Rosa Cinelli holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Information and Communication Studies jointly awarded by the University of Milan and Université Côte d’Azur. She is associate researcher at Paris 8 University, within the research laboratory “Paragraphe”, as well as within the ASR research project at and the project SCALAE. Her research investigates how images operate as technological devices within epistemic regimes of truth, examining the transformation of visual proof across different media, from forensic photography and trial archives to OSINT practices, aerial imagery, and extended reality media. On these themes she authored and co-authored the chapters “Fake” and “Forensic” in the volume Il postfotografico (Einaudi, 2024). In 2019 she earned a diploma in photography from the Riccardo Bauer School in Milan. Since 2025 she is also a correspondent for Il giornale dell’Arte, where she writes about contemporary photography.
