
Massimo
Massimo Siragusa

biography

Italian photographer, born in 1958 in Catania (Italy), member of Agence VU’ since 2018, based in Rome (Italy) where he also teaches photography (European Institute of Design)
After studying political science, Massimo Siragusa develops his photographic writing in a self-taught practice, until his meeting with Ferdinando Scianna in 1987 makes him decide to settle as professional photographer.
Massimo Siragusa then undertakes to photograph the Italian territory in its broadest sense: in what he reveals of the people who walks over it, lives it, modifies it, gives it to see or on the contrary hides it. Natural or urban landscape, exterior or interior, heritage, contemporary or ordinary architecture, places of life, leisure or passage: he documents public spaces such as private or intimate ones with the same frontal process.
Like a theatre set, planes accumulate, traces are juxtaposed, lines are drawn, colours are dyed in some unreal light. Behind fixed frame and apparent immobility, Massimo Siragusa’s photographs point out differences and value similarities, sometimes up to vertigo and loss of reference points.
In parallel to these personal projects, Massimo Siragusa carries out commissioned works for Italian and international companies in the industrial, energy, hotel and luxury sectors.
Winner of prestigious awards including four world press, his work is regularly published in the international press (New York Times Magazine, Die Zeit, Geo Germany and Japan, Le Figaro Magazine), and exhibited throughout the world.
Series


Il Cretto Grande, 2018

The Emotion of Vertigo, 2018

Kindergartens, 2014

Ambrosi Factory, 2014

Lo Spazio Condiviso : The Shared Space , 2013

Cities, 2013

Churches, 2013

Teatro d'Italia : Theater of Italy , 2011

The Green Hour, 2010

Housing, 2010

Cinecittà, 2009

Secret Documents, 2008

Leisure Time, 2007

SQR / Outskirts of Rome, 2019

Il Cretto Grande, 2018

The Emotion of Vertigo, 2018

Kindergartens, 2014

Ambrosi Factory, 2014

Lo Spazio Condiviso : The Shared Space , 2013

Cities, 2013

Churches, 2013

Teatro d'Italia : Theater of Italy , 2011

The Green Hour, 2010

Housing, 2010

Cinecittà, 2009

Secret Documents, 2008

Leisure Time, 2007

SQR / Outskirts of Rome, 2019

Il Cretto Grande, 2018

The Emotion of Vertigo, 2018

Kindergartens, 2014

Ambrosi Factory, 2014

Lo Spazio Condiviso : The Shared Space , 2013

Cities, 2013

Churches, 2013

Teatro d'Italia : Theater of Italy , 2011

The Green Hour, 2010

Housing, 2010

Cinecittà, 2009

Secret Documents, 2008

Leisure Time, 2007
videos
Teatro d’Italia, 2017
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By looking at these images, one by one, we can see that they are – almost all – adapted to theatrical actions. I do not imagine them populated by daily life, but repopulated by different performances.
Montage: Valeria Scrilatti
Altagamma Backstage, 2012
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Altagamma is the Italian luxury brand committee composed of companies in the fields of design, fashion, food, jewellery, automobiles, and hospitality. It fulfills a similar function to the French Comité Colbert. Its name literally means “high end”
Montage : Valeria Scrilatti
Interviews
Paolo Di Stefano e Massimo Siragusa – Respirano i muri
TV 2000
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2018
Massimo Siragusa is interviewed by the Italian channel TV2000 about his book Respirano i muri alongside Paolo Di Stefano, who wrote the book.
Interview de Massimo Siragusa
Fondazione Studio Marangoni
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2014
As part of its project, Il teatro d’italia, the Fondazione Studio Maragoni interviewed photographer Massimo Siragusa.
Massimo Siragusa à la galerie Polka
Galerie Polka
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Interview by Antoine Soubrier et Marianne Giniel, 2011
Interview réalisée dans le cadre de l’exposition collective Itinérances à la galerie Polka.
exhibitions
Cargo, les photographiques de Saint-Nazaire
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Galerie des Franciscains, Saint-Nazaire (FRANCE)
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From the 1st of July to the 16th of October, 2022
Altri Paisaghji – Autres Paysages
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Musée de Bastia, Bastia (FRANCE)
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From the 21st of February to the 29th of March, 2019
books

Il Cretto Grande

Respirano i muri

Teatro d’Italia

Bologna, lo spettacolo di una cittá

Credi

Il cerchio magico

Il Vaticano. Un itinerario tra storia, arte e vita

Il Cretto Grande

Respirano i muri

Teatro d’Italia

Bologna, lo spettacolo di una cittá

Credi

Il cerchio magico

Il Vaticano. Un itinerario tra storia, arte e vita

Il Cretto Grande

Respirano i muri

Teatro d’Italia

Bologna, lo spettacolo di una cittá

Credi

Il cerchio magico

Il Vaticano. Un itinerario tra storia, arte e vita
awards

Friuli Venezia Giulia Photography Award
For his project : Lo spazio condiviso
2015

2nd prize Sony World Photography
Architecture categorie
2014

1st prize Interiros at MIFA Moscow International Foto Award
2014

World Press Photo, 3rd prize, Contemporary Issue
For the series “Living Slums”
2009

World Press Photo, 2nd prize, Art Stories
For the series “Tempo Libero”
2008

Amilcare Ponchielli Award
For the series “Tempo Libero”
2006

World Press Photo, Art Stories
For the series “Il Cerchio Magico”
1999

Fuji Film Euro Press Photo Award
For the series “Il Cerchio Magico”
1999

World Press Photo, 2nd prize, Daily Life
For the series “Bisogno Di Un Miracolo”
1997