Giorgia Fiorio
ITALIA
Giorgia Fiorio is an Italian photographer born in Turin, she is also the author, founder and artistic director of the international photographic seminar: Reflexions Masterclass. In 2009, she received the patronage of UNESCO with her book The Gift. Her work revolves around the human figure.
Drawing from the tradition of black and white real-life photography, Giorgia Fiorio's work has evolved over the past twenty years.
The first decade - 1990/1999 - she created "Men": entry into one of the closed communities of men in Western society (bullfighters, legionnaires, firemen, boxers ...)
Between 2000 and 2009, she was interested in the relationship between the Individual and the Sacred, and created "The Gift", a humanistic investigation.
Finally, since 2010, she has been working on "Humanum", a project that links the relationship to the cultural heritage of ancient statuary and the transmission of collective visual memory.
She has published numerous books in France, Italy, Germany, Greece and the United States.
France by Actes Sud / Italy by Peliti Associati, Edizioni Contrasto and Motta Editore / Germany by Braus Edition; Greece by Apeiron Photo / USA by Aperture.
Her work has been published in magazines in 15 different countries around the world.
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Men
Giorgia Fiorio took these photographs over the course of ten years in different countries, including Russia, the United States and Spain, a series of reports on men living and working in close communities. These are men who put their bodies to the test: boxers, miners, legionnaires, bullfighters, firemen, sailors... She has shared their daily existence, followed their intense activity, known their fatigue, their doubts. Today, the time for reflection has come, the desire to take a step back from the long work accomplished. This selection of Giorgia Fiorio's work, gathered in the portfolio Des hommes presented in this exhibition, is animated by a movement that takes us from the group to the individual, to the being; like a quest that crosses these different communities and their social function to approach a more inner reality and sometimes touch the tragic. Something that ultimately unites all these men, beyond their actions.