Bio Giuseppe Potente was born in Italy in 1950. He followed classical studies inome, where he graduated in 1974 in MD.Specializing in medical imaging, he has been interested since the 70s, simultaneously with technical imaging, to artistic imaging.He has a great passion for open air sports, in particular water sports, such as rowing, kayaking, sailing, swimming. In Italy, he lives in Rome and in the Tuscan countryside. Since 2010 he has left the University of Rome and works as a free lance photographer based in Italy and South Africa on personal projects. His activity has been aimed until 2021 at books and online publications. In 2022 he began producing works of various sizes, up to 180 x 120 . Name & Contact details Giuseppe Potente (b. 1950, Italy ) [email protected] +393396751330 IG: @potentegiuseppe IG : @ potentephotography Websites Personal: https://www.potentegiuseppe.com LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/giuseppe-potente-2 Camerapixo Magazine: https://camerapixopress.com/ Saatchi Art: https://www.saatchiart.com/potentephoto Education history Professor of imaging in Sapienza University of Rome from 1988. Professor of Medical Imaging in Sapienza University of Rome from 1988 to 2010. Free-lance photographer from 2011. Associated to Camerapixo Magazine from 2019. My artistic education has been mostly self-taught, but partly founded also upon the learning with other photographers and curators: - Photo review in person with many reviewers, Arles (2014); - Workshop with the portraitist and street photographer Eolo Perfido of Leica School (Florence, 2014). - Workshop on Portrait with the photographer Giovanni Gastel (Milan, 2019); - Photo review online with PH Publisher (2019); - Photo review online with Magnum Photographer Richard Kalvar (2020);- - Written photo reviews by LensCulture (2021), of two open projects: 1-”In the Fields”, and 2- “Terroirs”: 1- In the Fields ( Review by LensCulture) This project touches upon a lot of interesting ideas and questions that feel relevant to thinking about race and quality throughout the world. And the images have a positive and perhaps celebratory feel to them. It's a compelling and thought-provoking project. In general, I feel you have a strong sense of composition. Each of the photographs feels exciting and the frames are often complex and visually pleasing. I personally feel this project is intriguing. Terroirs ( Review by Lensculture ) “ I feel you have a lot of remarkable portraits in this selection of images. There is a certain way you have of connecting to your subjects in the images that creates a very rich and intense moment. No less, your dramatic use of light and the rich tonal range of many of the images creates a very alluring and seductive visual space. There is a beautiful tonal range in your images. And I like how the photographs feel so alive and moody. I find the compositions, the poses, and the content of these photographs are very strong. They are very striking photographs. “ Exhibitions • Ulysses’gaze: presentation of photobook with printed images in Leros Island, Greece, 2014. • Lensculture, New York, 2022 New Discoveries In Contemporary Photography: Caelum Gallery 508 - 526 West 26th Street, Third Floor New York, New York https://www.dropbox.com/s/62g56wx37omb7sg/NY22_IG%2031.png?dl=0 @caelumgallery on May 20-21-22, 2022 Current gallery representation : Purificato.Zero, Rome, Italy. Collections Private collection, Rome, Italy Private collection, Franschhoek, Western Cape, South Africa Artist Statement 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 instinctively chosen, not for a conceptual elaboration, other forms of life, which I have revisited with poetic intent, as in the Ice & Ikebana project, or with an anthropomorphic vision, in other projects.