Seedgraphy explores how the anthotype photographic technique, can visualize the threat to seeds, increasingly endangered by colonial agricultural practices and climate change. Set in Bolivia and part of DecoLawBiodiv research project, it advocates for Indigenous seed sovereignty and biodiversity, through a decolonial lens.
The prints arrangement, inspired to the Circle of Dialogue of Wisdom approach, depicts 8 environments, each symbolised by a native species, through 5 different years, visualising the degraded situation of the fields because of intensive agriculture, wood extraction and cattle ranching, causing the typical squares land shaping more and more violently present.
The ID of the plant that represents the area and the coordinates are displayed on the handmade table structure, together with a sample of the pigment used for the prints.
Like the forest, the prints are fragile and precarious, subject to disappearance, to show how design can visualise a real and irreversible threat.
Seedgraphy proposes art as a medium to highlight the need of a biodiverse future.
Plant ID
These cards are part of Seedgraphy physical installation and they are designed to be placed into a handmade display table and printed into thick recycled paper. The ID of the plant serves as an insight into the scientific classification of the species taken into exam.
How Censorship influences Information
Global Glitch Gazette is an interactive installation exploring internet censorship and shutdowns in 16 countries across four continents. Focusing on data from 2022 (sourced from Freedomhouse.org and the KIO Report), the project analyzes how national information systems shape the way news is disseminated or distorted online. Visitors interact with the piece by selecting a country and viewing a glitched video of a major event from the past decade , the intensity of the visual and audio glitches reflects the level of censorship (on a 0–100 scale). Additional “Access Denied” black screens simulate the frequency of internet shutdowns, raising awareness of the global disparity in access to free information.
A growing ecosystem through book sharing and plant sowing
Culturae Cultura is an interactive bio-art installation and prototype library that promotes the exchange of knowledge and seeds. Visitors are invited to leave a book, with seeds inside, as a symbolic and practical gesture of sharing ideas and encouraging plant growth. Equipped with Raspberry Pi sensors, the installation monitors rainwater levels, humidity, and pH to assess the health of the environment and signal irregularities linked to climate change. The project highlights the relationship between regular rainfall (as a sign of environmental balance) and the flourishing of both nature and culture. Developed during a workshop with TeleAgriculture – A Cloud/Crowd Data Network for Creative Cultivation, the installation aims to create a new ecosystem where cultural exchange and ecological awareness grow hand in hand.
EXPLORE THE SPACE
This project explores the concept of liminal space as a psychological and immersive environment, an unstructured, dreamlike dimension shaped by the presence and free will of the viewer. Just as the photographs exclude the human figure, the space they inhabit is also non-human in scale: solitary, suspended, and intangible. Designed as a virtual exhibition, it questions how individuals behave when unobserved, offering visitors an opportunity to interact freely, like a social experiment. Set in the Metaverse, the project uses virtual reality to extend the artistic experience into a navigable, body-responsive portfolio. Drawing from Neal Stephenson’s original concept of the Metaverse in Snow Crash (1992), it reflects on how digital spaces now enable new forms of communication and self-expression. The work asserts that interactive, immersive formats foster deeper, more personal engagement between users and art.
Libro Sinistro is a one-of-a-kind photographic book created between 2018 and 2019, built around the concept of feeling out of place, metaphorically linked to being left-handed. The book features an interactive, disorienting reading experience, especially for right-handed readers, through, not only the opposite direction of reading, but also through mirrored text, that can only be read using a mirror placed on the left-hand page.
The project weaves together visual, textual, and structural oppositions, drawing from idioms, clichés, invented narratives, poetry, and religious references, all exploring the notion of nonconformity and inversion in an ironic and metaphysical tone.
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A series of graphic designs created to promote the national tour of Iconografie magazine across Italy. Each visual combines bold typography, color-coded atmospheres, and layered imagery to reflect the unique theme and location of each event, while maintaining a cohesive editorial identity across platforms and formats.
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A graphic and photographic supports the visual identity of Sarah Levy, Belgian designer and recipient of the ANDAM Accessories Prize. Known for her timeless yet inventive approach, Levy redefines accessories through hybrid forms, refined craftsmanship, and upcycled materials. The visuals highlight her pragmatic vision, where bold design meets functionality and durability, showcasing iconic pieces like the Habit 23 key bracelet and transformable gloves in a clean, material-focused composition.
