Biography
Giacomo Brunelli (b. Perugia, Italy, 1977) graduated with a degree in International Communications in 2002.
His series have been exhibited at The Photographers’Gallery, London (UK), Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris (France), Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg (Germany), Saatchi Gallery (London), Delhi PhotoFestival (India), Format Festival, Derby (UK), Noorderlicht Photofestival (The Netherlands), Athens Photo Festival (Greece), Daegu PhotoBiennal (South Korea), Angkor PhotoFestival (Cambodia), BlueSky Gallery, Portland (USA), The New Art Gallery Walsall (UK), Griffin Museum ,Boston (USA), StreetLevel Glasgow (UK), Photofusion, London (UK), Arden & Anstruther Petworth (UK), Galleria Belvedere Milan (Italy), Fotofestiwal Lodz (Poland) and Boutographies, Montepellier (France).
The work has won the Sony World Photography Award, the Gran Prix Lodz, Poland, and the Magenta Foundation “Flash Forward 2009”. It has also been featured widely in the art and photography press including The Guardian (UK), Harper’s Magazine (USA), Eyemazing (Holland), European Photography (Germany), B&W Magazine (USA), Creative Review (UK), Foto&Video (Russia), Images Magazine (France) Photographie (Germany), Katalog (Denmark), AdBusters (Canada), FOTO (Sweden) and FOTOGRAFI (Norway).
His work is in the collection of Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Uk Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts and Portland Art Museum, USA.
“The Animals”, his first monograph, was published by Dewi Lewis Publishing in 2008.
In 2012, he was commissioned by The Photographers’Gallery to do a project on London.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 "Hamburg", Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg
2014 "Eternal London", The Photographers' Gallery, London
2013 “The Animals” Delhi PhotoFestival, India
2012 “The Animals” Athens Photo Festival, Greece
2011 “The Animals” Transphotographiques, Lille, France
2010 “The Animals” The Photographers’Gallery, London,
“The Animals” Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia
“The Animals” Estivales Photographiques du Trégor, Lannion, France
“The Animals” Photofusion, London, Uk
2009 “The Animals” BlueSky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Usa
“The Animals” StreetLevel, Glasgow, Scotland, Uk
“The Animals” Boutographies Fotofestival, Montpellier, France
“The Animals” Wrexham Arts Center, Wrexham, Wales, Uk
2008“The Animals” The New Art Gallery Walsall, Uk
“The Animals” Galleria Belvedere, Milan, Italy
“The Animals” SiFest, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
“The Animals” Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland
2007“The Animals” Arden&Anstruther, Petworth, Uk
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 "Eternal London", Strange&Familiar, Barbican Centre, London
2011 “Les Fables” Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
“Metropolis” Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands
“Right Here, Right Now” Format Festival, Derby, Uk
2010 “Schwarzweiss”, Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
The Photographers’Gallery, London, Uk
“Hidden Sense”, Daegu PhotoBiennale, South Korea
“Make Room”, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Uk
“Dog Days”, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, Usa
“Thrown at the Wall”, PhotoIreland, Dublin Ireland
“Everyday Extraordinary”, Coutts & Co, 440 Strand, London, Uk
Magenta “Flash Forward 2009”, Griffin Museum Photography, Boston, Usa
PhotoVoice 2009 Auction, Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf, London, Uk
2009 Magenta “Flash Forward 2009”, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Kaunas Photofestival, Latvia
Gallery.Photographer.ru. Moscow, Russia (Sony Awards)
The Affluenza Exhibition, London, Uk
2008 Scope Basel, Switzerland
The PowerHouse Arena, New York, USA (Sony Awards)
Bozar Centre of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (Sony Awards)
Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany (Sony Awards)
Bridge Art Fair, Miami, Usa
2007 Eclectica, Crane Kalman, Brighton, Uk
Les Rencontres Leica, Paris, France
2006 Small Works, Art101, Brooklyn, Usa
AWARDS
2009 Magenta “Flash Forward 2009”, Toronto, Canada, Winner Uk
B&W Magazine Spotlight Award, Usa, Winner
2008 Sony World Photography Awards, Nature Winner
Gran Prix of Fotofestiwal of Lodz, Poland, Winner
B&W Spider Awards, Usa, Nomination
MONOGRAPH
2008 “The Animals” Introduction by Alison Nordstrom, Dewi Lewis Publishing, Uk
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 “MONO”, B/W photography, Gomma Books Ltd, Uk (upcoming)
2012 “Technopolis”, Athens Photo Festival 2012
2012 “20 NOW: Contemporary Photographers” Cite Group, Style Publisher, Taiwan
2011 “Metropolis”, Noorderlicht Photofestival 2011
2011 “Right Here, Right Now”, Format Festival, Uk
2010 “Hidden Sense” South Korea
2010 “Kaunas PhotoFestival”, Lathuania
2009 “Magenta Flash Forward”, Canada
2008 “Lodz FotoFestival”, Poland
2008 “Savignano FotoFest”, Italy
2008 “FotoLeggendo”, Italy
COLLECTIONS
Museum Fine Arts, Houston, Usa
Portland Art Museum, Usa
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Uk
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
Cinematic and darkly captured: a wordless story told with mysterious images creates a moody suggestion of a flâneur within the contemporary urban fabric of the European continent.
Cinematic, moody yet fresh: a European-wide art project which aims to celebrate the idea of the flâneur within the contemporary urban fabric of the continent. One of our highlights from the Hamburg Triennal of Photography.
While the self portrait has fascinated artists since the very earliest periods, the use of the shadow in such works is almost exclusively owned by the photographic medium—this series takes full advantage of this fact, melding photographer and landscape into a seamless, integrated whole.
Italian photographer Giacomo Brunelli defines his work as animal-focused street photography. Critic Alison Nordström writes: “These pictures are timeless and uncanny, powerful in their ordinariness, and emotionally much bigger than their simple subjects.”
Brunelli uses his distinct film-noir style to create evocative close-cropped silhouettes of people and animals against the backdrop of London’s streets and landmarks.
Dewi Lewis Publishing, March 13, 2014
Dewi Lewis Publishing, April 01, 2009