Debora De Canio


Born in Italy and raised in Potenza, Basilicata, she studied photography in Rome at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia e Cinema. She then attended the Divergent Vision course at the Door Academy, followed by a master’s degree in Art and Design at Birmingham City University.

Her interdisciplinary practice relies on experimental photography, which involves the manipulation or combination of photographic materials with various mediums. She is driven to break free from the flat surface that a traditional picture conveys and is actively developing and researching a multimedia language that incorporates photography, sculpture, video, and sound.

Her approach to image creation is highly artisanal and ranges from using handmade tools such as pinhole cameras to assembling photographic enlargers made from pizza boxes, and processing and combining objects for installations.
Focusing on environmental and ecological issues, she has decided to explore and experiment with sustainable practices alternative to traditional darkroom chemistry, using organic developers and fixatives.

Currently, she is dedicated to integrating artisanal practices with anthropological context, focusing on the preservation of traditions. This leads her to explore and study ancient materials and techniques that are slowly disappearing in the modern world.

She is also the co-founder of the photographic collective Ridimensioni


Exibitions and pubblications:

Lucky Star Magazine – Issue 4 – Publication: "Il Conticello" – 2025
Sphaera Activitatis – Osservatoriomaree ISBN Publication – 'Il sentiero delle Sette Pietre e la Stryx' – 2025
Shortlisted – Premio Strati Creativi – 'Angiulina cursed dance' – Museo Crocetti, Roma, 2025
Where Flowers Bloom – Space x Time issue no.7 & exhibition – 'Il Conticello' – Locarno, 2025
UNEXPOSED – Photo TWENS exhibition: 'Benath our skin' – Leuven, 2025
Shortlisted – CREACTION 2025 – “The Path of the Seven Stones and the Stryx” – Cultural Hypogeum Lega Navale Italiana, Matera 2025
Shortlisted – Liquida Photofestival 2025 – “Il conticello” – Polo del ‘900, Turin
Shortlisted – Florence Contemporary Gallery – "Angiulina Cursed Dance" – Exploration Group Exhibition, Online 2025
Ras Al Khaimah 2025 Art Festival - Fine Arts and Photography Category: 'Il conticello' - Al Jazeera Al Hamra, UAE, 2025
Aeonian magazine - Issue No. 11 - 'Il conticello' - online, 2024
F-stop magazine - Issue #126 Telling Stories 2024: "Il conticello" - online, 2024
UNEXPOSED - Photo TWENS exhibition: 'Il conticello' with premium image - Leuven, 2024
Book Cafè - Group exhibition 'Ethereality': 'Another Kind of Vision' - London, 2024
Artdoc magazine - Group Exhibition 'invisible Threads': 'Il Conticello' - Online, 2024
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography - Exhibition and Zine Publication: 'Il Conticello' - Glasgow, 2024
Birmingham School of Art – MA show: 'At the Limit of the Rule' – Birmingham, 2023
Stryx Gallery – BCU work in progress show: 'Stryx' – Birmingham, 2023
Sonore Alchimie: 'Tormentata' – Davoli, 2023
Door Publishing - 'Il Conticello' for Co-authoring Magazine, Do not forget to..., Rome, 2022
Curator of "Exhibition of the Workshop with Peter Puklus" Rome, 2022
Alternative Photography - World Cyanotype Day Gallery Rejuvenation - "Storm in a mirror" – online, 2021
Bend: 'Emoji of Soul' – Artworks for EP Cover – Bologna, 2021
Artdoc magazine – experimental photography exhibition: 'Where am I from?' – online, 2021
Experimental Photo Festival – Argos Collective show: 'Where am I from?' – Barcelona, 2021
Door Factory – Mikros open call: book collector’s limited edition of stamps – Lost faith in a loop - Rome, 2020
Cluster Photography & Print: Book and prints 'The Man That Got Away' – London, 2019


Artist Residencies

FROM ZERO TO ZERO – Eulogy to Slowness, Imaginary Life Room
MABOS | Museum of Art of the Sila Forest, in collaboration with Massimo Mastrorillo from the Door Academy.
September 29 – October 5, 2025.


Workshops:

TAM Museum with Atomico Progetti and Roberta Mansueto – Creative laboratory of participatory art and artistic research focused on the Lucanian territory – Matera (2025)
Pulcinella Ceramics by Elvira Peduto - Artistic ceramics, handcrafted and hand-painted majolica pottery – Vietri sul Mare (2024)
Birmingham City University, James Edward Frost - Design and Learn to Bring Puppets to Life - Birmingham (2023)
Bound Art Book Fair with Edd Carr - Sustainable Darkroom Workshop - Manchester (2022)
D.O.O.R. Factory - Workshop with Lua Ribeira - Rome (2022)
D.O.O.R. Factory - Workshop with Miguel Angel Tornero - Rome (2022)
D.O.O.R. Factory - Workshop with Peter Puklus - Rome (2022)
D.O.O.R. Factory - Lab for Unexpected Fanzines - Rome (2021)
Experimental Photo Festival, Vera Baunova & Patrice Baunov - Film Soup - Barcelona (2021)
Experimental Photo Festival, Mélanie-Jane Frey - Wet Plate Collodion - Barcelona (2021)
Experimental Photo Festival, Dianne Bos - The Book as a Camera - Barcelona (2021)
Almudena Romero - Chlorophyll Printing - online (2021)
Darkroom London - Chemigram - Sayako Sugawara - London (2019)

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