Gianni Pezzani

He graduated in 1979 in Agricultural Sciences, studies that allow him to have a good knowledge of chemistry, which is essential to address research on photographic toning who, in the late '70s, he gets involved. This path led him to be one of the first photographers in Italy to deepen the study on color freeing themselves from the dominance of black and white. Since the '70s begins to investigate photographically Parma and its places.

In 1981 he began working for Vogue and Condé Nast editions. The study in the field of professional photography on the way, continues a search that led him in 1982 to create a series of photographs during a trip to the US in the company of Franco Fontana, who see the protagonist of an exhibition at the Galleria Civica di Modena in 1984.

In 1981 he was selected by Editions Time-Life among the six most important emerging photographers of the year and its portfolio is published in the yearbook Photography Year. In 1983 he was invited to exhibit in Japan at the Kodak Gallery in Ginza (Nagase Photo Salon). Starting from the same year he moved to Tokyo for ten years, where he worked both as a photographer and as a textile designer.

In 1984 he took part in a traveling exhibition on Italian photography that touch the most important galleries of mainland China. 1984 is a pivotal year especially for the decision to move to Japan, where he worked for Mamya Room and draws apparel offering, to the Japanese market, own label which was the invention of ironic characters their own trademark.

Between 1984 and 1993 will move between Tokyio, Bali and New Zealand by continuing to use the camera in research that, while important to draw a complete history of photography of the eighties, will remain hidden from critics. In 1993 he returned to Italy and moved to Milan. Relations with fashion magazines and design are intensified as well as the solo and group shows that the protagonist.

In May 2009 presents the work Storia di una foresta perduta introduced by Jacques Le Goff.