About Me
Bio, Awards, Press
Name & Contact details
Giuseppe Potente (b. 1950)
giuseppe.potente.studio@gmail.com
IG: @potentegiuseppe
IG : @ potentephotography
Websites
https://www.potentegiuseppe.com
https://www.saatchiart.com/potentephoto
Professor of Imaging in Sapienza University of Rome from 1988 to 2010.
Associated to Camerapixo Magazine from 2019.
Representation: Purificato.Zero Gallery, Rome, Italy.
Exhibitions
Ulysses’gaze: presentation of photobook with printed images in Leros Island, Greece, 2014.
Lensculture, New York, 2022-New Discoveries In Contemporary Photography, CaelumGallery.
Purificato.Zero Gallery, Rome, 2022, 01-30 December.
Purificato.Zero Gallery, Rome, 2023, 01-30 November.
Recent Awards and Press
1- The Unexpected Funeral - Series
Honorable Mention Award At Tokyo International Foto (Tifa) 2019
2- Terroirs -- Series
Juror’s Pick – Lensculture Black&White Competition 2021
Https://Www.Lensculture.Com/2021-Black-And-White-Photography-Award-Winners
3 - “WWW: Who Watches Whom” – Photobook
Winner, International Photo Awards (IPA/ Lucie Foundation), 2021.
3- Terroirs -- Series
Monochrome Awards 2021
4- Lensculture B&W Guide 2022, page 19
5. The Last Ritual - Series
Honorable Mention Award At Tokyo International Foto (Tifa) 2022
6. Ice & Ikebanas- Series
Finalist, IPA , 2022- Finalist TIFA, 2022
Press 2022
2022- The Guardian
My cultural passions since childhood have been writing, listening to music and cinema; drawing and painting were occasional interests, which I have not cultivated. The circumstances of life, associated with my reflective personality, with discrete reactivity, led me to choose photography as the means of choice to express my observations and my imagination. Photography, in adulthood, was the medium that fascinated me most, and never even sometimes paved the way to bring other human beings closer.
The themes that most stimulated me were those of the Comedie Humaine, and the search for poetry in the images of common life. The photographs that I see closest to my “humanistic” photographic activity are Joel Meyerowitz and Harry Gruyaert.
In recent months, reflection on the events and paradoxes of humanity have taken precedence over the exploration of human activities. The great themes to which I want to dedicate my creative imagination are both the crucial ones of global warming, and those that have always been common to all of humanity, such as love, oppression, power, aging, the elegant strength of youth. To talk about these themes in images, I have recently chosen other forms of life, revisited with poetic vision, as in the Ice & Ikebana project.