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I’ve been in love with photography for more than 30 years.
My name is Pier Giorgio —most people simply call me PG. I was born in Pontecorvo, a small town nestled between Rome and Naples. At 18, I moved to Siena to study Banking & Finance at university. In my suitcase, alongside textbooks, I carried my Olympus OM-2 camera and an early fascination with war reportages.
Life in Siena brought me luck: I met two extraordinary mentors, Fabio Muzzi and Pietro Cinotti. They were not only brilliant photographers and teachers, but also became lifelong travel companions. In the mid-1980s, they founded the legendary ZOOM Agency in Siena — a creative hub where photography met journalism, and where I began to shape my passion into something more professional.
ZOOM was more than an agency; it was a meeting place for some of Italian best photographers. During Siena’s Palio, you could find icons like Francesco Cito and Gianni Giansanti there, exchanging stories and images. Those encounters, and the decision to move from my Olympus system to Nikon, were turning points in my journey.
Today, I live in Frankfurt, where I work in Investment Banking—but my heart continues to beat for photography. Over the years, my freelance work has grown, focusing on social and geopolitical themes, often searching for the human stories hidden behind the wars.
To everyone who has supported me along this journey—thank you. This passion has carried me across decades, and it continues to shape the way I see the world.
My photo-reportages have been published by the Italian Magazine "Il Reportage", FAZ Magazine, FAZ Net, Schweizer Monat and Corriere d'Italia.
I’ve been in love with photography for more than 30 years.
My name is Pier Giorgio —most people simply call me PG. I was born in Pontecorvo, a small town nestled between Rome and Naples. At 18, I moved to Siena to study Banking & Finance at university. In my suitcase, alongside textbooks, I carried my Olympus OM-2 camera and an early fascination with war reportages.
Life in Siena brought me luck: I met two extraordinary mentors, Fabio Muzzi and Pietro Cinotti. They were not only brilliant photographers and teachers, but also became lifelong travel companions. In the mid-1980s, they founded the legendary ZOOM Agency in Siena — a creative hub where photography met journalism, and where I began to shape my passion into something more professional.
ZOOM was more than an agency; it was a meeting place for some of Italian best photographers. During Siena’s Palio, you could find icons like Francesco Cito and Gianni Giansanti there, exchanging stories and images. Those encounters, and the decision to move from my Olympus system to Nikon, were turning points in my journey.
Today, I live in Frankfurt, where I work in Investment Banking—but my heart continues to beat for photography. Over the years, my freelance work has grown, focusing on social and geopolitical themes, often searching for the human stories hidden behind the wars.
To everyone who has supported me along this journey—thank you. This passion has carried me across decades, and it continues to shape the way I see the world.
My photo-reportages have been published by the Italian Magazine "Il Reportage", FAZ Magazine, FAZ Net, Schweizer Monat and Corriere d'Italia.
