Ursula Ferrara is an Italian photographer, painter and animation film director. She started with her father’s Leica at the age of 13 and studied analogic photograpy at the Florence Academy, Italy. She took a PhD in film animation. She is passionate with ancient techniques, such as Wet Plate and Gum Bichromate, and continues to experiment, with self-built cameras for ultralarge format photography, including recently a camera van.