“Life is eternal movement, photography is eternal stillness.
In this immense difference is its magnificence
e its destiny as creator of icons and of unreal, and almost magical, frames.”
Giovanni Gastel
Giovanni Gastel was born in Milan on the 27th December 1955 from Giuseppe Gastel and Ida Visconti of Modrone and was the last of seven children.
In the Seventies, he came in contact with photography for the first time. Since that moment, he started a long period of apprenticeship, until in 1975-76 he was offered the big opportunity of working with the auction house Christie’s.
The turning point was in 1981 when he met Carla Ghiglieri, who will become his agent and will introduce him to the fashion world. After the printing of his first still-life on the magazine Annabella in 1982, he started collaborating with Vogue Italia and, later on, with the magazines Mondo Uomo and Donna, thanks to the encounter with Flavio Lucchini, director of Edimoda, and Gisella Borioli.
His high commitment with the photography world put him in contact with the Italian Association of Professional Photographers, of which he was President from 1996 to 1998. His artistic consecration arrived in 1997 when the Triennale di Milano dedicated him a solo exhibition, curated by the contemporary art historian Germano Celant.
His professional success consolidated itself in the following decade and his name appeared in specialized magazines together with major Italian photographers, such as Oliviero Toscano, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Ferdinando Scianna or by the side of Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino and Juergen Teller.
In 2002 during the La Kore Oscar della Moda event, he received the Oscar for Photography. He currently is the president of the Italian Association of Professional Photographers and a permanent member of the Polaroid Museum of Chicago.
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