Stephan Brigidi, MFA, b. Providence, Rhode Island in 1951. He has been a practicing artist-teacher for more than forty years. Brigidi has been traveling and working in Italy since 1972. Brigidi is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grant awards for his photography. He is the author of five books of his photography, including Angels of Pompeii with poet Robert Bly. Most recently he published The Fire of Rome and Portrait, by Bristol Workshops Editions. Brigidi’s photographs have been acquired by more than thirty museums in the USA and Europe.
Domenico Dodaro is currently an Advocate in Dodaro Studio Legale in Rome. It is part of the Juridicum legal network. He was born in Cosenza in 1966. He graduated from the University of Rome - LUISS with a degree in law in 1989 and was admitted to the Bar of Rome in 1993. His practice consolidated in the field of commercial law, and in the field of financial law. He is a co-author of the popular best seller, The Ghosts of the Empire, published by Sellerio, Palermo in 2016.
Martina Tanga, PhD. is a modern and contemporary art historian and her research interests focus on institutional critique, alternative artistic media, art collectives, and social art practices. Her dissertation, entitled Arte Ambientale and Arte nel Sociale in Italian Art of the 1970s, looks to a number of Italian artists who chose to work on the margins of the art establishment, forming alternative exhibitions and self-managed groups. Dr. Tanga is currently the Koch Curatorial Fellow at the DeCordova Museum.