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Riccardo Zipoli
Photographer
Italy
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I was born in Prato (Italy) in 1952.
Since graduating in Persian language and literature from the University of Venice in 1975, I have been teaching those subjects at the same university. I was director of the Department of Eurasian Studies at Venice University from 1990 until 1996 and from 1999 until 2005. I have published many articles and books about classical and contemporary Persian poetry, also working in the field of translation (my translations into Italian include two books of poems by the Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami: Con il vento, Milan, 2001; Un lupo in agguato, Turin, 2003).
Currently I am working on questions of stylistics and rhetoric with a special focus on Persian rhyme and satirical and obscene verse. At the same time as my university activities, I have carried out intense photographic activities. My first one-man show of photographs was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in October 1976. A year later I showed my works at the 14th Sćo Paulo Contemporary Art Biennial, Brazil, and at the Diaframma gallery, Milan.
In 1978 I graduated with a diploma in film-making and director of photography from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome. Since then, I have held exhibitions in various Italian cities (Milan, Venice, Bologna, Prato, Bolzano, Montemurlo, Quarrata, Borbiago, Bari). In May 2005, I organized an exhibition at the Silk Road gallery in Tehran. My explorations of the Persian landscape have been featured in magazines (Atlante, XVI, 130, 1975, pp.40-49; Il Diaframma-Fotografia Italiana, 219, 1976, pp.27-34), miscellanies (Oltre la soglia: Iran, cultura, arte, storia, Venice, 2005, pp.146-153), and books (Golsciane raz, Milan, 1976; Tā Nākojā/Verso Nondove, Tehran, 1984; Un giardino nella voce, Florence, 1995; Tā shaqāyeq hast/While poppies bloom, Tehran, 2005; Solitudini Persiane, Bari, 2006).
Although so far my published photographs have concentrated on the Persian landscape, I have actually taken photographs in over thirty countries (books of photographs taken outside Iran are Il libro di Lenin, Venice, 1992 and Venezia alle finestre, Venice, 2006) and I have a rich archive of images of them. I now plan to publish the most significant photographs from my collection on my site.
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