Edition 2009
Giorgia FIORIO
Born in 1967 in Turin, Italy.
Lives and works in France and in Italy.
Lives and works in France and in Italy.
Freelance photographer Giorgia Fiorio is a graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York. At the outset of her career, she took the bold and unusual decision to devote herself to long-term projects, working on the same subject for several years at a time. Starting in 1990, Giorgia Fiorio carried out a vast 10-year project entitled Men. Totally immersing herself in an environment for several months, she explored the closed male communities of Western society in the late 20th century – photographing the boxers of New York, the miners of the Donets Basin in Ukraine, Foreign Legionnaires, Spanish bullfighters, American firefighters, and men of the sea. These assignments yielded several monographs, and are now gathered in an anthology titled Des Hommes, published by Editions Marval. As soon as this project was completed in January 2000, she embarked on a new enterprise named The Gift, which she describes as a visual testimony and a personal quest on the relation of the individual to the sacred, and around humanity's spiritual heritage. This eight-year search took her all over the world to photograph subjects as varied as Easter Island cults, Easter purifications in the Philippines, Sufi whirling dervishes in Turkey, and age-old Incaic rituals on the high Andean plateaux. Italian photographer Giorgia Fiorio, a finalist for the prestigious Eugene Smith Award with her project The Gift, has since 2000 undertaken an exhaustive, worldwide survey for contemporary manifestations of spiritual beliefs.
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