Louis De Belle is a photographer living and working in Milano, Italy.
After graduating at Politecnico di Milano (Bachelor) and Bauhaus–Universität Weimar (Master), he moved to Berlin and started working with curators, designers and architects. Since then he has maintained a practice between commissioned works and personal projects, producing photographs in series focused on a particular theme and usually publishing them in book form. Exhibitions, workshops and lectures about his work have been held in galleries, festivals and museums such as Triennale di Milano, KINDL Center for Contemporary Art Berlin, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Offprint at Paris Photo, The D&AD Awards, Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin, Milano Design Week, Malmö Fotobiennal, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Eindhoven Design Week and The New York Photo Festival.
Books:
Glasraum w/ Ganko (Caryatide, 2024)
Crowd (bruno, 2023)
Motors (METER Books, 2023)
Cartographies (Humboldt books, 2021)
Disappearing Objects (bruno, 2018)
Besides Faith (Self published, 2016)
Failed Dioramas (LUCIA Verlag, 2015)
Articles and interviews:
DOMUS
The Washington Post
The Independent
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
WIRED USA
Elle Decor Italy
It's Nice That
C41 Magazine
ZERO
il Post
Der Greif
iGNANT
Current and past interns:
Rebecca Curri (NABA, Milano)
Luca Fontana (Cfp Bauer, Milano)
Stefania Zanetti (Milano)
Luca Zambelli Bais (IUAV Venezia)
Lara Balais (Berlin)