Gianni Pezzani

In 2008 he started "Milano Notte", new work in which the Lombard city is photographed in its nocturnal solitude. He will conduct the same work in the city of Tokyo between January 2010 and December 2011. One of his most recent projects, begun in 2010 and still in progress, is "Mouche à lire": carefully selected pages of books on which to place a fly, immortalizing the dipteran on the written page, evidence of a long devotion and passion for reading.

In 1993, after returning to Italy, he moved to Milan, but maintained a refuge in an old house in Torrechiara, in the Province of Parma, at the foot of a castle.

In 1984 moved to Japan, where he worked for Mamiya and begins to design clothing.

Between 1984 and 1993 he traveled from Tokyo to Bali and then to New Zealand.

Thanks to the research on photographic toning in 1981 he was chosen by Time Life as one of the six most important up-and-coming photographers of the year; his portfolio was published in the yearbook Photography Year.

He has been working for Condé Nast since 1981. He combines fashion photography with research that in 1981 lead him to realize a series of photographs during a trip to the United States in the company of Franco Fontana. These works are shown at the Galleria Civica in Modena in 1984. The same year he too part in a travelling exhibition on Italian photography atone of the more important galleries in China.

His knowledge of chemistry, learnt during his university studies, allowed him to undertake research on photographic toning in the late 1970s. This allowed him to be amongst the first photographers in Italy to become involved in the study of colour, freeing himself from the predominance of black-and-white photography.

Gianni Pezzani (real name Giovanni Pezzani, born on 18 June 1951 in Colorno), is an Italian photographer.

Gianni Pezzani was born in Colorno, a small town in the Province of Parma on 18 June 1951. He attended the University of Florence where in 1979 he graduated in Agricultural sciences.