Photography, Film & Visual Storytelling

Luna Coppola (Naples, 1980) is a photographer, visual artist and researcher based in Barcelona. She is founder of the cooperative Base Ò, co-founder of Duae Collective and an associate member of Fabra i Coats – Fàbrica de Creació. Her practice lies at the intersection of photography, documentary cinema and new media.

She holds a BA in Film Studies and Humanities from the University of Bologna, and between 1999 and 2005 worked as a cinematographer in Italian film productions. Over the past two decades she has participated in training programs, residencies and masterclasses in Italy, Spain, Finland, Germany and the United States. In parallel, she has built a solid career as an international press photographer in both sports and documentary, and has lectured at institutions such as UAB, IEFC, the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, and El Observatorio Barcelona.

Deeply influenced by her background in film, her multidisciplinary work explores visual storytelling and the relationship between human beings, domestic space and emerging environments. Through photography and video, she investigates the porous boundaries between reality and fiction, expanding the tradition of documentary practices toward a poetics of the future.

Since 2010 she has developed her long-term autobiographical project L’Ospite, which has received international recognition and exhibitions — including the Forward Thinking Museum (New York), the International Photography Awards (2012), and Les Rencontres d’Arles (2018). This work, subject of academic research and publications, reflects on chronic illness and motherhood, turning personal experience into a creative landscape.

From 2010 to 2014 she collaborated with Catalan artist Cristina Nuñez on social photography projects supported by La Caixa Obra Social, and co-founded the SelfBook Project with the support of the Umbria Region and Perugia Social Photo Fest, delivering more than 40 workshops in secondary schools.

Since 2015, with Duae Collective, she has expanded her narrative vision with a transversal approach, focusing on codes and new media as tools to rethink and interact with the digital environment. In 2021 she completed the Elements of AI – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course at the University of Helsinki, integrating these perspectives into her artistic and research practice.