At the fireplace (2017) Photography by Salvo Veneziano

Salvo Veneziano is a journalist for specialized photo magazines and a professional photographer since the 80s, in the last few years is mainly teaching photography at “ACSI Palermofoto" and going ahead with his artistic research.

He uses both digital and silver photography and is experimenting a lot with some old printing techniques like cyanotype on glass plates and bichromate gum printing.
Salvo often uses plastic toy cameras like Diana or Holga to achieve directly on film the atmosphere and the effects and the defects he is looking for (i.e. Kinesphera and 900B series).

In the half of the 90s, Salvo started research on the female nude, he worked in B&W and used a torch to paint the bodies in the darkness. About 15 years later he started to print that photos (until then never published and still in progress) on glass, giving color to the bodies through the blue of the cyanotype. The glass plates of the "Blue nudes" series are each a unique piece, in each one, the imperfections of the emulsion paint confuse themselves with the painting of the light on the bodies.

Salvo Veneziano is born in 1961. He living and working in Palermo (Italy). He has participated in many exhibitions:  Casa & Putia, Arles Festival Off in 2021, “Music-i” work in progress, Cantieri culturali della Zisa, Palermo (2019), Festival Européen de la Photo de Nu, Espace Van Gogh Arles, 2017….

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1961
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists

The Artist was highlighted in an article in Artmajeur Magazine:

Salvo Veneziano, photography to get to know people