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Gabriele Basilico (born in Milano in 1944) is one of today’s best known documentary photographers in Europe. Cities and industrial landscapes are his fields of investigation.

Trained as an architect, he takes photographs of pieces of architecture and works for publishers, industrial concerns, public and private institutions. In 1983 the PAC in Milano presented his first important exhibition “Milano, ritratti di fabbriche”.

In 1984 and 1985, he took part in the D.A.T.A.R. photographic mission, following the French government’s initiative, to document the changes in the national landscape of the time.He was then invited to participate in many similar projects in different European countries : Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Austria…

In 1990, he was awarded the “Grand Prix International du Mois de la Photo ( International Great Prize of the Photography Month) thanks to “Porti di mare” shown in Paris, a photographic research on various seaports.