Vincent Zanni (CH, 1995) is a photographer and visual artist whose practice explores memory, time, and personal histories. Drawing on family archives and familiar places, he investigates how photographs shape our understanding of the past and preserve connections with those who are absent.
Working with analogue and digital photography, Zanni combines image-making with experimentation in alternative photographic processes. He is interested in the material nature of photographs and how images can change, deteriorate, or disappear. Rather than treating photography solely as a means of documentation, he uses it to question the relationship between representation and reality, preservation and loss.
His process embraces uncertainty and imperfection, allowing materials and technical experiments to influence the development of his work. Through this approach, he reflects on the limits of photography as a means of preserving the past and explores how images can engage with absence, transformation, and the passage of time.
Interview
- Seeing what the house sees – Vincent Zanni’s Impressions of Home GalleryViewer.com
- Vincent Zanni, About Impremence of Memory urbanautica.com
Guest Lecture
- WDKA, Rotterdam, 2025
- KABK, fotodok, Den Haag, 2024
Education
- BA Fine Art Photography at Willem de Kooning Academy, 2023 Rotterdam.
- CFC Photography Centre d’Enseignement Professionnel de Vevey (CEPV )2019, Vevey
Nominations & awards
- Swiss Design Award - Finalist, 2025
- Blurring the Lines talent 2023 - Special Mention
- RM Photo Award - Won, 2023
- RM Young Blood Award, Nomination, 2023
- Drempelprijs (Honors), Willem de Kooning, Nomination, 2023
Selected Exhibition
- Swiss Design Awards 2026 , Switzerland, Basel, CH 2026
- Awakening in Blue, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL 2026
- Last Impressions of Home, Galerie FrankTaal, Rotterdam, NL 2025
- FotoFestival Naarden, Naarden, NL, 2025
Art Rotterdam, Galerie FrankTaal, Rotterdam, NL, 2025
Connected, Galerie FrankTaal, Rotterdam, NL, 2025
- Unseen, Galerie RonMandos, Amsterdam, NL 2024
- Sometimes it snows in april, galerie pouloeuff, Naarden, NL 2024
- UNIQUE, Beyond photography, Hangar Art Center, Brussels, BE 2024
- Best of Graduates Legacy, Galerie Ron Mandos, Art Rotterdam, NL 2024
- The new Current, Brutus, Rotterdam, NL 2024
- SBK Sprouts Young Talents Awards 2023, SBK Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2023
- Arty Party: Photography Graduates 2023, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, NL 2023
- Best of Graduates 2023, Galerie Ron Mandos, Young Blood Foundation, Amsterdam, NL 2023
- Dammerung , Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam, NL 2023
- Icoon, MINIM.AL Longing for Donald Judd, hoek van holland, NL 2023.
- Huis van de Fotografie, Se retrouver To be Lost and Found, Rotterdam, NL 2020