Marco Lanza

Marco Lanza, born in Florence in 1957, starts dealing with photography when he was very young, Self-taught photographer, he studies Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo at the University of Bologna.
In that period, he starts travelling worldwide for his first assignments; he moves for a year to Australia with his family; he works with international agencies and magazines.
At the same time, his artistic work finds room in exhibitions in Italy and abroad. The Sunday Times, Colors, Die Zeit, Harper's, Creative Review publish some of his works.
In 2000, Westzone Publishing prints the book The Living Dead, a photographic work on the Capuchin Crypt of Palermo (The Living Dead – Inside the Palermo Crypt).
In 2005, he founds together with his brother, Saverio, a musician, the video project Pastis.

EXHIBITIONS
MIA – Milano Image ArtFair – Milano (2014)
Fotografia Festival Internazionale – Macro – Roma (2013)
Biennale Internazionale Borgo di Montone – Perugia (2013)
Memoriaoblio – Palazzo Saraceni – Bologna (2013)
Fotoconcerto – C2Contemporanea2 – Firenze (2013)
Babele: non pervenuta – Tethys gallery – Firenze (2011)
C'est la vie! Vanités de Pompéi à Damien Hirst – Musèe Maillol – Parigi (2010)
Don't stop me now – Trolley Gallery – Londra (2008)
Pastis – Hlam Design – Milano (2007)
Ich habe einen Traum – Galerie im Einstein – Berlino (2007)
Archeologia e restauro in Toscana – Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze (2006)
La Sfilata – Galleria Zucchi – Milano (2005)
Bravehearts: Men in skirts – Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York (2003)
The Living Dead – Milano Collezioni Uomo – Milano (2002)
Identità Culturali -Villa Vogel – Firenze (2002)
The Living Dead – Westzone Gallery – Londra (2001)
50° Anniversario Vespa – Comune di Pontedera – Pisa (1996)
Agnese – Floralia – Firenze (1994)