Michele Pero’s biography (short version)
Daily life always fascinated Michele Pero
In spite he begun working in advertisement and commercial photography, between Milan and Florence, It’s been photojournalism that attracted him so much and with which he could declare his love with photography.
Traveling the Balkans in the 90s
Michele covered the conflicts of Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo. His pictures were published in all Italian newspapers and magazines, and also abroad.
His work “Kosovo, I care” was itinerant exhibition that covered the most important towns in Italy and Europe. In Nuernberg it became permanent exhibition for years.
In 2012 he was to war fields in Syria. He reported pictures form bombings in Aleppo and refugee camp of A’zaz.
He has been teaching photography since 1998.
He is the founder in 2003 of the academy of photography ‘TheDarkroom‘ of Florence. With an asset of thousands of students passed through his classes, to date it is a school of multi-medial arts and visual communication with premises in Italy and abroad.
He has published two books
‘La Dolce Vita Made in Germany’, his latest project, which has become an itinerant exhibition, and ‘Goodbye sweet home’, a project born after Michele was invited by the University of Pisa to exhibit his works on twenty years of wars he covered between the Balkans and Syria.
Today he is back to his early love, darkroom photography. Michele works mainly with early photography techniques such as those of the XIX century, salt paper, collodion, cyanotype, Van Dyke and carbon prints. He has founded a group called ‘Camera Work Project’ to spread know-how on ancient photography printing techniques.
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Biografia di Michele Pero (versione breve)
Negli anni ’90 ha coperto le guerre dei Balcani.
Dalla Croazia alla Bosnia, dall’Albania al Kosovo, ha realizzato storie che sono state pubblicate in tutti i quotidiani italiani e all’estero. Recentemente ha fotografato in Siria, ad Aleppo, nel 2012, durante i bombardamenti sulla città.
Insegna fotografia dal 1998.
Con migliaia di studenti provenienti da tutte le parti del mondo, nel 2003 fonda la sua scuola di fotografia professionale TheDarkroom, oggi dedicata all’insegnamento delle arti multimediali e della comunicazione visiva, con sedi in Italia e all’estero.
Nel 2015 pubblica due libri
“La Dolce Vita Made in Germany”, un progetto controcorrente sulla vita sociale in Germania, che diventa una mostra itinerante. “Goodbye sweet home”, su invito dell’Università di Pisa, un progetto sulle guerre d’Albania, Kosovo e Siria e sulle conseguenti migrazioni forzate di rifugiati.
Le antiche tecniche fotografiche
Oggi Michele lavora con le antiche tecniche dell’800, come la carta salata e il collodio. Ha fondato il gruppo Camera Work Project per diffondere la conoscenza sulle prime tecniche fotografiche dei primi del XIX secolo.
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