Claudio Capanna was born in Rome in 1980. As a film graduate of University of Rome, he dedicated his final thesis to the German director Werner Herzog. He started working in the audiovisual sector in 1999 and has directed several documentaries and short movies that premiered at international festivals.
In 2006, he moved to Paris to attend the Ateliers Varan film course. There, he started to work for Arte France and directed several documentaries about Italy. Until nowadays he works with several broadcast european television and communication agency (RTBF, Rai, Al Jazeera, SVT, RTS, Youtube, Vice Virtue, European Commission ).
His first feature-length documentary film “Life to Come” was produced by Arte, RTBF, Proxymus TV, Al Jazeera Documentary Television and it was screening in some of the biggest documentary festivals in the world, like IDFA, DOK Leipzig and Hot-Docs.
He approached analogue photography in 2005, specializing in black and white.
Mater is his first photographic book, curated by Steve Bisson, founder of Urbanautica Institute
He currently lives and works in Brussels.