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Final farewell to photographer and journalist Piergiorgio Branzi
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Final farewell to photographer and journalist Piergiorgio Branzi

Categories: Culture and creativity -Visual Arts
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Piergiorgio Branzi, born in 1928 in Signa and raised in Florence, died on 27 August at the age of 93.

He started as a photographer in the 1950s and then went on to work as a journalist at RAI. He became an international correspondent in Moscow and then in Paris, and produced many reports and documentaries throughout his career. He took up photography again in the mid-1990s and began experimenting with the possibilities of digital technology in 2007.

Numerous solo exhibitions of his images have been hosted in private galleries, museums and public institutions. In 2021, he participated in Dritto negli occhi. Conversazioni fotografiche (Straight in the eye: Conversations on Photography), a video project promoting contemporary Italian photography abroad, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and conceived and produced by Alessandra Mauro, editorial director of Contrasto Books.

Two of the photographer’s works, Muro Nero (Black Wall) (1954) and Muro Bianco (White Wall) (1954), are also featured in the photograph section of the Farnesina Collection, on the fifth floor of the ministry building.

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Clip from the interview for Dritto negli occhi

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