Francesco Giordano is a Spanish-Italian photographer and creative artist living and working in Munich, Germany. He has dedicated himself to projects focused on LGBTQIA+ themes and migration.
Giordano uses photography to highlight societal themes by creating more visibility for marginalised groups and queer issues. He experiments with creative techniques such as long time exposures, shifts and strong colours to create more tension. The most important aspect for him is to portray his protagonists with pride and dignity. With a background in design studies, where target groups, comprehensibility and sustainability have an importance, Giordano's conceptual work also focuses on accessibility and inclusivity.
In addition to his work as a photographer, Giordano also operates as a curator, a community organiser and creative artist. In his collaborative projects, these roles all come together by putting on interdisciplinary exhibitions and events in public space: In „Rainbow Refugees (Stories)“ (2019), „377. Inside India’s Queer Community“ (2020) and „queer:raum“ (2022) his goal is to bring people together, to create a stage and to find collaborators in society that help him to initiate awareness. Giordano is inspired by diversity, the cohesion of communities and their striving to improve society.
Giordano's current project, „Mit Euren Spuren“, aims to create a bridge between queer photographers and LGBTQIA+ seniors. The result will be a photography exhibition in June 2024 showcasing portraits and conversations between the generations. The project explores themes of queer struggles past and present, the loss of biographies, when there are no descendants and the rising importance of chosen families. The project is a cooperation with the photographers Stella Deborah Traub, Florian Tenk, Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert, Mara Fischer und Teo Ana Apostelescu.
contact:
c/o Atelier Thal | Fraunbergstraße 11 | 81379 Munich
0049 157 8467 8778
free to drop me a line mail@francesco-giordano.com or stay updated and follow me on Instagram
Photo: Sandra Singh
Awards and Exhibitions
11/2023 Group exhibition of the masterclass f3-Portrait with Sibylle Fendt in Freiraum für Fotografie with Ms Brini Olsen in Berlin
10/2023 Exhibition of Mit Euren Spuren during DENKRAUM DEUTSCHLAND 2023 – HEY ALTER! at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich
06/2023 Residency in Galerie Einwand of Münchner Stadtmuseums working on the project „queer:raum X Galerie Einwand: Who am I where?“
06/2023 Exhibition of The own walls heal wounds during the Ljubljana Pride Festival in Slovenia
05/2023 Exhibition of the research project Alexander Sacharoff in cooperation with Munich Dance Hinstories in the Habibi Kiosk of Münchner Kammerspiele
03/2023 Group exhibition during the international weeks against racism at Alte Utting in Munich
02/2023 Group exhibition We kissed with „Panty Paradise“ at Kösk in Munich
11/2022 Exhibition of my publications at Super BOOKS 3, Haus der Kunst, Munich
10/2022 Exhibition of The own walls heal wounds in Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle during „I Have No Words – There Is No Title“ in Munich
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)