Michele Vacchiano was born in Turin (Piedmont, northwestern Italy)
in 1951. Master of Arts at the University of Turin in 1979.
He has written several books about nature photography for important
Italian publishers:
Macrofotografia (Close Up, 1985); La riproduzione fotografica di documenti
(Documents Photography, 1987); La fotografia di paesaggio (Landscape
Photography, 1988); Tecniche di caccia fotografica (How to Photograph
Wild Animals, 1988); Guida al fototrekking (Hiking Photography, 1992).
Fotografia in montagna (Mountain Photography, 1998).
He usually works in the western Alps, and especially in the Grand Paradise
National Park, about which he wrote the photographic book La roccia
incantata (The Enchanted Rock, 1992). He also made some documentary
audiovisuals about mountain life.
From 1986 to 1995 he taught Techniques and Aesthetics of Photography
at the Journalism School and at the Superior Institute for Communication
Sciences of Turin. He wrote the essay L'ordine apparente (The Seeming
Order, 1992) about the semiology of visual communications.
He has been promoter and president of the Association for Nature, Photography
and Alpine Culture Research (ARNICA).
He is the Italian representative of the World Field Photographers Association.
He contributes to several newspapers and photography agencies. From1998
to 2000 he was the editor of "Portfolio immagine", the first Italian
on-line magazine for professional photographers. Since November, 1999
he edits the Large Format Photography pages for "Nadir magazine", a
Rino Giardiello's on-line magazine.
His pictures were exhibited in several occasions and have achieved a
considerable success.
He lives with his wife Claudia and his son Giorgio near the center of
Turin, but he often leaves the town for a lonely sixteenth century house
at the foot of Monte Rosa.
He works either in small or in medium and large format.
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