Virginio Favale

Virginio Favale is an Italian photographer born in Velletri, Rome in 1969.
His education and training took place between Rome and Milan where Virginio collaborated with the largest international advertising agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, TBWA, Young & Rubicam, McCann Erickson, Dentsu and many others.
He currently lives between Rome and Tokyo where he moved in 2013. Since the early 90’s, Virginio has begun researching the pace of life in large cities. London, Tokyo and New York took much of his attention. Blurring, double exposure and then, with the advent of digital, kaleidoscopes are the most used techniques by Virginio, which are able to tell the best a multifaceted, eclectic vision always linked by a common thread: telling the life, speed, feelings that become, all together, collective consciousness. In Tokyo Virginio found his muse, his inspiration. Tokyo, the largest city in the world, is like a funfair for a street photographer like him who loves walking and cycling and, above all, spend days photographing. Icons such as taxis, signs, famous sites become the subjects of his early works. Then the focus shifts to people, loneliness and in particular to the building facades that become a real obsession. It is like it is pos...

Virginio graduated in photography in 1990 at – Istituto di Stato per la Cinematografia e TV (State Institute for Cinematography & TV) “Roberto Rossellini” in Rome

Since 1995 Virginio has held 15 solo shows, exhibited in museums and galleries
Here are some of them:
2002 - publication of the book “Carnevale di Venezia” edited by Artmediapress in London, distributed worldwide, with the related exhibition that took place at Bacchus and Daguerre in Rome, Italy.
2003 - Chiostro del Bramante, Rome - Italy "Japad” a solo exhibition for the official presentation of Dentsu agency, the largest advertising agency in the world.
2004 – Photograph sets for Renault Clio campaign and Clio Street project which took place in Naples, Rome and Milan.
2015 – participation to Milan Photography Festival with the solo exhibition "Alone", at Spazio Farini gallery, during the Expo in Milan.
2016 - Vite Mia Project. Solo exhibition for Enoitalia, Verona, Italy.
2019 – “No Hunger Project” a solo exhibition in Artrooms Fair, an international fair of contemporary art in Rome.
2021 - Tokyo 365 Project, Exhibition at PAN, Palazzo Arte Napoli, Museum.
Currently Virginio is working at Tokyo 365 Project. A project aiming to tell the twenty-one years relationship between him and Japan by the photographs he made during this time. Tokyo 365 will end with a big exhibition in a museum.
His works are in numerous private...