French, born in 1998. Lives and works in Paris
fioragarenzi.com
@fioragarenzi
Project Supported: MP#05 –Nanna strana

Fiora Garenzi is a documentary photographer born in 1998. She studied photography, Arab world history, and geopolitics before embarking on personal projects dealing mainly with issues of community, belonging, and connection to groups and territories.
At the same time, she works for the press and various NGOs.
Her documentaries won her the SAIF prize at the Les femmes s’exposent festival in 2024 and the Laurent Troude grant in 2025.

“One day, my mother sat me down in the back seat of the midnight blue 206 that I had always known, and we left the Paris suburbs to start over somewhere in the Mediterranean.
I grew up in a village in northern Corsica. There, knowing who you are—where you belong, what history you belong to—is, I think, a little more crucial to your identity than elsewhere. When I was a teenager, my family history was a painful subject. I felt that understanding the reasons behind it would fill a void inside me. In the end, when I found out, the void was still there.
So I decided that “home” would be there. I had no memories from before, and after I left at eighteen, I hadn’t found a place where my presence made more sense. Besides, there were two people on the island who mattered to me. That was enough.”