Francesco Giordano, born 1992 is a Munich based photographer with a personal focus on queer topics. He graduated 2017 from the faculty of Design at University of Applied Sciences in Munich. He works as an editorial and commercial photographer for magazines, agencies, corporates and cultural institutions in the fields of portraits, still life and interior – always looking for a conceptual idea, for aesthetics and for the possibility to use photography as a tool to make people think.
Selected Clients:
Alois Dallmayr KG, Münchner Kammerspiele, HEPP – THE ART OF SERVICE, addfame GmbH, Münchenstift GmbH, ZEIT online, Reisenthel, BAUMEISTER – Das Architektur-Magazin, Spiegel Wissen, Münchner Gesellschaft für Stadterneuerung mbH, YCCP GmbH, Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Galerie Max Goelitz, Versus Gallery, Jugendbildung Hamburg, Mannschaft Magazin, Adobe, Kulturreferat München etc.
photo: Gina Bolle
contact:
c/o Atelier Thal | Fraunbergstraße 11 | 81379 Munich, Germany | +49 157 8467 8778
feel free to drop me a line mail@francesco-giordano.com or stay updated and follow me on Instagram
Awards and Exhibitions
09/2022 Solo exhibition of the project "Italienisches Leben in München" at Münchenstift in Munich
09/2022 Exhibition of queer:raum during the Ander Art Festival in Munich
07/2022 First queer:raum exhibion at Münchner Aids-Hilfe e.V. during the CSD in Munich
06/2022 Bayern Innovativ "Junge Kunst und neue Wege" – Grant
06/2022 "377. Inside India's Queer Community" photo book winner at Belfast Photo Festival
10/2021 VG Bildkunst, Neustart Kultur – Grant program 2021
10/2021 Exhibition of "377. Inside India's Queer Community" at "Cafe Lozzi", Munich
07/2021 Exhibition of "377. Inside India's Queer Community" during Gay Pride at "Das Zwo", Munich
06-11/2020 "Fluchtursache: Liebe" special exhibition in Ballinstadt, Hamburg
12/2019 "Rainbow Refugees (Stories)" exhibition at Tollwood Festival, Munich
04/2019"Rainbow Refugees (Stories)" group exhibition and event in MUCCA, Munich
11/2018 "Halb Voll / Halb Leer" group exhibition in Farbenladen, Munich
11/2018 Photo18, Munich Exhibition of the Rainbow Refugees Booklets
10/2017 Photography on a Postcard Exhibition in Shoreditch, London
10/2017 International Photography Grant in the category Free Photo Contest, Architecture (nominee)
07/2015 „beziehungsweise“ group exhibition in Farbenladen Munich
Features and Publications (selected)
06/2022 Süddeutsche Zeitung – Queerness ist auch eine politische Haltung (by Clara Löffler and Lea Mohr)
12/2021 Süddeutsche Zeitung – Queerer Stolz (by Sarah Zapf)
07/2021 Süddeutsche Zeitung – Zwischen Tradition und Moderne (by Sarah Zapf)
04/2021 Zeit online – LGBTIQA in Indien: Ich will meiner Mutter nicht noch mehr Kummer bereiten (by Stefanie Witterauf and Maria Chrstoph)
02/2021 MUCBOOK – Crowdfunding: Queere Begegnungen mit Indien (Interview by Florian Kraus)
10/2020 New York Times – In Munich, a Theater’s Ambitious New Era Starts Mid-Pandemic (by A.J. Goldman)
10/2020 Abendzeitung –„Eine Jugend in Deutschland": Vom Abstürzen und Fliegen (by Michael Stadler)
02/2020 Spiegel – „HIV zu haben, ist kein Verbrechen" (by Stefanie Witterauf and Maria Christoph)
06/2019 VICE – „Queere Senioren erzählen von ihren Coming-Outs“ (by Maria Christoph)
09/2019 Süddeutsche Zeitung – Farbenrausch am Hofgarten (by Evelyn Vogel)
07/2019 Leo – „Geschichten, die erzählt werden müssen“ (Interview by Benrd Müller)
07/2019 Passauer Neue Presse – „Die Freiheit zu lieben“ (by Jasmin Ehbauer)
09/2016 Süddeutsche Zeitung – „Mein München: Flaucher" (Interview by Stefanie Witterauf)