Giuseppe Cocco Biography
Giuseppe Cocco (1957 - ) was born in Rome in 1957. In 1977 he graduated in architecture and, since then, he began working with photography. He has been an analogue photographer of Architecture, Urban Landscapes and Territories since 1977, and a multimedia photographer since the birth of digital and the internet; with the blog AgricoolTour it narrates the excellences and agricultural products and with Penisolabella, it documents architecture, urban landscapes, places, territories, material and immaterial territorial identities of minor Italy; the beauty of the natural architectural, urban, rural, anthropized landscape heritage, and at the same time, the contrasts of ugliness, violence, abuse and tampering. In 1989 he was commissioned by the Department of Urban Planning, Territorial Planning and Environmental Protection of the Lazio Region, to carry out the photographic survey of the urban, environmental and territorial situation of the region, as part of the first Landscape and Territorial Coordination Plans (Galasso law) . Since 1997 he has been a member of the Journalists' Association. From 1999 to 2001 he held the position of Head of Press Office of the CTG (Youth Tourist Centre) and from 2000 to 2003 he held the role of press officer with responsibility for communication 2.0 and web services of the Minister for Regional Affairs. Since 2004 he has been a photographer, contract lecturer and subject expert at the Free Academies of Fine Arts in Rome and Aleppo (Syria) and holds the chairs of digital photographic shooting and artistic processing, language and history of photography. In 2012 he received the national environmental award Gianfranco Merli for his photographic commitment to the environment. Since 2010 he has been the national photographers manager of the UGL Creativi union and a member of the Italian Geographical Society.
