli, writing with Domenico Starnone, and theatrical direction with Argentinian Renzo Casali.
In photography, she had as teachers Magnum Photo Agency authors Leonard Freed, Richard Kalvar, Abbās ʿAṭṭār and Moises Samam.
In communication and technology, Genovesi attended seminars at Gruppo Galgano in Milan, studied analysis and development of information systems with IBM Italy, and has Google certifications for AIQ (Google Analytics Individual Qualification 2020), Data Journalism e Digital Marketing.
Genovesi draws her inspiration from diverse arts as well as from technology. Her production can hardly be classified within any given artistic trend in photography, cinema and video art. It covers a variety of styles and subjects, ranging from black-and-white to over-saturated color and includes portraits, landscapes, architecture, street photography, light painting, backstage, theatre and orchestra shows, and others. Her projects are often multimedia and combine photographs, videos and music.
In cinema, Genovesi has worked on several shorts as director, screenwriter and director of photography.
Genovesi is active as a cultural disseminator by means of conferences and seminars, both in-presence and online, on topics related to visual arts including photography, painting, cinema, TV and image-related science, including in cooperation with the Roma Tre University, the Italian Space Agency and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics.
Genovesi's photographs of Nobel Prize laureates have been published by the Nobel Prize Organization. Her portrait of Nobel Prize laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini was exhibited in Kamienna Gora, Poland, during the celebrations for Nobel Prize laureate Viktor Hamburger.
Genovesi's portraits of Magnum Photo Agency photographer Leonard Freed are part of the permanent collection of the Charleroi Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgium.
The short film Our Comedy, of which she was the screenwriter and director, won the Special Award from the Qualified Jury at the Contesteco 2021 competition and was included in the Official Selection of the Roberto Rossellini International Award 2021. The short film Pasolini, of which she was the screenwriter, director and director of photography, was awarded the First Prize at Contesteco 2022.
Genovesi was among the founders of Artoong, a pioneering web TV project in Italy.
Genovesi is a member of AFIP International (Association of Professional Photographers). In 2021 she joined the "One photograph to change the world" project promoted by WeWorld and Still, two humanitarian organizations, with the aim of fighting famine and malnutrition in Mali and Burkina Faso.
In 2001 she published a collection of poems titled Dancing in Babel.
