Caterina Suzzi is an Italian photographer based in the south of France.
She mainly documents social and environmental issues, but it is above all the exchange with others that nourishes her work. Photography allowed her to turn her passion into purposes, aligning her personal values with professional ones. She mainly worked in the Parisian suburbs, in partnership with social landlords and with the inhabitants of the most disadvantaged hoods. Her motivation to tell solution-oriented stories of communities who strive for a global change led her to document the new challenges linked to food sovereignty and agricultural resilience in in her homeland.
For 3 years (2015 - 2018) she lived in Brazil, collaborating with Fabrica Bhering and Z42 Arte artists residences. Thanks to this new environment, she started the “Playfulness” project in which she questions not only the way children look at the world but also how we, as adults, relate to them. While carrying on this project back in Europe in 2018, she continued to focus on topics that she cares deeply about: environment and youth.
Since 2021 she is part of terrafoto, a group of visual storytellers and writers focused on Community Supported Agriculture and other ways of local involvement with growing food in these times of climate extremes.
Committed to women's rights, she has collaborated with the NGO AIDOS.
She also runs educational workshops for a diverse range of audiences.
She joined Hans Lucas Studio in 2020.
Besides commissioned projects, her work has been exhibited in festivals and galleries in France and abroad: Les Nuits de Pierrevert, Festival Regard Neuf 3, East Gallery in London; Galerie Paris-Beijing in Paris.