Alberto Givanni

Graduated at Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Alberto Givanni has completed his studies in graphics and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam

Professional photographer with fifteen years of activity, he has contributed to Italian and international publications. In 2002, during his collaboration with Nigrizia, Mundo Negro
and the South African magazine World Wide
he curated a wide and in-depth photo-reportage
on the rural districts of South Africa. Reportage published in the same year in the book
Africa oltre lo specchio (Minerva Edizioni) curated
by Elisabetta Pozzetti with text by Alex Zanotelli
and Franco Patruno.

In the following year, he underwent a journey through Mozambique and its social topics,
resulting in the volume Boa Viagem. Reportage
dal Mozambico, edited by Italo Zannier
and Elisabetta Pozzetti (Minerva Edizioni, 2004). Another reportage was published in 2005: Kenya. Kibera. Bambini di strada (Casa Editrice XXVII), edited by Elisabetta Pozzetti and Italo Zannier, with text by Walter Veltroni and Jean Léonard Touadi.Other recently published photo reportage topics: Nuba Mountains, Sudan and Cairo, Egypt.

His social themed reportages has been published in two books by Fabrizio Floris: Puppets or people?
A Sociological Analysis of Korogocho Slum;
Eccessi di città. Baraccopoli, campi profughi
e periferie psichedeliche, published by Paulines Publications Africa, Nairobi (Kenya).

Besides his reportage activity, he curates photographic work in progress in artists studios, published on specialized magazines and monographs. Among these: Federico Guida. Fratture multiple; Michelangelo Galliani. Marmi gemelli; Dany Vescovi. Hybris (all published by Publi Paolini Editore, 2004); Luca Giovagnoli. Zimmer frei; Guida, Nido, Vescovi. Tre artisti a Milano; La luce della pittura. Trento Longaretti (Publi Paolini Editore, 2005); In Fieri. Opere di Fabbriano (Casa Editrice XXVII, 2005); In cammino per i 90 anni di Trento Longaretti (Publi Paolini Editore, 2006); Italo Bolano. Espressionismo blu (Arti Grafiche E. Duc, 2007); Trasmutazioni liriche. Opere di Fabbriano (Casa Editrice XXVII, 2008).

In 2007, his photographic reportage
of Italian Cluniac Abbeys, tied to the Polirone Abbey in San Benedetto Po, Mantua, was at the heart
of an exhibition held in the thousand-year old abbey.

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