Stefano De Luigi
Stefano De Luigi
Bio
In images of supercharged colours and muted hues, Stefano De Luigi(1964), has photographed the parallel worlds of stage sets – from the porno industry, television, men’s fashion and identity, to the world’s movie sets – far removed from Hollywood ‘s dream machine. This last series, Cinema Mundi, was also featured as a short film in the 60th edition of Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival (2007). In 2000, his work, Celebrities, was projected at Arles in France. Cologne-born De Luigi’s prizes include the W. Eugene Smith Fellowship Grant in 2007 and a World Press Photo award in 1999, 2008 and 2010. In 2010, he received the Days Japan International Photojournalism Award and the Getty Grant for Editorial Photography. His book, Blanco, was awarded the Best Photography Book by POYi (US) in 2011.
Publications
Blanco, Trolley Books, 2010
Pornoland, W W Norton & Co. Inc., et. al 2004
Honors
Gold Award Zoom-in on Poverty Contest 2011
World Press Photo Multimedia Contest 2011
POYi Best Photography Book Award 2011
Professional Best Global Health Multimedia 2011
Days Japan First Prize 2010
WPP Contemporary Issues (2° Single) 2010
Moving Walls (16) of Soros Foundation 2009
WPP Arts and Entertainment (2° single) 2008
Marco Bastianelli First Book Award 2005
Leica Oscar Barnack, honorable mention 2000
WPP Arts and Entertainments (3° stories) 1999
Masterclass of WPP 1997
Personal exhibition (selection)
MART, Museum of Modern Art of Rovereto and Trento, Italy 2011
Lodi Festival Fotografia Etica, Italy 2011
New York Photo Festival, US 2011
Blanco, VII Dumbo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 10b Photography Gallery, Rome, Italy ,Geneva, Switzerland 2010
Pornoland, REA Gallery, Paris (France), Festival Transphotographique, Lille, France 2010
Galleria Lanificio, Naples, Italy ; Galleria Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy 2007
Vanity Cerimonies, Savignano, Italy 2002
Collective exhibitions (selection)
Beijing In&Out, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy 2007
Paesaggio Prossimo, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy 2007
Eurogeneration, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, 2005; Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy 2004