BIOGRAPHY Gianni Volpi was born in Modena in 1946, May 31st. Before being a photographer he had been teacher of English Literature in Italian High Schools, also taking care of students during summer courses in England . As a professional photographer since 1976 he has always directed his activity to those fields where the human figure is always point of reference: FASHION, THEATRE, TOURISM, PORTRAIT, NUDE, REPORTAGE, "wherever a gesture is expression and communication." "When I left teaching I took pleasure in shooting people and places, or better "people in places". So that their private stories were supposed to become also mine. It is in fact proper of the camera the pleasure of "telling stories": on the printing paper what we have seen or pretended to see ; sometimes, if you are lucky, also what you have felt and lived. And reality is just a docile pretext, a stage for our trips, either physical or mental. Other people ,maybe, will follow the tracks we left on the sensible film, maybe to get to a different destination, doesn't matter. We have walked together for a while."

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