Lorenzo Poli is an Italian-born, UK-based visual artist and architect whose work explores the sacred oneness between humanity and nature.
After over a decade leading architectural R&D at Foster + Partners for Apple projects, Poli shifted from the construction of modernity to a metaphysical investigation aimed at reconciling the human–Nature divide.
Over the past four years, through self-immersion in the natural world and planetary journeys from Norway to Antarctica and through the Amazon, he has traversed untamed biomes, ancestral territories, DNA laboratories, and anthropogenic voids carved by extraction.
Drawing from the humanities, Indigenous knowledge, and spiritual ecology, Poli envisions a post-Anthropocene future in which Earth and humanity co-evolve in regenerative and symbiotic harmony.
His series Life on Earth earned the 2022 Sony World Photography Award (Landscape), praised for revealing the ethereal magic of untamed Nature; his ongoing investigation Geoglyphs of the Anthropocene received recognition in 2025 from the Sony World Photography Awards, UNESCO WWAP/OneWater, among others, and won Earth Photo 2025 at the Royal Geographical Society.
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