Giacomo Brunelli is an Italian photographer, born in Perugia in 1977, who lives in London. He graduated in International Communications in 2002. He works in black and white on film and makes gelatin silver prints in his own darkroom.
He grew up in the countryside and spent his childhood among animals. His first major project, The Animals, shows dogs, cats, birds and farm animals photographed up close with vintage cameras. It won the Nature category of the 2008 Sony World Photography Awards and was published by Dewi Lewis Publishing in 2008, with an introduction by Alison Nordström. An expanded edition followed in 2016.
In 2012 The Photographers’ Gallery in London commissioned him to photograph the city. The series became Eternal London (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2014) and was shown at the gallery in 2014. His later books include Self Portraits and Hamburg (Editions Bessard), New York (Skinnerboox, 2020) and Venice (2022), a self-published noir view of the city made over many trips.
His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The New Art Gallery Walsall, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts and the Portland Art Museum.
