Giorgia Fiorio
Click here for images from The Gift.Giorgia Fiorio was born in 1967 in Turin, Italy, and studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Her project Men began in 1990, a project exploring closed male communities: Ukrainian miners, New York boxers, the Foreign Legion, Spanish bullfighters, American fire fighters and Men of the Sea, "Men who are rooted in archaic worlds at home with centuries-old experiences, rituals and gestures". This project has been captured in six books, published in Paris. In 2002, Stern devoted their Spezial issue to her, and her work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Aperture, the Independent Magazine, etc. Her recent exhibition at Focus Gallery in London (2003) provided a retrospective for this wide-ranging body of work.
In 2003, she published the definitive book on her Men series: Des Hommes at Editions Marval, Paris. She has now begun work on a new long-term project, the Gift, about spirituality in different countries and cultures, in which she attempts to capture this elusive spark in the heart of man - the spiritual. "I am photographing an absence".
Awards include the Studio Marangoni Award (1993), the prix Marc Flament organised by the French Ministry of Defence for the best work of reportage (1996), and the Yan Geoffroy Award (1999). She was named Photographer of the Year for documentary photography by American Photography in 1997.
Exhibitions include: Paris, Italian Cultural Centre (2001); Rivoli, Turin, Museo Castello di Rivoli (2003) and Saarbrücken, Saarland Museum (2003).
She lives in Paris.
A selection of her works can be viewed on this website. Cyrille de Gunzburg is the sole representative of Giorgia Fiorio's works worldwide. Please contact us for further information.
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