Giovanni Melillo Kostner's Page

Current position and base (organization, company, etc.)

GMK-Photography and Consulting
Regensburgerallee 11
39042 Brixen
Italy

Biography

Born in Brixen, Italy, 1979, after having studied Artistic Photography at the European Academy of Operative Arts in Perugia, Italy, graduated in Photography and Film Design at the Faculty of Design, University of Applied Sciences of Bielefeld. Completed one-year-long academic exchange at the UDLA University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico studying Anthropology and History. He has been partial docent, substitute or special guest professor in the areas of visual communication, photography and visual arts for universities in Mexico and Italy: UPAEP Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, CENART Centro Nacional de Artes - National School of Painting, Sculpture and Graving “La Esmeralda”, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and University “L’Orientale” of Naples, Italy. Since 2007, he focuses on the Chinese migration to South Tyrol and its cultural exchange between Italy and China, following his subjects’ flux until their country of origin. Since 2008, he is alumnus of the long-term seminary “Reflexions Masterclass” under the artistic direction of the photographer Giorgia Fiorio and the art curator Gabriel Bauret.

Specialities & interests

Since 2003, I am engaged in researching the migration phenomenon through photography moving me constantly into diverse situations in Italy, Germany, Mexico and China. It has been in 2008 when I decided to focus my artistic research on issues that are tight related to my own personal experiences in a process of construction and definition of the socio-cultural identity. As result of a mixed marriage -my mother is a native Ladin, a minority ethnic group of the Italian Alps, and my father was from South Italy-, in South Tyrol, Italy, a recently reconfigured multicultural borderland that is also in a continuous construction of its own identity. I am attempting to understand this complex process of identity construction in a way that has become the only feasible one for me to do so: by doing photography.

Current geographic base:

North America, Europe

Category(ies) that best describe(s) me:

freelance photographer, educator

I have a:

website, blog, online portfolio, other

Web URL

http://www.giovannimelillo.de

Web URL

http://www.lightstalkers.org/giovanni_melillo

Contact details (email, phone, IM, etc.)

E mail@giovannimelillo.de
M +39 392 822 56 40
skype: gmelillo
follow me on twitter @gmkphotography
blog: http://blog.giovannimelillo.de
Ongoing: http://www.opencitymuseum.com