Livia Marchetti is a photographer based in Milan. Born in Ravenna in 1988, she studied at the Istituto Superiore di Fotografia in Rome and worked for six years as an assistant in the film labs of Bologna before beginning her own work on the coast she grew up on.

She photographs at night and at low tide, on a 4×5 field camera, in places where the land has not settled whether it is land. The negatives are contact printed and then enlarged by hand; nothing is finished in a week, and Notturno has been open since 2022.

Her work has been shown at Fondazione Fotografia in Modena and at the Rencontres d'Arles Voies Off, and is held in the collection of the Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo.

Selected exhibitions

• 2025 — Bassa Marea, Galleria del Cembalo, Rome. Solo
• 2024 — Nine Coasts, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena. Group
• 2023 — Voies Off, Rencontres d'Arles. Projection
• 2022 — Prima Luce, Spazio Labò, Bologna. Two-person

Selected publications

• Notturno, Départ Pour l'Image, 2024. 500 copies
• The Salt Line, in Aperture 251, Summer 2023
• Fifteen Nights on the Po, Witness Journal 14, 2021