Andrea Fiodi is an Italian documentary photographer working mainly between Italy and England.

He photographs as a way of observing and collecting fragments of reality. His work often focuses on people within their environments, exploring everyday moments, social contradictions, and the ways communities shape identity and belonging. Rather than approaching situations as an outsider, he works from a position between participant and observer, seeking closeness without becoming the protagonist.

Photography allows him to enter spaces slowly and to build familiarity with places and people over time. Many of his photographs emerge from ordinary moments encountered while moving through daily life, where small gestures and situations reveal something larger about the environments in which they occur.

Fiodi works primarily with film and produces silver gelatin prints in the darkroom. The process introduces time between taking the photograph and reflecting on it, while the negative itself remains a lasting testimony of the moment photographed.

Influenced by the humanist tradition of photography, particularly the work of Sebastião Salgado, Josef Koudelka, and Anders Petersen, his practice is driven by curiosity about how people live together, how rituals shape identity, and how landscapes carry the traces of history.

For Fiodi, photography is also a way of remembering. Like collecting stones or small objects found along a path, photographs become fragments of reality preserved over time. Returning often to the same places, he photographs them again and again, observing how people and landscapes change while the image itself remains as a trace of what once existed.