photo_talks: What Moves You?
Salvatore Vitale
Salvatore Vitale is a Swiss-based visual artist, editor, and educator, originally from Palermo. He’ll present the project from his latest book, How to Secure a Country, meant to reflect and visualize the production of Swiss security (and therefore also insecurity) in photographs, texts, and data visualizations. The 2014 Swiss vote against immigration inspired him — as a long-time foreign resident — to investigate how such a hostile attitude originated.
Gianni Cipriano leads the conversation and Q&A after the presentation.
Salvatore Vitale is a Swiss-based visual artist, editor, and educator with a Master’s in Fine Arts from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). In his multi-layered artistic practice and research, Vitale’s work focuses on the development and complexity of modern societies exploring power structures, visual politics and technology, whilst making use of expanded documentary analysis, including elements of fiction, speculative storytelling, and the use of multiple visual forms. His work incorporates photography, video, sound, writing, and oral discourse, communicated through books, talks, editorial contexts, teaching, and exhibition design. Vitale’s work has been exhibited widely in museums and at photo festivals, and he is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) where he leads the Transmedia Storytelling program. He is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of YET magazine, a Swiss-based international photography magazine that focuses on the evolution of the photography practice within the contemporary art field.
salvatore-vitale.com
Gianni Cipriano is a Sicilian-born independent photographer based in Napoli, Italy. His work focuses on contemporary social, political, and economic issues. Gianni regularly works for The New York Times and has been documenting the ongoing upheaval in Italian politics for L’Espresso weekly magazine since 2013. His editorial work has also appeared in Time, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, among others.
He graduated from the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York in 2008. He has received recognition and awards from POYI (Picture of the Year International), American Photography, New York Photo Awards, International Photography Awards, and the Ian Parry Scholarship.
Gianni’s work has been showcased in group exhibitions in venues such as the Rencontres d’Arles, FOLI Lima Biennale of Photography, MOPLA, Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism and at the MAXXI museum in Rome.
Gianni teaches
lighting for environmental portraits
for StrudelmediaLive.
