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“His photographs reveal a penetrating eye and soul that has the ability to choose the essentials and surprisingly catch every human expression. He had covered the world in search of that which he wanted not that that was ordinary or which the public awaited. Like every true artist, the technique accompanies the inspiration and the changes within. There is never rhetoric, nor common place in his images. His books are to be given as gifts, to conserve, for thumbing through in the hour in which one wants to live intensely absorbed in the mysteries of the mechanical eye, which makes us see that in which the natural eye can not make out or perceive.”

Giuseppe Prezzolini

Fulvio Roiter is an important and highly respected photographer of international fame. From the end of the 1950's, when his first photographic book was printed, he caught the attention of several European editors.
He is represented in most all of the Dictionaries of Photography, not only in Italy. Fifty years ago, he came out with his first black and white photographic book on Venice, published by “La Guilde du Livre” in Losanna. This was also the first photographic book by an Italian artist. Throughout his years, he has published around seventy volumes, each with growing applause for his continual good quality images and printing. From his association with the artistic group “La Gondola di Venezia”, to the first publication of his portfolio in the prestigious Swiss magazine “Camera” in 1954, five years pass. His Sicilian reportage exposed the world to better understanding the work of Roiter. Two years afterwards, he won the most prestigious awards given to a photographer: the Nadar award with his work, “Ombrie Terre de Saint Francois.” And, this was the beginning of an important career for the man, the artist, and Italian photography. He was given photographic jobs and the opportunity to travel throughout the world. France, Spain, Belguim, then, Brazil, Mexico, Lebanon, Morocco, Iraq. Trips that produced famous books. In particular, the many books on Venice among which “Being Venice” earned much success and remains one of the most well sold photographic books in the world. Books that as Giuseppe Prezzolini notes, “for giving as gifts, for conserving, for thumbing through in the hour in which one wants to live intensely absorbed in the mysteries of the mechanical eye, which reveals that which the natural eye can not make out or perceive.”
His photos are testimonies of his character: a brilliant man, and a bit bad-tempered, a lover of beauty and of life. And for exactly this, he occupies himself to represent life in the way, in which he lives and sees through his viewfinder. Or perhaps, how he would like to see it.

Quotes about Fulvio Roiter:

Alberto Moravia

“Fulvio Roiter is a photographer that justifies my idea that the more beautiful the photo, the more mysterious the photo. Roiter's photographs are often very beautiful. And, moreover, mysterious. Naturally, this does not hold to be true for all the photos and all photographers. For example, the instantaneous has always something to say, that makes one think …..of death. The immortal is insignificant,  death is, instead, that which has an inevitable significance related to time. It is that which has happened. The merit of a successful photographer like Roiter is to give to us that which is.”

Idro Montanelli

“I believe that this monstrous, animalistic capacity of intellectual, visual concentration makes Roiter number one in the world of photography. And I say this without hesitation. It is possible that there are ones more technically refined, ones more well studied in framing, in angles, in light, in shadow, in twilight, and in gloom. But, no one knows  how to catch like him, above all things, a sense of existing things.”

AWARDS AND HONORS

Fulvio Roiter received in Paris the Nadar Award for the Best Photographic Imagery Book of the year 1956, Ombrie Terre de Saint Francois.

Cangrande Award for his lifetime career in Photography (Verona, 1988)

Maschera d'Argento Award for photography (Campione D'Italia, 1990)

The International Award to the “Arles photographic weeks" for the book “Being Venice" (Arles, 1978)

L'Osella d'Oro, Rotary Club of Venice (Venice, 1995)

Masi Award “Valori Veneti" (Verona, 2003)