Pietro Percoco was born in December 1987. He grew up in Italy (Bari) but spent a lot of time living in Venezuela during his childhood.
In 2010 he enrolled in a Forest and Environmental Sciences university programme at the University of Bari, but dropped out of the course after 2 years. In the same year, he shot a photograph of a lightning from a bridge, after spending hours waiting.
During 2012, he participated in a photographic contest, named Leica Talent, through which he got to know the photographer, Alex Majoli, whom ended up inviting Piero to join him at Cesura, a Milan-based collective of photographers.
The year after, he participated in the Leica Photographer Award, and was selected amongst the 50 finalists. In that same year, he also subscribed to Instagram, where immediately got noticed because of his unique perspective on his home region, the south of Italy.
In 2017 he was asked to photograph Milan Fashion Week for Vogue Italy in collaboration with Huawei. He also collaborated with online and print magazines such as Rolling Stone Italia, Repubblica, Der Greif and Monopol.
Summer 2018, he published his first photography book: Prism Interiors. The book was designed and edited entirely by Jason Fulford and published by Skinnerboox. In the same year he was featured by New Yorker Photo who featured his work for 7 days. At the beginning of 2019 he will be exhibited during Photo Wien 2019 by Viennese Gallery OstLicht.
Exhibitions:
November 2014 – Slideluck Selection by Renata Ferri, Bologna
July 2015 – Exhibition at Cinema del Reale, Specchia, South Italy
February 2016 – Group Exhibition at Dear Photography , Hamburg
April 2016 – Exhibition Collective at Gallery SP41 , Treviso
September 2016 – Presentation with The Smart View, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin
February 2017 – Exhibition at Dusseldorf Photo Weekend, Dusseldorf
April 2017 – Presentation with the Smart View ,001 Roma
September 2017 – Photo Vogue Festival, BASE Milano
March 2019 – Photo Wien , OstLicht Gallery, Vienna
May 2019 – Looking On- MAR – Museo- Ravenna
Online/Print Features: C41 Magazine, Rolling Stone Italia, Vogue Italia, The New Yorker, Exibart, Leica Photographer Award, Fotografia Magazine, RAI Cultura, Der Greif, D-Repubblica, Minima&Moralia, Witty Kiwi, Skinnerboox, Urbanautica, L Fritz, Monopol Magazine, Ignant, Drek Magazine, Interview DE , Focus DE, Lomography, Photonews , Il Fotografo, Mit Vergnuegen, British Journal of Photography
Publication : Prism Interiors, 2018
The Rainbow is Underestimated, upcoming 2019
Corporate Clients: Huawei Mobile, Belvedere Vodka, Technogym, Apple
