Claudia Pajewski
Claudia Pajewski, (L’Aquila, 1979) is a photographer and visual artist. Aquilan on her mother’s side, Italian-Polish on her father’s side, she lives and works in Rome, where she graduated in Social Psychology with an experimental thesis on social representations of madness. In 2011 she earned a master’s degree in journalistic criticism from the Silvio D’Amico Academy of Dramatic Art. In 2011 she receives the Polidoro award from the Abruzzo Order of Journalists. In 2012 she is first Hystrio prize for stage photography.
In her early university years she is a student of Teramo photographer Sebastiana Papa. Beginning in the mid-2000s she photographs the emerging queer countercultures, anticipators of the renewals that will redefine the new feminist wave and the LGBTQI+ communities. In the same years she collaborates with several national publications in the field of music, contemporary art and new trends. In 2013 she is in the selection of BJCEM XVI Biennial of Young Mediterranean Artists. In 2016 she publishes Le mani della città, a photographic book about migrant workers in the reconstruction of L’Aquila (Drago Publisher, edited by Michela Becchis). In 2021 she receives a commission from the MAXXI Foundation for the group show “In Itinere,” curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Fanny Borel. Bias, a photography and sound design device on the relationship between cognitive bias and climate denialism, is now part of the MAXXI Arte collection. Co-founder of the public art association Off Site Art (2014) and of Spazio Gomma (2023), she collaborates as a professional photographer with stable theaters, record labels, editorial offices, foundations and cultural institutions.
In her early university years she is a student of Teramo photographer Sebastiana Papa. Beginning in the mid-2000s she photographs the emerging queer countercultures, anticipators of the renewals that will redefine the new feminist wave and the LGBTQI+ communities. In the same years she collaborates with several national publications in the field of music, contemporary art and new trends. In 2013 she is in the selection of BJCEM XVI Biennial of Young Mediterranean Artists. In 2016 she publishes Le mani della città, a photographic book about migrant workers in the reconstruction of L’Aquila (Drago Publisher, edited by Michela Becchis). In 2021 she receives a commission from the MAXXI Foundation for the group show “In Itinere,” curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Fanny Borel. Bias, a photography and sound design device on the relationship between cognitive bias and climate denialism, is now part of the MAXXI Arte collection. Co-founder of the public art association Off Site Art (2014) and of Spazio Gomma (2023), she collaborates as a professional photographer with stable theaters, record labels, editorial offices, foundations and cultural institutions.
