Alba Zari

Alba Zari is a visual artist working with photography and film. She was born in Thailand in 1987 and lived there until the age of eight. In Italy, she first lived in Trieste, then in Bologna, where she studied cinema at DAMS. She specialized in photography and visual design at NABA in Milan and studied documentary photography at the International Center of Photography in New York.

With The Y – Research of Biological Father (2017) she won the 6th edition of the Premio Graziadei per la Fotografia and was selected for Foam Talent 2020. The book was published by Witty Books in 2019, and the work was exhibited at the London Art Fair (2019) and at the Circulation(s) festival in Paris (2020).

With Occult, on the propaganda of the Children of God sect into which she was born, she received the special jury prize at the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/2022. The work was exhibited at MAXXI in Rome in 2021.

Her short film Freikörperkultur was presented at the Settimana della Critica in Venice in 2021. Her first feature-length documentary, White Lies (2025), premiered at the Festival dei Popoli and screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2026.