Paolo Giordano, (born in Naples in 1954) trained in Milan, where he graduated in Architecture from the Polytechnic in 1978. From the very beginning, he has used photography as a tool for critical research into the image. Between the late 1970s and the 1990s, he created realistic photomontages that challenged the notion of an objective photographic image; his work was published in numerous Italian and German current affairs magazines. In 1993, he took part in the exhibition ‘50 Photographers from the Post-War Period to the Present’, curated by Melissa Harris for the Aperture Foundation, at the Guggenheim Museum in Venice.

After a long period focused on design and artisanal production in India and Nepal, in 2014 he returned to artistic photography with The Valley of the Whirling Trees. Since then, he has developed a body of work centred on the manipulation of the image as a critical and cognitive act, through digital and sculptural interventions that generate hybrid forms, suspended between the organic and the artificial.

In recent years, he has focused his work on classical imagery with the project A Digital Journey Into the Classics, an investigation that approaches Western visual heritage not from a conservative perspective, but as a territory to be dismantled and reactivated.