Carlo Bevilacqua, photographer and documentary film director, born in Palermo, Sicily in 1961. Mention of Honour in the International Photographic Awards 2008 and 2009 , in America Photo 2008, in Tau Visual Professional Prize for Creativity 2008, winner of the HF Prize in SI Fest Savignano Immagini , his career has spanned more than twenty years, alternating photography and direction of documentaries and video clips. He started taking pictures in Palermo in the 80's, originally focusing on societal and anthropological photographic studies. He decided to move to Paris and then Milan where he took photography courses at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED).
He then started working with advertising and public relations agencies and magazines creating photography spreads, advertising campaigns, videos and films for major Italian and international companies.
He has directed various pieces including, together with francesco Di Loreto, Little Red Robin Hood - a biographic documentary about Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine's singer and drummer, with Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, Paul Weller and Nick Mason - and various video clips.
With his works has attended in numerous films and photo festival.
He started working with the Marka Photo agency in 1995. In 1998, together with Enrico Grisanti, he founded XTV Productions, a production company specialized in photography and video services for advertising, editorial and corporate communications. The next year he developed one of the first Italian web TV channels, XTV Webchannel.
Some of his last work include
The Last Wall
A photographic essaye on the Last European Walled City Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus that despite UN efforts at resolution and a recent easing of tensions remain's Europe's last divided city.
The book In Italia, a black and white photographic journey
through eleven italian towns published by Federico Motta Editore for Antonveneta Bank and with a Mario Botta text , displayed at Prize for the Photographic book in Photography Festival of Rome 2008 and at the Rencontres International de la Photographie Arles 2008
Big Sister Because Of You, a documentary about Big Sister, a Prague Live Internet Brothel based on the work of the Czech photographer Hana Jakrlova.
Exhibitions
Quotidiani (AVIS - Palermo 1983)
Giardini Immaginari (Palermo 1984)
A Different Robin Hood - co-autore Francesco Di Loreto
Lingotto - Salone della Musica (Turin Italy 2000)
Indian Stills Open Care Palazzo del Ghiaccio (Milano 2007 )
Indian Stills Galleria delle Battaglie - Biennale di Fotografia (Brescia 2008 )
Indian Stills Boutographie ( Montpellier 2009 Francia)
Indian Stills FotoGrafia Festival Roma 2009
Indian Stills Turin Photo Festival 2009
Group Shows and Auctions
Nuovi Soggetti a Rischio Magna Grecia Festival Parco Monumentale San Nicolò (Syracuse, italy 1985),
Progetto Sindbad
SPAZIO EMBLEMA Aprile 2003 Milan Italy
Urban Zen Donna Karan Foundation Auction Stephan Weiss Studio ( New York 2008)
Foto8 Summer Show Host Gallery ( London 2008 )
La Magia della Polaroid Bibbiena - Centro Italiano della Fotografia d'Autore (Bibbiena - Arezzo, Italy) 2009
International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography ( Fort Collins Colorado USA 2008 )
Sotheby's Asta di Fotografia Contemporanea a Favore del CAF ONLUS (Milan, Italy November 2008)
Prima Visione 2008 Milano e il Mondo Un Anno di Fotografie Galleria Bel Vedere (Milan Italy February 2009)
Gisbert Lippelt Low Cost Life - Slideshow - FotoGrafia Festival Roma 2009
Filmography
• Little Red Robin Hood
A documentary film on Robert Wyatt - singer, drummer and founding member of The Soft Machine, the legendary band in the international musical arena between the late Sixties and early Seventies who inspired the development of the made-in-Canterbury jazzy rock. A reserved artist and a melancholy poet of sound, yet disenchanted and ironical at the same time, he is a unique master in the contemporary musical scene. A story of thirty years of artistic evolution and life narrated through Wyatt's own eyes and those of: Elvis Costello, Carla Bley, Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music), Hugh Hopper (The Soft Machine), Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix's Experience bass player), Chris Cutler, Lol Coxhill, Dave MacRae (Matching Mole), Paul Weller (The Style Council), Steve Beresford and Keith Tippett
Moira Orfei Amore Fiori
A 60-minute documentary film about the life of Moira Orfei , the most famous Italian Circus Star.By Moira's own words and her husband's narrative tale ,this documentary film reveals the secrets behind the scene of Moira Orfei's 40-year-long success. A colourful Pop fresco in which, along with cuts of the movies she shot with Mastroianni, Gassman,Totò directed by Monicelli or Germi, images and dreamlike «chapiteau» world are mixed. Somewhat of a gigantic dream-machine that moves along with the Circus' incessant travelling from place to place.
