“Lucia Giacani, one of the most recognizable voices in contemporary Italian fashion photography, has progressively pushed editorial language toward a more authorial dimension. At Xposure, she presents ‘The Substance of Dreams,’ a project reflecting on the relationship between imagination, identity, and female representation. The images, strongly constructed, dialogue with art history, surrealism, and theater, transforming fashion into a narrative device. The body becomes a symbolic space and photography a place of suspension, balanced between reality and vision.”

Elena Pizzato, Journalist, Exibart

“I love Lucia’s vision of the image and the dreamlike visions her photos gift us. Like magical snow globes, they deliver timeless emotions.”

Elisabetta Barracchia, Editor in Chief,
Vogue Accessory | Vogue Gioiello

“In Lucia Giacani’s works, the complicity between those in front of and behind the lens annuls all formal distance. Her models are never passive objects, but protagonists of an intellectual staging in which fashion is the pretext for exploring identity. It is a photography that speaks of women to women, with a language made of intuition, aesthetic rigor, and a deep, silent understanding.”

Angela Madesani, Art Historian and Curator

An in-depth look at the "female point of view" in fashion, where Lucia Giacani is identified as one of the most original voices on the Italian scene. “Female photographers have appeared in the world of fashion, transforming themselves from objects of interest into narrating subjects.”

Vanity Fair, (Sguardi di Intesa)

“An exhibition that unfolds in a visual dialogue between past, present, and future, celebrating a protagonist of the Italian visual imagery. There is always something subtly subversive in Lucia Giacani's work. Behind the perfection of a silhouette or the luster of a fabric, one senses a restless beat, a psychological tension that transforms the model into an archetype. It is a beauty that questions, that does not limit itself to pleasing the eye.”

Art Tribune, (Identità Surreali)

“What fascinates at first strike, however, is the fashion photographer's ability to imbue every work with her own artistic gaze—not through a sharp, never self-complacent technique capable of dismantling the limits modern photography imposes on itself, but through a delicacy that glides over the images with a touch of ironic nostalgia, even pain, and a search for soul that reconnects these figures to the great protagonists of Western figurative art… Lucia Giacani builds for them—and thus for herself—a den of fiction, forcing them to perform, and to be themselves precisely by virtue of the fact that they are impersonating someone else. A miracle of theater and art and, with certain artists like Giacani, of photography.”

Paolo Marasca, Councilor for Culture of Ancona (Sogni Lucidi)

“In a world of male gazes upon women, Lucia Giacani restores to women the right to their own complexity. Her figures are sovereigns of their own space, never submissive to the lens. It is a photography of complicity, not of consumption.”

L’Officiel Italia

“Lucia Giacani’s photography exists in that threshold between fashion and fantasy, where the real dissolves into the surreal and beauty assumes an almost hallucinatory quality. Her images are meticulously composed, saturated with detail and rich in symbolism; every frame is a tableau vivant that blurs the boundaries between desire, identity, and illusion.”

Simon Newton, Curator, Xposure Festival

“To Lucia Giacani, for having known how to combine the rigor of technique with the poetry of dreams, bringing Italian creativity and her Marche roots to the most prestigious contexts of international photography.”

Piero Muscari, Journalist, Eccellenze Italiane

“An award for the talent of one who has known how to bring the name of Jesi and Italy to the stages of world fashion through the power of images.”

ANSA, Eccellenze Italiane

“Giacani’s photography actually evokes an excess of meaning and depth, which proceeds—despite the figurative paradoxes and the alienating fixity of her subjects—through that clarity which Saint Thomas defined as one of the properties of Beauty, in which the mystery and fullness of being appear and escape.”

Gabriele Bevilacqua, Art Critic

“Lucia Giacani is a woman who photographs women, capturing every aspect of them. Emotions, ambitions, and normality are immortalized by the camera lens and by a female eye that knows what to look for and how to express the essence of an entire universe. A woman reflecting another woman: this is the intimate reason for her work. Her gaze—naturally feminine and revolutionary—is the silent engine working behind every shot and through all her flashes.”

Vogue Italia, 2013

“Lucia Giacani is recognized for a bold, surreal, and declaredly feminine visual language that blends Italian elegance with cultured references to art history. Her images tell of layered identities, contemporary nostalgias, and bodies as sites of storytelling.”

Mauro Pigozzo, Corriere della Sera