Gianni Berengo Gardin - Photojournalist - Street Photographer

Gianni Berengo Gardin is an Italian photographer. Born in Santa Margherita Ligure on 10 October 1930, Berengo Gardin lived in Switzerland, Rome, Paris and Venice before starting as an amateur photographer in 1954. As a photographer, he was self-taught, learning photography from two years he spent in Paris working with other photographers. He began his career as a photojournalist in 1965. His characteristic way of photographing, his keen eye to the world and to the different realities, from architecture to landscape, daily life, have the international success. Berengo Gardin has exhibited his photos in hundreds of exhibitions have celebrated his work and his creativity in different parts of the world: Museum of Modern Art in New York and the George Eastman House in Rochester among several. With his series dedicated to the daily lives of Roma families in Florence, the Italian photographer was able to convince the jury and win the 1995 Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Berengo’s approach to photography relies heavily on the fact that he uses mainly black and white film, no digital cameras or computerized post-production.


Photos: Gianni Berengo Gardin


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