ITALY

Born in Dolo (Venezia) in 1956, Enrico Bossan started his professional career as a photographer at the age of 23, after studying engineering at the University of Padova, where he actually lives.

Attracted by color photography since the beginning, he has published his photographs in several magazines like Epoca, Sette, Marie Claire, Time and Independent.

In 1987 he was awarded the Kodak Prize for Professional Photographers. His pictures have been exhibited at the Houston Photofest, in Amsterdam, Turin (during the Biennale), Tokyo, Rome, Milan and Thessaloniki where he had a personal exhibition in March of 1996.

Among his main publications: From Peking to Paris (Fabbri 1986) a travel book following the path of an old Italian car from Asia to Europe, and Exit (Peliti 1992) a book in cooperation with the photographer Roberto Koch, dealing with the contemporary United States.

Bossan has been working for the last year on a book project on the theme of health - bringing his camera inside hospitals to document the life of patients living with sufference in a very deep and emotional way.