AndreaAttardi
Andrea Attardi (Rome, 1957), writer and photographer, taught Photography Technique at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo from 1984 to 1995 and currently holds the Chairs of Photography, History of Photography Criticism and Photography for Cultural Heritage at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He teaches History of 20th-Century Photography at the Associazione Culturale Officine Fotografiche in Rome.
After producing numerous photo reports in Arab, African and Asian countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, North Yemen, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Côte d’Ivoire, India, Nepal), he turned his attention to the social realities of Latin America, in particular Cuba, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.
In 2003, he published the essay “Buenos Aires ora zero” (Ed. Desiderio & Aspel), which focuses on the life and recent history of the Argentinian capital.
In addition to his work as a photographer, he also acts as a curator and critic for exhibitions and photography books: he wrote the texts for Francesca Romana Guarnaschelli’s exhibition ‘Promessa Terra’, held as part of the 2013 Rome International Photography Festival, and for Enrico Nicolò’s books ‘Oltre il visibile’ (2013) and ‘Sgridò il mare e i venti’ (2014).
He has exhibited his photographs in private galleries and public institutions, including Rome (from ‘Il Fotogramma’ in 1982 to ‘Fotoleggendo’ in 2009), Perugia, Florence, Turin, Trieste, Bari (Provincial Art Gallery, 1986), Palermo (Ellearte Gallery, 2009), Ferrara (Palazzo dei Diamanti, 1984), Marsala (Carmine Convent, 2009), London, Paris (Centre Georges Pompidou, 1983), Recife (Italian Cultural Institute, 1997), New York (JFK Airport, 1999), and Buenos Aires (University of Bologna and Floreal Gorini Cultural Centre, 2005–2006).
Andrea Attardi is the author of the following books: ‘Sul palcoscenico di Minerva’ (1982), ‘Paris/Soupault’ (1983), ‘Giornale di bordo’ (1984), ‘Per la libertà’ (1987), ‘Indie’ (1986), ‘Atlante di Sicilia’ (1994), ‘Paesaggi siciliani’ (2001), ‘Vetri, porti: una corsa per Palermo e dintorni’ (2009) and ‘Breviario siciliano’ (2012).
The images from his latest book, “Breviario siciliano” (Ed. Postcart, 2012) have been exhibited at Spazio Ducrot (Rome, 2013), at the Brodway bookshop in Palermo (2013) and at the Pier Paolo Pasolini Cultural Centre in Agrigento (2014).
The following have written about his photographic work: Piero Berengo Gardin, Giuseppe Cannilla, Aldo Gerbino, Diego Mormorio, Silvia Pegoraro, Angelo Pitrone, Giovanni Semerano, Enzo Siciliano, Philippe Soupault, Ennery Taramelli, Sergio Troisi and Giuseppe Turroni.