About
GianOrso is an Italian photographer, living in Rome, passionately obsessed with Classical Art, which has inspired and influenced his vision, his personal approach in portraiting the human body, in all the shapes, and in the search of his ideal beauty in an open range of possibilities and shades.
Some of his photos have been featured in several international male photography magazines:
MASCULAR (UK), FALO Magazine (Brasil) Desert Heat Magazine USA), Men Addicted (France), Beef (USA), Pride (Italy), Euro Bear (Germany), Kerle (Germany), AUT (Italy), Torazine (Italy); and have been exposed in collective and personal exhibitions (Rome - “Visioni senza filtro”, “Hairy”, “Cibo x Orsi-Food 4 Bears”, Milan – “Portraits ofmodern Gentlemen”, Bologna – “American Beauty”, Bruxelles – “the BEARable lightness of being”, Palermo - “Works”).
GianOrso è un fotografo Italiano, residente a Roma, appassionato e ossessionato dall'Arte Classica, che ha ispirato e influenzato la sua visione, il suo approccio nel ritrarre il corpo umano, in tutte le sue forme, e nella ricerca del suo ideale di bellezza in una gamma variegata di possibilità e sfumature .
Alcune delle sue foto sono state pubblicate in varie riviste riviste estere, specializzate in ritrattistica maschile:
MASCULAR (UK), FALO Magazine (Brasile), Desert Heat Magazine (USA), Men Addicted (France), Beef (USA), Pride (Italy), Euro Bear (Germany), Kerle (Germany), AUT (Italy), Torazine (Italy); Sono state anche esposte a Roma - (Visioni senza filtro, Hairy, Cibo x Orsi-Food 4 Bears), Milano - (Portraits of modern Gentlemen), Bologna - (American Beauty), Bruxelles - (the BEARable lightness of being), Palermo - (Works).
Exhibitions:
- "V E L A R I A" - progetto fotografico per Leica Camera Italia #Romachilometrozero - presso Leica Store Roma - Via Due Macelli 57 dal 23 novembre 2022 al 14 gennaio 2023
- "duemiladodici/duemilasedici" exhibition for the PRIDE month - june 2022 - in Libreria Antigone (Rome)
- "SAME AS YOU - take II" - An on line collective exhibition curated by Igor Zeiger for Beamcollective.net - Summer 2021 -
https://www.beamcollective.net/same-as-you-take-ii - "Meraki" - fanzine (collective) da "Una stanza per sè" (2021) - Un laboratorio di autoritratto curato e diretto da Simona Ghizzoni in collaborazione con SPEX - The Self Portrait Experience -
https://selfportrait-experience.com/workshop-di-simona-ghizzoni/ - "PRIDE by your side" - An on line exhibition of artists from all over the world, organized by FMB Art Gallery Rome (collective) - summer 2021
https://it.fmbartgallery.com/pride-by-your-side-2021 - "Curated" by Social Networks - An exhibition in protest of censorship of Human Body in Social Networks (collective) - summer 2020 - Beamcollective.net -
https://www.beamcollective.net/curated-by-social-media - "A portrait in isolation" (collective on line) - spring 2020 - Mascularstudio.com
- "Falloween /show us your dick" - photos by GianOrso & Pan Eros - november 2016 - Company Club (Rome)
- “Visioni senza filtro (free mind in free body)” (collective) - april 2016 - Quirinetta (Rome).
- "Falloween / show me your dick" - photos by GianOrso & Pan Eros - november 2015 - Company Club (Rome).
- "Hairy Uncensored" (collective) - june2015 - Company Club (Rome).
- "Hairy" (collective) - June 2015 - CaffèOppio (Rome).
- “American Beauty” - November 2009 – Cassero“Heavy Fat Party” (Bologna) during the “Gender Bender”festival.
- “Portraits of Modern Gentlemen” - June 2009 –Loft 21 (Milan).
- “The BEARable lightness of being” - May 2006 –Cinema Nova (Bruxelles) during the “Pink Screen #5 AlternativeGender Film Festival.
- ”“Cibo X Orsi – Food 4 Bears” - September 2002– Bookshop Babele (Rome).
- “Works” - February/March 2002 – Bookshop AltroQuando (Palermo).
Books:
Some of my photos have been featured on these books:
"Noisy Rain Magazine Issue 65"
https://it.blurb.com/b/10864149-noisy-rain-magazine-issue-65
"My Gay Eye issue 19 _ SEX UTOPIA"
"My Gay Eye issue 18 _ OUTDOORS"
https://www.konkursbuch-shop.com/schwules-auge/
"FUR the Love of Hair" by Ron J. Suresha & Scott McGillivray