Edition 2015

The Cool Couple

Niccolò Benetton was born in 1986 in Arzignano, Italy. He lives and works in Milan, Italy. 
Simone Santilli was born in 1987 in Portogruaro, Italy. He lives and works in Milan, Italy.

The Cool Couple is an artist duo founded in late 2012 by Niccolò Benetton and Simone Santilli. Their work focuses on the daily relationships people have with various forms of collective representations, in an attempt to highlight the friction points in contemporary imagery. The idea of photography as
 a collective behavior leads 
the artists to the use of a variety
 of languages, ranging from video installation to sculpture. The Cool Couple’s work has been exhibited at CCC Strozzina (Florence), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice), Unseen Photography Fair (Amsterdam), and Circulations Festival (Centquatre, Paris).
 In 2014, they won the Francesco Fabbri Award for contemporary photography and were shortlisted at Kassel Fotobook Festival.
  • Institutional partners

    • République Française
    • Région Provence Alpes Côté d'Azur
    • Département des Bouches du Rhône
    • Arles
    • Le Centre des monuments nationaux est heureux de soutenir les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles en accueillant des expositions dans l’abbaye de Montmajour
  • Main partners

    • Fondation LUMA
    • BMW
    • SNCF
    • Kering
  • Media partners

    • Arte
    • Lci
    • Konbini
    • Le Point
    • Madame Figaro
    • France Culture