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Mutamento by Julie Franco is a fashion collection that explores transformation through the lens of gender transition and bodily metamorphosis.
The graphic design of the images, featured on ID Italy, amplifies this vision with a distinctly retrofuturistic aesthetic: synthetic textures, 3D-inspired compositions, and glitch effects immerse the viewer in a hybrid space between virtuality and embodiment. The grid backgrounds, surreal interiors, and chromatic distortions create an atmosphere suspended between sci-fi and simulation, where bodies appear both real and augmented. Graphic elements are not mere decoration but active agents of meaning, enhancing the narrative of mutation and identity reconstruction.
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Editorial design for Iconografie, an italian magazine exploring the spirit of the 21st century. I curated in a team the overall editorial design, including layout composition, typographic choices, and visual hierarchy. My work focused on creating a clear and dynamic structure that supports the content and reflects the contemporary themes addressed in the publication.
a l i c e m a s s o n e
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Born in 1998, Alice Massone is a photographer and media artist with a background in Photography from IED Milan and a Master’s degree in Media & Information Design from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels.
Her practice explores photography as a gateway to expanded media, spanning AI, bio art, information design, and visual communication in multiple media. Her research investigates themes such as interspecies intelligence, anthropocentric frameworks, and the impact of climate change, through a visual language rooted in surrealism and metaphysical aesthetics.
She currently lives and works in Brussels.
IED - Istituto Europeo di Design
Milan
Bachelor Degree
2023 - 2025 Media & Information Design
Luca School of Arts
Brussels
Master Degree
Still life photography for e-commerce and social media Featured on VOGUE ITALIA
2019 - 2023
Green Wise Italy (IT)
Still life photography for website and social media
Featured on ELLE DECOR Italy
2020
ACT N.1 (IT)
Photographer and photo retoucher
2021
Ca’ Del Bosco (IT)
Still life photography for social media
2021
Biffi Boutiques (IT)
Photographer assistant and photo retoucher
2021 - 2025
Sarah Levy (BE)
Photographer and graphic design for social media
2024
Iconografie - Undermedia (IT - remote)
Editor, graphic designer and website
2024 - present
Bosco Aureo - Cascina San Giorgio
curated by Annalisa Insinna
2022
The Metaverse Needs the Sea
Ex Fornace Gola
curated by Francesca Rossi Minelli
2023
Graduation Show 2025
Campus Sint-Lukas Brussels
Luca School of Arts
2025
Hardcover book by Artsted
Artisfact ltd
2023
Artist Spotlight
Interview by Artsted
2022
ArtNomade Milano
Interview by Elisabetta Roncati
2022
Seedgraphy: une archive décoloniale des semences
Presentation at Maison Des Sciences De L’Homme
Uliège
2024
Liminal is a photographic project of formal experimentation that explores my personal interpretation of liminality, the in-between, the transitional, the undefined. Through minimal digital interventions, the images investigate the space between material presence and abstraction, where objects lose their functional identity and become symbolic forms. The compositions are built upon geometric tensions, contrasts of texture, and calibrated light, creating a suspended visual language. Liminal becomes a reflection on perception itself: a threshold space where vision pauses, and meaning begins to shift.
A Utopian Tale of Birth is a narrative project shot on film inspired by solarpunk ideals, imagining a future where life emerges only through a harmonious relationship between humans and nature. Set in a post-climate-crisis world where rising sea levels have submerged much of the Earth, humans have adapted to aquatic life. Water, both deeply familiar and mysterious, becomes central: we are born in it, and now, we are born from it. Hydroponics dominates food production, diets are plant-based, and killing animals is criminalized. New life begins in insulating bubbles, like insects in terrariums, nurtured by terrestrial water. Vision, symbolized through recurring imagery of eyes, becomes a metaphor for both perception and imagination. The project's aesthetic blends solarpunk and dreamcore, placing the eye at the core of its visual language.
