Rosa Cinelli holds a PhD in Philosophy and Information and Communication Sciences, awarded through an international joint doctoral programme between the University of Milan and Université Côte d’Azur. She has conducted research and teaching activities at Université Paris 8, where she held the position of Attachée Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche (ATER) in Information and Communication Sciences.
Her research lies at the intersection of aesthetics, visual culture and media studies, exploring the relationships between photography, digital visual culture, immersive media and artificial intelligence. In particular, she focuses on the evidentiary value of images, forensic aesthetics and emerging forms of post-photographic imagery.
Her publications include the essays Fake and Forensiche (the latter co-authored with Barbara Grespi and Giuseppe Previtali), both published in Il Postfotografico. Dal selfie alla fotogrammetria digitale (Einaudi, 2024), and Fuori taglio. Strategie di scorniciamento della fotografia nei media di realtà estesa, published in Blink postfotografico. Teorie, pratiche e derive delle immagini ibride (Postmedia, 2025).
She graduated in Photography from the Scuola Riccardo Bauer in Milan in 2019 and contributes to Fata Morgana Web and Il Giornale dell’Arte, writing about contemporary photography.
