Salvo Galano - biography 

Salvo Galano was born in Milan in 1968. He started taking photographs at the age of fourteen while he was attending the Santa Caterina da Siena College in Milan where he later obtained a degree in graphic and advertising techniques. In 1987, he began his studies at the Riccardo Bauer Institute in Milan obtaining a master degree in photography two years later. Between 1989-90 he studied in England and Scotland, where he worked as a correspondent for the Japanese magazine “London Diary.”
Over the next two years, Before starting collaborations as photo reporter with several Italian and international magazines, he collaborated with the portrait photographer Enzo Nocera and taught photography and printing techniques at the S. Caterina da Siena College in Milan. In 1992 beside working for several magazine, he was commissioned by the culture and information department of the photographic archives of the Lombardy region for a series of portraits of Italian leading figures in the world of art, culture and business, which was part of an exhibition aimed at promoting the image of Milan’s region at an international level. Between 1995 and 2001 Salvo Galano lived in New York City and worked as correspondent in the US and South America for major Italian magazines.
In the meantime his passion for portraits took him to travel to collect stories and emotions imprinted on the faces of the people he met in South America, in New York and in the tribes of the Amazon’s Rain Forest and Chiapas.
In 1998, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, supporting the achievement of the book “Sidewalk Stories”, awarded him with a fellowship in photography
He is currently living and working in Milan.

Books
The Past in the Present, - Art Studio, Milano, 1992.
Facial landscapes - Rain Forest, - Cappelletti Arte Contemporanea, Milano,2000.
Sidewalk stories, - powerHouse Books, New York, 2001.
L’isola, - Peliti Associati, Roma, 2002.

Exhibitions
2004 Facial Landscapes – Amazon: Galleria Cappelletti, Amsterdam
2002 L’isola - Museo Comunale - Isola di Ponza, Italia.
2001 Sidewalk stories - Buhl Foundation, New York.
2000 Facial Landscapes - Rainforest: Galleria Cappelletti, Milano.
1999 Parsons school of Design, New York.
1998 New York @ 100: Rockland Center for the Arts, New York.
1998 Facial Landscapes - Amazon: Ozone Gallery, New York.
1997 Facial Landscapes - Italy, New York, Venezuela: Ogilvy & Mather Gallery, NY
1993 Percorsi Lombardi: Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milano.
1993 Tributo a Enzo Nocera: Spazio Fiori Chiari, Milano.
1992 Il Passato nel Presente: Galleria Diaframma Kodak - Cultura, Milano.
1992 Fotografi Italiani: omaggio a Lanfranco Colombo, Accademia Carrara Bergamo.
1988 Zoomiamo Milano: Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milano.