Andrea Botto (Rapallo, 1973), is an Italian fine-art photographer and lecturer. Interested in the cross-pollination of various contemporary art mediums, he uses photography as a means of dissecting the world in order to express its complexity and to expose its stratifications. Time, collective imagination, as well as the current transformations that mark the present age, are the key themes of his work, which explores the unstable equilibrium that governs the landscape, through the aesthetics of creative destruction. His projects have been acknowledged by grants and awards and have been exhibited in international museums, including Bundeskusthalle in Bonn (2005), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2005), Stiftung Kultur in Cologne (2006), MAXXI in Rome (2007-2016-2021), Fundacion Canal Isabel II in Madrid (2007), MoCA in Shanghai (2010), Villa Croce in Genoa and Benaki Museum in Athens (2015), Kolkata Centre for Creativity (2019), MuFoCo in Milan and BTV Stadtforum in Innsbruck (2022), Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome (2023). His works are to be found in private and public collections. He carries out and manages editorial and corporate projects, specializing in decommissioning and infrastructure projects. He cooperates with public authorities and multidisciplinary groups for the study of landscape, with particular attention to geology, environment and memory of historical events. Along with the professional activity, Botto usually gives lectures and educational workshops and he is in charge of several cultural events. He is currently professor of Documentary Photography at the Ligustic Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa. From 2006 to 2011 he was the artistic director of the Rapallo Contemporary Photography Festival. He taught at IED in Turin and at Fondazione Fotografia in Modena. He is one of the founding members of the artistic collective Fotoromanzo Italiano.