Bea Roggero Fossati

Bea Roggero Fossati was born in Asti, Italy in 1982.

She attended Ca' Foscari Venice University studying Oriental languages and cultures, specialising in Japanese. She graduated with her M.A. in 2008 with honours with a degree thesis on Japanese photography.

During her university years she lived in Kyōto, Japan to improve her language skills and in Barcelona, Spain, where she learned Spanish as well.

After her graduation she moved to Milan for three years where she worked in a big photographic studio, learning the bases of the photographic techniques. During that period she met and worked with important individuals of the fashion, art, and photography Italian and international scene.

She then moved to London in order to try and be in touch with a more exciting and diverse environment and, together with her partner, she successfully founded Neko Production Ltd, a company that would cater the logistic photographic needs. 

Drawing from her Japanese studies and photography experience, she started pursuing printmaking and in 2016 she applied to the M.A. in Printmaking at the University of the Arts London where she graduated with distinction in July 2018.

The M.A. helped her practice shifting toward a more sophisticated imagery where she could join her past experiences in the photography field with a broader discourse on the anthropocene, the environment, quantum physics, geology, biology, as well as an enquiry on her own culture and spiritual awareness. She then moved back to Italy to develop further her practice while working in her family business in the hospitality sector. In her projects there is the renovation of a country house in the Piedmontese vineyards in order to start a B&B and an artistic residency in her hometown.