Federico Farinatti is a Zurich-based photographer with a background in architecture.

After graduating from the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and working with various architecture firms, he devoted himself to photography, focusing on the documentation of built and unbuilt spaces. His work is characterised by precise framing, a deliberate process and the pursuit of multilayered visual narration. He collaborates with architects, academic institutions and artists in Switzerland and abroad. His work has been widely published and exhibited at Indievisuals AG, Photo Schweiz 23, F’AR Lausanne and the Rohde Island School of Design. In 2018 won First Prize in SIA’s 2018 Cultural Heritage photographic
competition.

In 2021 was teaching assistant with Jan Kinsbergen at Porto Academy Summer Schoo. Since 2023 he has been a teaching assistant at Maria Conen Chair for Architecture & Housing at ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture.