Born in 1967 in Turin and based between Italy and Spain, Paolo Verzone has been a member of Agence VU since 2003.
For almost 30 years, Paolo has been photographing the world around him. During the last three decades, He completed several long-term projects: A portrait series of Europeans at the beach, Seeuropeans (1994 / 2002), or the Moscow Project (1991 /2001/ 2011/ 2021), three decades of work on the muscovites. With his project on the cadets of the leading European military academies, which started in 2009 and was completed in 2014, Paolo Verzone maps us to contemporary Europe through a part of its youth while questioning European identity. The work was published as a book by the French publisher La Martiniere in 2014. Since 2015, Paolo Verzone has been working on the Arctic following scientific topics and environmental subjects. He works for magazines such as. National Geographic, Newsweek, Le Monde, The Independent, Sunday Times, Liberation, Vanity Fair, Geo, GQ, Amica, Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Mare, Courier International, Das Magazin. Paolo Verzone was awarded World Press Photo in 2000, 2009, and 2015 and Picture of The Year International in 2023. His photographs are part of different collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the BibliothèqueNationale de France, and the Istituto Nazionale della Grafica in Rome. Paolo has been a Canon Ambassador since 2017.
Grants & Awards
2022
Pictures of the Year International: First place in Science and Natural History, Picture Story
2016
Premio Osvaldo Buzzi, Italy
2015
World Press Photo 2015 - 3rd Prize Portraits stories
American Photography 31
2011
Sony World Photography Awards 2011
2010
PGB Photo Award
American Photography 26: selected
2009
World Press Photo - 3rd Prize stories Sports Features
IPA International Photography Awards: Honorable mention Portrait, Personality
American Photography 25: selected
2001
World Press Photo 2001 - 3rd Prize Portrait single
Premio Canon Giovani Fotografi 2000, winner of the best portfolio section
2000
Premio per un Progetto Fotografico 1999, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence
Attention Talent Photo 2000 Galeries FNAC PARIS, Special Mention of jury
1998
Final selection of the “Leica Oskar Barnack” prize
1992
Kodak European Panorama Arles, France
Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Istituto Nazionale della Grafica, Rome, Italy
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 Reimagining Dinosaurs: Xposure Photo Festival UAE.
2022 Arctic Zero: Ragusa Foto Festival Italy
Arctic Zero: Riaperture Festival Ferrara, Italy.
2021 Arctic Zero: Clervaux Cite’ de l’Image, Luxembourg
Svalbard, outdoor exhibition Associazione culturale La clé sur la porte Aosta Italy
2019 Cortona on the Move festival, Italy “Arctic Zero”
2018 Plenum Galley Catania, Italy
2017 Photolux Festival Lucca, Italy
2016
Planches Contact Photographic festival Deauville, France
Sifest Savignano Immagini festival, The Moscow Project Albert & Verzone, Savignano sul Rubicone Italy
"Confraternités" musée Saint-Remi Reims / Epernay / France
"Meta Incognita" Biblioteca provinciale Antonio Mellusi Benevento, Italy
2015
Fotoleggendo festival, Officine Fotografiche Roma, Italy
The Invalides Army Museum, Paris France
Wiener Neustadt castle, Austria
World Press Photo exhibition
2014
Festival Photomed, Sanary Sur mer, France and Beirut, Lebanon
F.i.t.e Festival, France
2013
Bercy Village Paris
2012
Moscow Project & Seeuropeans Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon
“Moscou Plages”, Ville de Rennes, France
2010
Seeuropeans, Galleria BlowUp, Torino
2008
Voi Siete Qui, Galleria FNAC di Milano
2007
Hermès, Installation Piazza San Carlo, Torino, Italie
2005
Grandi Bagnanti, Galleria Grazia Neri Milano
2004
Grandi Bagnanti, Accademia di Romania, Roma
2002
Galleria Minima Peliti Associati, Rome
2000
Septembre de la Photo, Nice, France
1999
Kowasa Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Agorà gallery, Turin, Italy
1995
Biennial of Braga, Braga, Portugal
1994
Acta International Gallery, Rome, Italy
1992
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Kodak European Panorama of Young Professional Photography
Biennial Young Artists of Mediterranean Europe, Valencia, Spain
Selected group exhibitions
2023 Kranj Foto Fest, Slovenia.
Belluno Foto Festival, Italy.
2022 Traversées d’Europe by the French Senate, Luxembourg Garden Paris, France.
Venice Foto Lab Festival, Venezia Italy.
Focus on Future. 14 Fotografi per l’Agenda ONU 2030 Musei Reali Torino, Italy.
2021 Treviso Photographic Festival Italy
2020 Themed Fortnight 01 Expo 2020 Biodiversity French Pavillion Dubai
2019 Sifest Savignano Immagini festival Italy
2018 Rencontres de la Photographie, Hope, The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation Arles, France
2016
"In posa" Galleria del Cembalo Roma, Italy
Festival Internacional Fotografia Valparaiso, Chile
Patrimoines Revisité, Reims France
2015
World Press Photo exhibition
2012
Galerie Catherine Houard, Paris, France
Paris Romantique exhibition, Paris, France
2011
Sony World Photography Awards, London, New York
Vietato! I limiti che cambiano la fotografia FSM Gallery Firenze, Italy
2010
Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, Paris, France
Facce da straniero, Turin, Italy
2009
Galerie Catherine Houard, Paris, France
World Press Photo 2009 worldwide exhibition
2007
Centre Culturel des Carmes, Langon France
2006
Galerie VU, Paris, France
Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Netherlands
2005
Galerie VU, Paris, France
2004
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2003
Quotidiano al Femminile, Galleria Gruppo Credito Valtellinese
Refettorio delle Stelline, Milano, Italy
2002
Backlight 02, Photographic Centre Nykyaika Tampere, Finland
2001
World Press Photo 2001, worldwide exhibition
“Il 900 in fotografia e il caso torinese", Istituto Nazionale della Grafica, Roma Palazzo Fontana di Trevi
"Border Stories", Biennale internazionale di Fotografia, Turin, Italy
Canon Fabbrica Eos Gallery, Milan, Italy
Toscana Foto Festival, Massa Marittima, Italy
Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy
2000
FNAC Etoile Gallery, Paris, France
Fondazione Studio Marangoni Gallery, Florence, Italy
1999
Galerie Colbert Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Galerie Municipale du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
1998
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
1997
Galleria Minima Peliti Associati, Rome, Italy
Chiesa di S.Filippo, Turin, Italy
1993
The Permanente Museum, Milan, Italy
1992
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie Arles, France
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