Gianni Cipriano on Clubhouse

Bio

I’m a photographer and visual storyteller based between Italy and Switzerland.

My work focuses on how politics affects lives—that is, the social, economic and cultural impact of political decisions. I have been closely documenting the political upheavals of my native Italy for the past decade, including the twilight of the Berlusconi era and the 2018 national elections that brought populist parties to power.

My documentary work and portraits have appeared regularly in The New York Times, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Monocle, Le Monde’s M, Wired, L’Espresso, IL, Vanity Fair, Esquire, El Pais, Stern and Der Spiegel, among others.

I was born in Palermo in 1983 into a family of Italian emigrants and I grew up between Brooklyn, Geneva and Palermo. After studying aerospace engineering and architecture, I was drawn to photography, and graduated from the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York.

My work has been recognized with awards from POYI (Picture of the Year International), American Photography, New York Photo Awards, International Photography Awards and the Ian Parry Scholarship, an international photography scholarship for young photographers. It has also appeared in group exhibitions at Rome’s MAXXI museum, the Rencontres d’Arles photo festival, FOLI Lima Biennale of Photography, MOPLA and the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism, among others.