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Bevilacqua is a photographer and film director born in Palermo, Sicily in 1961. His career has spanned more than twenty years, alternating photography and direction of documentaries and video clips. He started taking pictures in Palermo in the 1980s, originally focusing on societal and anthropological photographic studies. He decided to move to Paris and then Milan where he took photography courses at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED).
He then started working with advertising and public relations agencies, creating photography spreads, advertising campaigns, videos and films for major Italian and international companies. He started working with the Marka agency in 1995. In 1998, he and Enrico Grisanti founded XTV Productions, a production company specialized in photography and video services for advertising and corporate communications. The next year he developed one of the first Italian web TV channels, XTV Webchannel.
A few highlights of his career include Quotidiani (Palermo 1983), Giardini Immaginari (Palermo 1984) and Indian Stills (Milan 2007), and his participation in group shows including Nuovi Soggetti a Rischio (Siracusa 1985), Obiettivo Soggettivo -- Fotocontaminazioni sull'arte africana (Milan 1994) and A Different Robin Hood (Turin 2000).
He has directed numerous pieces including, in collaboration with Francesco Di Loreto, Little Red Robin Hood -- a biographic documentary about Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine's singer and drummer, with Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera and Nick Mason -- Moira Orfei Amore e Fiori, a colorful Pop depiction of the queen of circus, and numerous video clips for artists such as Cristina Donà, Marco Parente and Antonella Ruggiero.
Some of his last work include the book In italia, a black and white photographic journey through eleven italian towns for Antonveneta Bank and published by Federico Motta Editore with a Mario Botta text and a Milano Expo 2015 nomination video in co-operation with the Milan communication agency al Village.
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