Quereinsteiger is a project born from my long-standing interest in the German language that culminates in my Bachelor thesis. It aims to decode seemingly untranslatable words through photography, presented in a virtual exhibition. Rather than relying on verbal explanation, the project uses the universal language of symbols: objects interacting according to the laws of physics generate meaning through their spatial, formal, and chromatic relationships. The accompanying materials and images guide the viewer into my narrative interpretation of these words.
This project, created in collaboration with fashion designer and 3D artist Julie Franco, explores Julie’s identity as a trans woman and the way she expresses her transformation through art and fashion. Through six narrative photographs, the project portrays her ethereal and almost divine presence, using metaphor, symbolism, and mythology as guiding elements. Julie wears pieces from her Mutamento collection, which reflect both euphoria and dysphoria tied to her body. The imagery incorporates powerful symbols: the Moon (magic and sexuality), the Iris (gender duality), the Butterfly (metamorphosis of body and soul), Tears (emotional and physical purification), and Glass (transparency and transformation). The result is a poetic visual narrative of identity, change, and self-expression.
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This series explores the sculptural potential of hair design, blending elegance and surrealism in a minimal set. Each look becomes a visual statement, where the hairstyle transcends its functional role to become a central element of the composition and mood.
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Artistic still life series featuring contemporary jewelry by Arteficeria. This visual exploration reinterprets the pieces through a poetic dialogue with organic forms, textures, and soft-focus compositions. The jewelry is not simply documented, but staged as sculptural presences within surreal and minimal environments, blurring the line between object and artwork.
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Christmas social campaing 2021.
This visual narrative elevates the Prestige Cuvée into a sculptural icon, framed by dancing ribbons of gold foil, reflective light, and rich textures. Each image conveys the spirit of celebration and luxury, transforming the bottle into a centerpiece of holiday wonder.
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Each image interprets the jewelry as poetic micro-sculptures, carefully staged in natural, surreal or symbolic compositions. The visual language enhances the artisanal detail and conceptual depth of each piece, reflecting Bona Calvi’s unique blend of nature-inspired forms and contemporary design. Several of these pictures were featured on VOGUE ITALIA.
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This series visually captures the brand’s fresh and playful identity through carefully composed sets, soft tones, and symbolic elements. Each image enhances the product’s character and function, creating a dreamy yet tactile aesthetic that blends skincare and storytelling.
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The images present the jewelry as organic extensions of the landscape, delicately arranged on textured materials and minimal compositions. Through a poetic and tactile aesthetic, the pieces reveal their raw elegance, inviting a slower and more intimate gaze
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These compositions reflect the Japanese brand’s philosophy of gentle aesthetics and botanical minimalism. Each arrangement celebrates the natural form and seasonal presence of flowers and foliage, emphasizing balance, imperfection, and the silent beauty of the ephemeral. Several of these pictures were featured on ELLE DECOR Italy .
Discombombulate is a visual research project exploring the interplay of form and weight within photographic composition. Everyday objects are detached from their original function and reimagined in a surreal, dreamlike dimension, where utility gives way to a choreography of color and shape. The project was developed in collaboration with set designer Stefano Cornili.
Art Film
Seeds are living guardians of genetic information and they encapsulate the history of human civilization, but are increasingly endangered by climate change and decades of colonial agricultural practices.The first output of the project took place at Here Be Dragons exhibition in Luca School of Arts, that showcased the work in progress of the research. My medium, photography, needed to be brought into a more sustainable form, which happened to be anthotype. It is a very old and completely organic technique, discovered by 1839 by Sir John Herschel, that affects the discoloration of photosensitive pigments from plants, when exposed to UV light. By covering parts of the emulsion with flat objects, these ones provide an image.The video you see here explores how does it feel like to use this technique, the textures, the procedures of pigment extraction, the methods and the emotions linked to it.
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Video project exploring the emotional and cognitive dimensions of Alzheimer’s disease. I curated the visual storytelling, pacing, and tone to convey the fragility of memory and the human experience behind neurodegeneration. The project blends documentary elements with poetic visuals to foster empathy and awareness.
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Corporate video for Teresa La Fosca - Public Relations and Press Office, Milan. This project highlights the agency’s identity, values, and distinctive approach to communication through a refined visual narrative. I worked on the creative direction, the script, the editing and the recording, to convey a visual coherence to professionalism and elegance.