Nicolò Rinaldi is a documentary photographer and visual researcher born in 1995. His hometown is Genoa, Italy. He is the founder of the creative studio Lucid Dreams. His work looks at the relationship between humans and nature. He is interested in how landscapes change through human intervention and infrastructure. Since 2021, he has also documented social topics such as overtourism.
In 2024, he won the STRATEGIA FOTOGRAFIA fellowship from the Italian Ministry of Culture with the project W.E.I.R.D. The project looks at places where humans imitate or replace nature, such as theme parks, zoos, aquariums and museum dioramas. The fellowship gave him a one month artist residency in Kyoto. In 2025, W.E.I.R.D. had a solo exhibition at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa.
