Arianna Arcara studied photography at the European Institute of Design (IED) in Milan. Here she was awarded a scholarship by the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. After graduating from university, she started to assist Magnum photographer Alex Majoli and VII Photos photographer Franco Pagetti. In 2006 she co-founded Cesura, an independent photography group. In 2009 she was selected for “Young Blood 09 Annual selection of Italian talents in the world”. In 2010 she won Riccardo Pezza Award with her project Po/The River. In the same year she exhibited her Found Photos in Detroit project at Le Bal Space in Paris and in 2011 at Kulturhuset in Stockholm. In 2012, following the exhibition, Found Photos in Detroit was published. According to several ranks, it was considered among the best books of that year. In 2013 she was selected to take part at plat(T)form 2013, an annual selection of rising European photographers at the Winterthur Fotomuseum. In 2014 her project Found Photos in Detroit was selected by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger to be part of The photo book: a History, Volume III.

Her work has been shown at Spazio Forma in Milan, Triennale in Milan, Le Bal Space in Paris, MoCP in Chicago, Kulturhuset in Stockholm and others.

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