The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, as part of the Webinar series entitled “L’Italia delle voci” and dedicated to the most outstanding figures in the various areas of Italian culture, is pleased to present the rich and varied experience of the photographer Giovanni Capriotti, winner of the World Press Photo (Sport Stories) in 2017. The presentation and discussion, offered with a Webinar, participating in the same photographer Giovanni Capriotti, Francesco D’Arelli, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, and the attendees.
Thursday, July 16 2020, 3:00 pm EST (9:00pm, Rome)
For years an internationally renowned photographer, Giovanni Capriotti has been researching and telling real-life stories, where the image is the most sonorous and speaking note of the narrative. His stories are the essence of long and exhausting explorations in the most remote places in Asia, the Americas, Canada, Italy …, always looking for situations in which individuals, communities, human experiences and conditions wander in the silence of shadow. Its mission is to bring light where the gaze of contemporary society tends stubbornly to escape, because the discomfort, suffering, exclusion, social seclusion, inequality, exploitation … are the soul of darkness, are the unhealthy food of human life, that of opulence and the superfluous.
Giovanni Capriotti is an independent documentary photographer and videographer pursuing long-form visual narratives with a focus on unique and intimate stories exposing how time and inevitability of compromise affect individuals, communities, history and the human condition. In addition to his documentary practices, Giovanni deals with brand visual journalism as a Multimedia Image/Video Producer at the University of Guelph-Humber and continues to accept commissions. He is on the Advisory Board of the Loyalist College Photojournalism Program and runs photography workshops, lectures and talks. Among several accolades that his work has earned him, Capriotti’s long-term project “Boys Will Be Boys” gained 1st Place Sport Stories at the 2017 World Press Photo, while recently ISMEO (Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente), awarded him a grant to follow the footprints of its former president and early Tibet explorer Giuseppe Tucci. Capriotti’s projects have been shown in exhibitions and installations at venues around the world, including the World Press Photo Foundation, Contact Photography Festival Toronto, NPAC, Italian Institute of Culture-Montreal, DDProject Trieste, Tokyo International Foto Awards, IGR Bingham Cup Amsterdam 2018, PX3 – Prix De La Photographie Paris. WoPZines, an indie publishing house, is his latest ambitious endeavor.