BIO
Daniele Tamagni is a freelance photographer from Italy. In 2007 he won the Canon Young Photographer Award with a project about the Congolese dandys, “Sapeurs of Brazzaville.” He published a book in 2009 titled, “Gentlemen of Bacongo.” The designer Paul Smith, who wrote the preface, found inspiration for his S/S 2010 collection, and in 2010, Tamagni won the ICP INFINITY AWARD in the fashion category. He then travelled to Bolivia for a project on women wrestlers, winning the World Press Photo in Arts & Entertainment category in 2011. Between 2001 and 2012 Tamagni has continued to explore streetstyle trends and the aesthetic of transformation in cities like Havana, Dakar, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur with the aim to publish a book about global streetlife that will include all these projects. Tamagni is an art historian who digs into marginal street cultures, tries to link up with the drop outs, lost kids or poor guys, who look for identity and respect. And he finds them all over the world. www.photodantam.com
EXHIBITIONS
2013 Global STYLE Battles, ArtEco Gallery, London
2011 Africolor (Danzigerprojects Gallery), New York
Estetica della trasformazione (Meriggi) e L'arte di trasformarsi (Altavia) MIlano
2010-11 Gentlemen of Bacongo, The Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design , New York (group exhibition); Africa see you see me, Museu de Cidade, Lisbon (group exhibition); Visa pour l'image (Perpignan) Prins Claus for Culture and Development, Amsterdam, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
2009 Gentlemen of Bacongo, Paris Photo(Carrousel du Louvre Paris) London Newcastle Space Project, London; ex manifatture tabacchi città della luce, Torino (Torino Photo festival); Auditorium Mart Museum, Rovereto (Rovereto Immagini photofestival) ;Casa del Pane , Milano (Milano photofestival and african film festival)(group exhibitions)
2008 Gentlemen of Bacongo Canon giovani fotografi 2007” (miglior portfolio), Grazia Neri; Milano (group exhibition) Forma, Milano (group exhibition); Ian Parry Award, Getty Images Gallery, London (group exhibition)
2008 Looking Back Glass Eye, Exit Gallery Claire de Rouen Bookshop London (group exhibition)
2007 Peckham Rising, Sassoon Gallery, London (group); South of the Border, Nolias Gallery , London
2006 Africamerica, Artelier Gallery, Milan (group exhibition)
2005 Vita da Muri , Hoepli bookshop, Milan
AWARDS
2013 Sony World Photography Awards (nomination)
2011 World Press Photo Contest : second prize, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT STORIES ( selected press )
2010 Winner ICP INFINITY AWARD applied /fashion photography
2009 2nd Prize Amilcare Ponchielli
2008 Winner Photocontest marinella Cassina Click Up Brescia
2007 Winner best portfolio Canon Young Photographer