Big Sister, Because of You a Prague Live Internet BrHotel based one photographic work of the the Czech photographer Hana Jakrlova.
Film Festival and Broadcasting
Little Red Robin Hood
Merano Film Festival 1999 ,
MedFestival Arcipelago 2000,
Salone della Musica di Torino 1999,
In-Edit Festival di Madrid e Barcellona,
After Forum Festival 2005 di Ferrara.
Broadcasted By
Multithematiique Planete Germany
Multithematiique Planete Francia
Multithematiique Planete Italy
La 7 Italy
Danish TV 1
Moira Orfei Amore Fiori
BiografilmFestival (Special Event and Opening Film Festival),
Med Film Fest 2006,
MIFF 2006,
Hai Visto Mai 2007 Siena,
Immaginaria Film Festival 2006,
Roma Doc Fest 2006,
Festival di Palazo Venezia Roma 2006,
Arcipelago 2006,
Pordenone Cinemazero 2007
Cortona On The Move, photography in travel, is the first international festival centered on this genre of photography. Thinking about this event, we have given the journey the importance it deserves declining this word in all its forms and definitions. Our times are characterized by nomadism, speed and everyday's mobility: ways of being in motion, to explore, watch, find out. Cortona On The Move, photography in travel responds to this conceptually widespread idea of travel where the photography and photographers, travelers by definition, are the focus of the attention and are leading us through their eyes in various corners of the world and beyond.
Traveling, moving, migrating, being in motion are all well known conditions, common to human civilizations of all times and geographical areas and have different m...
Carlo Bevilacqua/Parallelozero
INTO THE SILENCE - Hermits of the Third Millennium
Une nouvelle utopie? Une réalité lointaine? Rien de tout cela. L'hermitage peut sembler être un paradoxe dans notre société célébrant l'individu mais c'est en fait un phénomène grandissant et fascinant. Les hermites modernes ne se livrent pas à l'isolation à des fins d'ambition sociale ou personnelle, ni pour des questions de mysanthropie. La plupart d'entre eux ont un passé religieux -moines, prêtres, nones- mais beaucoup d'autres sont issus d'une classe sociale moyenne bien établie -architectes, médecins, juristes, écrivains et enseignants- en ayant eu assez de la routine socia...
The Last Wall at Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2010
November 9, 2009 marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Almost no one knows, in Europe there is still one last “wall” that divides a capital and a state.
Despite UN efforts at resolution and a recent easing of tensions, Cyprus, and especially its capital and largest city, Nicosia, is the last European area to be crossed by a ceasfire line that divides the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots....
Indian Visions is a dramatic and thought-provoking selection of images by Indian and international photographers curated by Robin Saikia of Gallery 118, who has dedicated the exhibition to his late cousin Ashok Saikia, the distinguished former Joint Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office and himself a keen photographer. Spectacular aerial kite photography by Nicolas Chorier will be shown alongside intimate scenes of working life by Diwan Manna. Vinita Agarwal's studies of life in Rajasthan complement prizewinning images by Carlo Bevilacqua. Ravi Agarwal shows striking studies of environmental issues alongside beautifully textured Mumbai street scenes by Katarina Baliova.
Indian Stills
Brought back from a trip to India, these images have such simple beauty that the eyes of an author known to emerge from the chaos ...
A photographic exhibition, a slideshow and a multimedia installation, to remember, at the Plaza 2009, International Contemporary Art Exhibition that celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall, the laceration of Cyprus and its capital, Nicosia last territory and last divided capital of Europe for almost forty by a real wall as well as a political division and military.
Photographs by Carlo Bevilacqua
Texts and voices of Saverio Paffumi, Denis Curti, Fabio Mario Santopietro
Installation NABA Scenography Lab Curated by Stefania Vaccari, Carlo Bevilacqua
November 9, 2009 mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Almost no one knows, however, that in Europe there is still one last “wall” that divides a capital and a state. Cyprus.
Cyprus, and espe...