Giacomo Oteri

He was brought up in different countries, and was exposed to many cultures namely, Syrian, French, Australian, German, and now Korean.
Nationality: Italian, Australian. Born in Italy
He was an instructor in fine art photography at Seoul National University, Hanyang University, Kookmin University, and Sangmyung University in Seoul. He has been a member for an international jury for photography in Korea. My first interest in photography was about the approach of Henry Cartier- Bresson. The decisive moment within an everlasting observation of the living environment in our modern cities: Street photography on steroids. Attending art school somehow forced me to define what photography was/is about: An egregious appropriation activity of somebody else’s design. One of the greatest limitations of photography is not its mechanical nature of creating an image, but the fact that a photographer does not create anything, it grabs, selects, frames, something already existing in the world at large, and makes it his own with copyright to boot. I’m not trying to denigrate the act of photographing anything, but in absolute terms, we are living in an environment which can be loosely labeled as a designer’s product. Within these considerations I find...

Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts major in photography, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney Australia 1980-83
Scholarships: Post-graduate studies Sydney College of the Arts 1983-85 Sydney Australia

EXHIBITIONS
2007 Posco Art Gallery, Posco Head office (solo) Pohang
Posco Art Museum, Posco Center (solo) Seoul
Il Diaframma Lattuada, Milan
2006 Seoul National University, College of Fine Arts S&D Hall (solo) Seoul
2000 Il Diaframma Lattuada gallery ( solo ) Milan
1998 T.L.G. Treuhand Bank ( solo ) Potsdam , Berlin
1994 Fragile Gesellschaft gallery ( solo ) Berlin
Inventionen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1991 Centre Culturel Français (with Christina Kubisch), Unter den Linden, Berlin
1989 Ganderkesee Künstverein (with Christina Kubisch), Bremen
1987 Dècalage gallery, Milan
1984 Roslyn Oxley9 gallery, (with Anthony Howell) Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian Centre for photography, Sydney
1983 Australian Centre for photography ( solo ) Sydney
Images gallery, (solo) Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney