WHY PHOTOGRAPHY?
I have been always interested in photography. From 1962 to 1974 I documented more that 100 jazz concerts, for the Italian magazine “Musica Jazz”, then managed by my father Arrigo, who was a well known jazz critic, concert organizer and jazz historician.
Afterwards, my involvment in the computer software industry left no time for photography. I came back to it a few years ago, and went digital. No more jazz, but different themes related to street arts. More recently, I’ve been exploring color fine art photography based on long exposure times.
My jazz photos have been published mainly on jazz magazines, including Musica Jazz, JazzIt, Jazz Magazine and others, on LP and CD covers, on books, including Stasera Jazz by my father, and have been presented in many personal exhibitions in Italy.
In 2006 I published a photographic book, with a large sample of my jazz photos: Swing, bob & free – Il jazz degli anni 60. Here you can find some images from this book:
I also travelled the world to photograph the best street art. Here some examples (you can find 1000 photos on my flickr street-art page):
Here are some examples of what I’m doing nowadays. These are from Morocco, and inspired to 19th century orientalistic watercolors:
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MY PHOTOS ON THE WEB:
You can find my photos on my three flickr albums:
- Jazz photos (B&W, 1962-1974)
- Fine art photos (mainly color, digital, from 2007)
- Street-art photos (color, from 2004: street-art from all over the world)
Here you can find my online photographic books on blurb.
Jazz blogs (among others):
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PERSONAL EXIBITIONS
Permanent
- Stasera Jazz (National Center of Jazz Studies “Arrigo Polillo” – Fondazione Siena Jazz, Siena). Over 60 traditional 40×50 cm prints of jazz masters portraits, in the Siena Fortezza Medicea.
Temporary
- JAZZ’60/STREET ART 2000 (jazz: 52 traditional prints; street-art: 45 digital prints – first time on exhibition!)
Milano, The Don Gallery, Via Cola Montano 15, Milano, 15 -28 May 2012
- Jazz ’60 (52 traditional prints).
Milano, Anteo Spazio Cinema, 12 Feb – 25 Mar 2012.
- Jazz ’60 (35 traditional prints). See a selection from the exhibition.
- Milano, Auditorium, 5 – 30 Oct 2011
- Il Jazz tra Europa e America (traditional prints)
- Lugano, Biblioteca Cantonale, 14 Jan – 19 Feb 2011 (extended to April 2011)
- Jazz 60 (traditional prints)
- Milano, 4 Dec 2010 – 25 Feb 2011
In All You Need Is Photography, Unlimited edition photo festival
- Swing,Bop & Free – Jazz of the Sixties (giant digital prints).
- This was an important exhibition of large digital panels from my book, held in the courtyard of the Siena Palazzo Pubblico, Jul 9 – Aug 8, 2007
- Swing, Bop & Free (40 traditional prints)
- Moncalieri, 12-15 Nov 2009 (Fonderie Teatrali Limone)
- Sorrento, Aug 29 – Sep 4, 2009 (Chiostro di S.Francesco)
- Terni, Jun 23 – 28, 2009 (Galleria DA.CO.)
- Roma, Oct 22 – Dic 2, 2008 (FNAC)
- Napoli, Sept 15 – Oct 19, 2008 (FNAC)
- Verona, Mar 5 – 21, 2008 (FNAC)
- Torino Le Gru, Jan 9 – Feb 21, 2008 (FNAC)
- Genova, Sept 17 – Oct 29, 2007 (FNAC)
- Milano, Jun 20 – Jul 25, 2007 (FNAC)
- Torino, Mar 28 – Apr 26, 2007 (FNAC)
- I giganti del jazz (traditional prints, with Riccardo Schwamenthal):
- Vicenza, LAMeC, May 5 – 21, 2006
- Biella, Villa Schneider, Oct 16 – Nov 7, 2004
- Rozzano, Centro Culturale Cascina Grande, Sept 7 – Oct 1, 2002
