Piergiorgio Pirrone
Photographer
Rome
Between 2004 and 2008, he collaborated with the “Team” agency in Rome, and with “Grazia Neri” in Milan.
From 2004 to 2008, he was the official photographer for Roman theater “Ambra Jovinelli”, taking part in many theatrical photographic productions.
Since 2005 he’s been working with “Fandango” in television programs such “Parla con me” and “The show must go off”, as a stage photographer.
In 2007, he founded the Margo agency with his partner Martina Venettoni. He is the head of its photographic sector – “Margophoto”-
In 2009, he begins his ongoing collaboration with “Lapresse”
In 2012, he founded, along with other partners, new communication company “Ragù communication”
Since 2012 he begins his collaboration with traveling magazine “Marcopolo”, which entrusts him with creating covers and internal services for the implementation of photographic projects in Europe and in the rest of the world.
Over the last few years, he crafted himself in cutlery design and production, with many talents around the world, making use of his numerous international contacts, which came from plenty of exotic reportage services he created.
In 2020, a portraits book illustrating the Omo Valley tribes in Ethiopia will be published on a large-scale, by publishing house “Fahrenheit”.
Over the last 8 years, he issued several national and international travel reports for publication in many sector and non-sector publications, which contributed to creating a distinctive name within the travel section.
Since 2010, he’s a photographer in the most important film festivals such as Cannes, Venice and Rome
He is quite active in the field of cinema, taking shots of Italian and international celebrities, both in his Roman studio and outdoors.
In 2008, together with “Margo”, he designs social campaign “194. Non toccarla”, involving many celebrities and ordinary people.
In 2013, “Internazionale” publishes several shots from photographic project “(H) omo Valley”, in its famous “Portfolio” section, for the protection and safeguard of the Omo Valley tribes, which are threatened by dams being built
Within corporate production, he creates photographic services (campaigns, advertising and assignments) for several brands, including:
“Acqua di Parma”, “Christian Dior”, “Samsung”, “Mastercard”, “Generali Assicurazioni Italia” ”Eataly”, “Arena”, “Teuco”, “Fandango”, “Rai”, “Federparchi”, “Wwf”, “Screen”, “Nubea”…
He collaborates with airlines such as Etihad, AirMauritius, Qatar airways… as well as with many national and international tourism bodies, such as Tahiti tourism, Mauritius, Thailand, Portugal, Malaysia, Seychelles, Austria… with which he creates travel reports and photographic services for both editorial and internal purposes.
Among his others publications:
”Vanity fair”, “Grazia” “Donna Moderna”, “A”, “Xl”, “Repubblica”, “Corriere della sera”,”l’Espresso”, “Panorama”, “Dove”, ”Internazionale, “Marcopolo”, “Focus”, “Elle”, “F”,”Glamour”, “Chi”, “Oggi”, “Gente”…
Exhibitions (the most important ones):
Pubblicittà, a 2007 Solo exhibition at Palazzo Venezia, Rome
Venice movie stars photography award, 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 Collective exhibition in the “Casa del cinema”,
Roma Obiettivo terra, 2012 Group traveling exhibition: Rome, (Italy), Yeosu (Korea), Venlo (Holland)
(H) Omo Valley, 2012 Collective exhibition in “Galerie Corcia” within the “Mois de la photo off” exhibition, Paris Errances poetiques, 2012
Aspettando il Red Carpet, Rome, 2015, Collective exhibition in gallery “Plus Arte Puls”, dedicated to photographic pictures from the most important film festivals in Europe
In 2011, he won the first prize for best reportage photo in the Venice festival, as part of the “Venice movie stars photography award” competition.
In 2014, one of his services for Marcopolo earned him an award from the president of the Halkidiki Greek region (Chalkidiki peninsula), for “his exceptional contribution towards promoting the peninsula’s territory itself.”
In 2017, he won the prestigious Fiuggi prize for showbiz, in the special “photography” section”
In 2019, he won the “Coccia” prize, an official award of the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival, as author of the most beautiful photo taken at the Lido. The prize was handed to him by director Barbera.