Gilda Bruno is a London-based freelance multimedia journalist, editor, and photographer with six years of experience covering the intersection of culture and society, currently serving as Livingetc’s Lifestyle Editor. Here, she reports on the ever-converging worlds of art, design, travel, and hospitality with a critical eye towards trends that reflect broader social discussions in contemporary living, interviewing some of the most forward-thinking names on the cultural scene, signing exclusive conversations with the production designers behind your favourite films, and just-as-topical edits of anything from rising destinations for discerning globetrotters to monthly moments destined to shake creativity and beyond.

Besides curating Instagram reels and carousels taking an inside look at the most anticipated happenings and the latest openings, like she does for her monthly series of London reccomendations, Worth a Detour, Gilda also heads Livingetc’s new commentary series, The Meaning of Home, an ongoing collection of essays, interviews, and personal stories reflecting on the big questions that “shape, undo, and rewrite the way we live, think, and feel between our domestic walls, what our spaces say about us — and the concealed universes they embody — by tapping into culture, psychology, history, politics, storytelling, and economics.”

Writing in both English and Italian, she has contributed to AnOther, Apartamento, The British Journal of Photography, DAZED, Document Journal, Elephant, The Face, Family Style, Financial Times, Foam, HUCK, Hunger, i-D, The Londoner, National Geographic Traveller UK, PAPER, Re-Edition, VICE, and Vogue Italia, to name a few. She also collaborates regularly with WePresent and Il Giornale dell’Arte (the Italian sister edition of The Art Newspaper). While most of her articles examine how art and wider culture can be used as a means of promoting positive societal shifts, Gilda has delved into other topical subjects, too – from the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire and its survivors’ ongoing quest for justice, which she surveyed in-depth in an interactive longform integrating original reporting, photography, video, podcast, and infographics for the educational arm of Italy’s leading financial and political newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore, and the rise of startups fighting against climate change, to the implications of higher education’s skyrocketing costs. She is Editor of COSE Journal, an independent magazine exploring our relationships to everyday objects and their functions against the backdrop of overconsumption and capitalism. Between July 2021 and February 2024, Gilda worked as an Editorial Assistant on the print edition of AnOther. In October 2023, she joined the Life & Arts desk of the Financial Times as a casual Production Journalist, Sub-Editor, and Writer, completing monthly shifts for a year before joining Livingetc.

Gilda has profiled many acclaimed personalities, including Four Daughters and The Voice of Hind Rajab director Kaouther Ben Hania, Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins, Magnum Photos image-makers Alessandra Sanguinetti and Martin Parr, street photography legend Jamel Shabazz, multidisciplinary artist Yoann Bourgeois, and visionary photographer Viviane Sassen. She has also penned an essay on the lure of Portofino for Apartamento Publishing’s debut recipe book with luxury hospitality group Belmond, Liguria: Recipes and Wanderings Along the Italian Riviera, the first volume in an ongoing series exploring iconic global destinations.

Her curation and industry accolades extend into digital platforms and live forums. Between December 2022 and November 2023, she edited a fortnightly art & culture column for now-defunct ITV-backed platform Woo, Stop Scrolling, bringing readers bi-weekly roundups of exhibitions, art fairs, and photo books alongside exclusive conversations with thought-provoking creative voices. In April 2023, Gilda was named in the prestigious 30 Under 30 list by Il Giornale dell'Arte, celebrating the artists, curators, and writers reshaping today’s art scene. An active voice in live cultural dialogues, Gilda regularly moderates panel talks and writes literary introductions. In May 2023, she hosted a conversation between independent publishing house New Dimension’s founder Ben Goulder and photographer and director Sam Wright for the launch of Wright’s book The City of the Sun (2023), for which Gilda authored the foreword. The event took place at Tate Modern during the annual Offprint book fair weekend. Her words also offered the introduction to photographer Dani d’Ingeo’s debut monograph, New Order (2022), an intimate chronicle of queer friendships set against the southern Italian coastline. Gilda has additionally appeared in and chaired roundtables at Salone del Mobile and Roca London Gallery.