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Lorenzo Ferrarini

@lorenzoferrarini.com
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Lecturer at Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester | Ethnographic documentary filmmaker, photographer and sound recordist | Worked in Burkina Faso and Italy lorenzoferrarini.com

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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 21/07/2026
The new #AiWeiwei exhibition Button Up! opened last week here in Manchester and it's a seriously impressive display for its scale, historical scope, diversity of themes and materials... extremely powerful.
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 18/06/2026
The past two weeks have been very intense but rewarding, teaching the short course in ethnographic documentary, training people of different backgrounds to make their first short films granadacentre.co.uk/short
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 16/03/2026
Hydrophone recordings at Three Shires Head, last Saturday
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 03/03/2026
Happening on the 18th of March: online info session about our MA in Visual Anthropology. Please tell your students and anyone who might be interested www.manchester.ac.uk/study/master...
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 02/02/2026
It was my first time rocking this amazing rig
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 02/02/2026
From Saturday's shoot, helping out a colleague with her documentary project
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 15/09/2025
I made something with some wood offcuts... sapele and flamed maple box finished with blonde shellac, about cm 40Wx13Dx16H
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 08/08/2025
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 04/08/2025
Our summer school closed with a two-day event where the students presented the works they made during these two weeks to the community that hosted them
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 30/07/2025
Learning 360 degree video with Rossella Schillaci and Giovanni Cestino
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 30/07/2025
More from Leandro's workshop
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 30/07/2025
Byzantine wedding in San Costantino Albanese, last Saturday
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 28/07/2025
Masterclass with Leandro Pisano on sonic ethnography and rural marginality - yesterday as part of our summer school
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 25/07/2025
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 24/07/2025
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 22/07/2025
Irish film director Pat Collins started today his masterclass for the 12 lucky students of our summer school
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 20/07/2025
The course is finally starting tomorrow
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 17/07/2025
Bloomsbury strikes again. The book stops at page 176 and the begin the endnotes of a completely unrelated work
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 15/07/2025
Our summer school will include open air screenings open to everybody. In the event that any of you be around those parts, come check some of these out:
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 01/04/2025
Super small DMS setup with a Radius mini alto 115 blimp
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 25/02/2025
Goodbye Côte d'Ivoire, it's been a month full of work and ideas, sights, sounds and smells I'd been missing in all these years away from west Africa
Lorenzo Ferrarini standing in front of a large Macrotermes termite nest
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 21/02/2025
Short trip to the village of Kapélé yesterday, where M. Konaté showed me the way he shapes and paints clay beads for his beautiful necklaces
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 20/02/2025
Inside a termite nest. The architecture of these things is impressive - all made with no plan, just swarm intelligence
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 14/02/2025
More termites: tonight it was the first serious rainfall of the year and in the morning the yard was full of these tiny alates (probably of Cubitermes)
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 12/02/2025
Using OAKA Tellus on a drill bit inserted in the termite nest
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 12/02/2025
Fascinating day photographing and filming termites (macrotermes), but I especially enjoyed recording the sounds they make when attacking intruders with contact microphones
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 09/02/2025
It was challenging and moving and especially good to see them after six years
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 09/02/2025
Over 10 days I presented each chapter, screened films, gathered feedback, criticism and suggestions - asked and answered questions
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 09/02/2025
Thanks to a Research Fellowship by @leverhulme.bsky.social I've had the most unique opportunity to discuss my book manuscript on the knowledge of donso hunters in Burkina Faso with its protagonists
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 29/01/2025
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 10/01/2025
Last one
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 10/01/2025
A few more, this time with focus stacking
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 09/01/2025
Trying some backyard macro photography
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 07/01/2025
London
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 29/12/2024
Milan, Italy
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 16/12/2024
Samogohiri, Burkina Faso, 2012
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 04/12/2024
At the presentation of Soumhya Venkatesan's new book Decolonising Anthropology with the students who collaborated to the development of the text
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 03/12/2024
Currently writing a chapter about about hunting, perception and the environment in my upcoming book
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 28/11/2024
Karankasso Sambla, Burkina Faso, 2012
A man playing a xylophone in a field
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 24/11/2024
Viggianello, Italy, 2016
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Lorenzo Ferrarini @lorenzoferrarini.com · 20/11/2024
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