Biography

Claudio Rasano

Is a photographer who in lives Basel and received the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize 2016. And PHOTOVOGUE in PORTRAITS His work explores the relationship between spaces and humans, the subject within the space and the space as the subject itself.

Rasano is, no doubt, an accomplished photographer with a genuine and identifiable style that crosses documentary and fine art practices. I would describe Rasano as a collector, or, a hoarder of images with the determined vision of the experienced collector. Rasano collects and catalogues people from similar backgrounds, circumstances and experiences - environmental portraits and landscapes depicting a quiet anthropological commentary. FromSame place to Skin of Africa the gaze and distance speak volumes. His photography is mature, thoughtful and professional. The portraits themselves are taken in a consistent manner. In each portrait it is clear that the photographer is pre-visualizing the composition. and there is a strong relationship between the environmental portraits and landscape images. I sense the photographer is seeing both with the same eyes.

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2017 ART BASEL Rademakers Gallery Scope Basel
2017 PHOTOVOGUE/PORTRAITS at Leica Galerie, Milano
2016 Taylor Wessing portrait prize . First prize
2016 shortlisted Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
2015 Escassez|Desperdício Syngenta Photography Awards
2015 Syngenta Photography Awards CCSP Centro Cultural São Paulo.
2015 Aff Galerie FOG Magazins
2015 Portrait Salon Embassy Tea Gallery London
2015 Galerie BOHAI FOG: Excerpts
2015 Exposure Awards Lensculture
2015 Syngenta Photography Award Scarcity-Waste Somerset House, London
2014 Solo Exhibition oslo8 contemporary photography / 2014 Cheltenham Art Gallery
2014 Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
2013 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. National Portrait Gallery London
2013 Going Places. Reise ins anderswo. iaab Basement, Basel
2012 Hasselblad Masters Finalist.
2011 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. National Portrait Gallery London
2011 Fotolabor Pascale Brügger, KunstfreilagerDreispitz Basel
2011 Hasselblad Masters Finalist
2011 Photobook Days, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2010 Gallery 1839 Soho, London
2010 Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington 2009 Portfoliowalk Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2009 Obscura Gallery St Kilda, Melbourne
2008 Photoforum Pasquart, Biel
2008 frontstore, Basel
2008 PHotoEspaña, Madrid

Exhibitions
2015 2015 Exposure Awards
2015 Syngenta Photography Award
2015 exhibition selection Somerset House, London
2014 Solo Exhibition oslo8 contemporary photography 2014 Cheltenham Art