Cristiano Volk

Photographer

Cristiano Volk is an Italian photographer who lives and works in a small town called Staranzano in northeastern Italy. After a short period of study at the Spazio Labo' in Bologna, he has worked with artists such as Massimo Mastrorillo at the D.O.O.R. Academy of Rome and Federico Clavarino. His works have a critical view of social issues, political and cultural. Various interests are involved in his works such as tourism in Venice as part of the project Sinking Stone, the major depressive disorder in Mélaina Cholé and its connotations consumerism and money in Laissez-faire. The purpose of his work is deeply political, as it is rooted in the need to explore how humans do they relate to the spaces (both cultural and geographical) in which they live. Sinking Stone received the Slideluck Jason Fulford Award Gazebook in 2017. In 2018, he was selected for the FUAM Dummy Book Award and the SELF PUBLISH RIGA Dummy Contest. In April 2019 his first book Sinking Stone was published by Witty Books and, at the end of the same year, was selected by American Suburb X magazine among the best photo books of 2019. The following year his second book was Mélaina Cholé published by the American publishing house Yoffy Press coming selected by the magazines Internazionale, Photobookstore and Photobook Journal as one of the best books published in 2020. Since 2020 he has been represented by the London agency Millennium Images. He was awarded the FRESH EYES TALENT 2020, award sponsored by GUP Magazine. FRESH EYES presents the 100 best emerging European photographers of the year. In June 2020 he was selected among the finalists of the COMBAT prize. From 2021 his works are part of the prestigious Vontobel art collection in Zurich which preserves, among others, works by Paul Graham and Viviane Sassen.