Fabio Ponzio

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Fabio Ponzio (born September 11, 1959) is an Italian documentary photographer, winner of the "Leica Oskar Barnack Award" 1998.

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Fabio Ponzio
Born (1959-09-11) September 11, 1959 (age 64)
Milan, Italy
OccupationDocumentary photographer
Website www.fabioponzio.com

Biography

Ponzio was born in Milan in 1959. His interest in photography began in 1976, during a trip to the Balkans. [1] He worked for the Italian and international press from 1980 to 1987. [2]

In December 1987, Ponzio embarked on a photographic odyssey around remote parts of Central and Eastern Europe. [3] He photographed Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, the Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Yugoslavia and Albania, traveling by car with a tent, a stove, a sleeping bag, a Leica camera, three Nikon cameras and 100 rolls of film. [4]

In 1989 Ponzio was in Central and Eastern Europe to document the fall of the communist regimes. On June 28, 1989, he was in Kosovo to listen to Slobodan Milošević give the famous Gazimestan speech, which laid out the ideology and programme that would lead to the tragedies of the Yugoslav wars. [5] Following 1989, Ponzio documented "the transition from communism to the consumer free-for-all that followed the first flush of freedom." [6]

In 2003 he travelled to Georgia with a friend, the writer Rocco Carbone  [ Wikidata ]. Thus began a series of trips to the southern Caucasus and Armenia. [7]

In 2007 he was commissioned by MAXXI (Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo) in Rome to document the Italian landscape. [8] This project gave rise to a series of travels in Western Europe in 2008, [9] in search of the identity of another Europe.

In 2020, East of Nowhere, a synthesis of twenty-two years of work, was published by Thames & Hudson in the UK and the United States. [10] It was shortlisted for the Aperture's 2020 photobook awards. [11] In 2021, a French-language edition was published by Actes Sud.

Publications

Awards

Notes

  1. ↑ Page about East of Nowhere, Thames & Hudson.
  2. ↑ Page about A l'est de nulle part, Actes Sud.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Winner 1998: Fabio Ponzio – LOBA". Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Retrieved April 3, 2020. He first became interested in photography during a trip to the Balkans in 1976.
  2. ↑ Ponzio, Fabio (April 2, 2020). East of Nowhere. Thames & Hudson. p. 155. ISBN   978-0500545201.
  3. ↑ Adams, Tim. "The big picture: On the road in post-Ceaușescu Romania". The Guardian. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Thames & Hudson Author Interview: Fabio Ponzio's photographic odyssey in search of Eastern Europe". Thames & Hudson. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ "East of Nowhere". PORT Magazine Art & Photography. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ Ponzio, Fabio (April 2, 2020). East of Nowhere. Thames & Hudson. p. 14. ISBN   978-0500545201.
  7. ↑ Official website Biography
  8. ↑ Ed. Fabiani, Francesca (May 13, 2008). Italian Atlas 007 – Landscape at risk – The portrait of a changing Italy. Electa – Maxxi-Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo. p. 44. ISBN   978-8837062545.
  9. ↑ Mormorio, Diego (January 1, 2017). Storia essenziale della fotografia. Postcart. p. 445. ISBN   978-8898391790.
  10. 1 2 Vince Aletti, "Questa non è una fotografia di moda. Fabio Ponzio", Vogue Italia, N° 838, 29 June 2020. (Text in both Italian and English.) Accessed 18 December 2020.
  11. ↑ "Announcing the 2020 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist", Aperture Foundation, 9 October 2020. Accessed 16 October 2020.
  12. ↑ Arles Rencontres de la Photographie: L'Album des Rencontres
  13. ↑ "The Mother Jones Photo Fund Winners", Mother Jones, January–February 1994, p. 15. (Here at Google Books.)
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