Giorgio Negro
Giorgio Negro was born in Turin in 1959, to a Swiss mother and an Italian father. He spends his childhood and youth in the peaceful surroundings of the Italian province, in the small town of Susa. At the University he graduates in Electronics Engineering, but after 10 years as a software specialist, in 1995 he decides to start working for the International Committee of the Red Cross. He will then be involved for 23 years in humanitarian operations in many war zones around the world: Chechnya, Colombia, Peru, Chad, Sudan, Israel, Libya, Iraq and other countries.
Meanwhile, in 2005 he meets Ernesto Bazan and Dario De Dominicis, two Italian photographers thanks to whom he starts loving black and white photography and who become his friends and mentors. This marks the beginning of a magical journey into the world of humanistic photography. In the limited free time that his challenging work allows him, Giorgio takes photographs alone or with Bazan and De Dominicis, essentially in Latin America.
In 2017, he quits his humanitarian job to devote himself to his family, photography and leisure.
In 2019 he published his first photographic book "Pathos", for BazanPhotoEditing, followed in 2021 by "Meno di Due Secondi", with texts by him and by Giovanna Gammarota, for Editoriale Voglino. In 2022 the documentary movie "Um outro Francisco" ("Another Francis") premieres: a full-length film about the surprising veneration of the Italian Saint Francis of Assisi in northeastern Brazil.
A collaborative photographic project with Dario De Dominicis, filmed for 4 years by the Cuban-Brazilian director Margarita Hernandez on behalf of Bucanero Film and Globo Film of Brazil.
