Emanuele D'Ancona is a photographer and set designer born in Chieti, class of '92. He graduated in theater design from the IUAV University of Venice and has been working in the theater and film industry for years. In the theater, he designed the sets for the opera "Betly" by G. Donizetti, directed by Stefano Monti on the occasion of the Swiss National Gift Centenary in 2019 in Zurich, and "L'Ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio" by Davide Cavuti, based on the Premio Campiello novel by Remo Rapino, for the 2022 theater season at the Teatro Marrucino in Chieti. In the same year, in cinema, he worked on the set design for the documentary film "Oltre il confine," presented at the Venice Film Festival, directed by Davide Cavuti. As a photographer, he exhibited his photographic projects at the Imagoars Gallery in Venice in 2018, at the Locanda del Poeta in Collalto Sabino in 2021, and at the Gianni di Venanzo International Prize 2022 in Teramo, as part of the "Le Emozioni Fotografiche" contest, winning the first prize for the best black and white photo. His reportage photographs are featured in two academic catalogs by researcher Lia Wei, titled "Lithic Impression: from stone to ink on paper" (2018) and "Lithic Impression II" (2019). In 2023, he participated in the Fotografia Europea Off in Reggio Emilia with the project "En -Camino" and presented the eponymous photographic book at the Salone Internazionale del Libro in Turin.