Margot Errante is an Italian photographer and anthropologist whose work explores how people inhabit inner and outer environments — how physical and mental spaces influence behaviour, perception and the way we experience the world.
Her photographic career began in China, where she lived, studied and worked for more than two decades between 1997 and 2019. Based between Beijing and Hong Kong, she developed a practice spanning architectural, editorial, documentary and artistic photography, working with international publications, leading Asian architecture practices and European luxury brands. Her work has been exhibited internationally and received several awards, while her portraiture led to her recognition among Hong Kong’s Top 10 Personalities & Talents.
Alongside photography, Errante studied Chinese and cultural anthropology, with a particular focus on the relationship between identity and place. She holds a Master of Arts in Chinese Studies and a Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology of Asian Countries, and speaks five languages.
In 2004, she spent a year conducting ethnographic research in an indigenous community in the jungles of southwest China and Myanmar. Her encounter with animist traditions profoundly shaped her view of reality, and continues to inform her work and her exploration of consciousness, human interconnectedness and our relationship with the spaces we inhabit.
Her work and research have taken her across more than one hundred countries, from remote communities and landscapes to some of the world’s most rapidly transforming cities.
Seven years of studying Taoist Arts and Practices in Beijing, followed by an immersion in Mahayana Buddhism at Rongbuk Monastery at Mount Everest, further deepened her investigation into perception and consciousness.
Today, based in the hills above Lake Como and working internationally, Errante focuses her practice on architecture and the human experience of place.
Through commissioned photography, independent visual research and long-term documentary projects, she is interested not only in how architecture looks, but in what happens within it: the gestures, interactions and everyday rituals through which space becomes place.
