Gian Marco Magnani works in cultural project design in the fields of photography and cinema. Since 2010 he has been collaborating with the Fototeca Manfrediana in Faenza, where he is dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of local photographic archives, exploring the relationship between visual heritage and territorial identity. He is president of the Cineclub Il Raggio Verde and organisational director of the NOAM Faenza Film Festival.

The Fototeca Manfrediana is a non-profit cultural institution active in Faenza since the seventies. In 2010 it was relaunched under new management, which expanded its activities and photographic archive, now among the most organised and frequently consulted in the Faenza area. It preserves and promotes over one hundred and fifty years of local visual memory, promoting photography as a language and a tool of collective identity through exhibitions, publications, events, and research projects.