who i am

Born in Cadelbosco di Sopra (Reggio Emilia) – ITALY.
He has been photographing since 1967, when his friend Clinio, returning from a trip to Russia, gave him a Lubitel camera. He has been involved in commercial activities for several years, thanks to which he has travelled through the most diverse economic and cultural situations.
His constant presence in South America and Spain, his meeting in 1997 in Buenos Aires with Horacio Ferrer and Hector Negro (writers, poets and members of the Tango Academy), and Paco Lira in Seville in 1999, have fuelled his photographic style which, in all his works, is characterised by study and knowledge of the subject matter, and by the rigour of the composition, realised with poetic attention and expressive sincerity.
Since 2006 he has lived and worked in Barcelona

Personal exhibitions

1998 (Reggio Emilia) Libreria all’Arco “Nostalgia, passion, magic…Tango”.

2000 (Reggio Emilia) Caffè Mazzoli “Nostalgia, passion, magic…Tango”.

2001 (Reggio Emilia) Gallery 8.75 artecontemporanea “…paseo através del silencio…”

2002 (Bibbiena,Arezzo) Palazzo Ferri “Nostalgia, passion, magic…Tango”.

2002 (Parma) Libreria Fiaccadori “Nostalgia, passion, magic…Tango”.

2002 (Castelnovo Ne’Monti/RE) – Assessorato Cultura/Caffè Pane e Cioccolata “Nostalgia, passion, magic…Tango”.

2002 (Parma) ALPHACENTAURI – Department of Culture of the Municipality of Parma “Nostalgia, passion, magic…Tango”.

2003 (Bibbiena,Arezzo) Palazzo Ferri “Habana Vieja”.

2003 (Parma) Fiaccadori Bookshop “Habana Vieja”.

2003 (Terni) Placebo – Illy caffè – Bookshop, Photographic Gallery “Nostalgia, passion, magic… Tango”.

2004 (Reggio Emilia) Teatro Re Giò – Teatri di Re/Assessorato Cultura “Nostalgia, passion, magic…Tango”.

2004 (Reggio Emilia) Salvioli Cafè “Flamenco”.

2004 (San Polo D’Enza,Reggio Emilia) Clock Tower – Department of Culture “I Ponti”.

2005 (Modena) Caffè dell’Orologio “Nostalgia, passion, magic…Tango”

2017 (Barcelona) Cultural Institute CASA DELI ITALIANS OF BARCELONA “Buenos Aires – Tango”

2017 (Barcelona) Consulado General y Centro de Promoćion de la REPUBLICA ARGENTINA de BARCELONA “Buenos Aires – Tango”

2026 (Reggio Emilia) Circuito Off – Fotografia Europea 2026 // XXI Edizione – “Buenos Aires – Tango”

Awarded works:

In 2002: 24th City of Bibbiena Trophy “Nostalgia, passion, magic…TANGO”.

In 2003: 25th City of Bibbiena Trophy “Habana Vieja”.

Contacts

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Cristina Paglionico

“When I met Iller Bedogni I felt that gust of wind from his caminada, I felt that his Tango, as only an exile can seek, had taken him inside an ancient world that enveloped him, bringing him closer to people and then to the gestures and motions of an expressive possibility that is symbiosis of soul and body.”

Reporter 2000

“The reason that drives Bedogni is only one: to discover in a city like Buenos Aires through his attentive eye the real people who feel this music viscerally.”

Iller Bedogni

“It must be because I was born in a house by the side of a bridge and when I was a child from that bridge I used to watch the water with the reflections of the sky, shining, roaring, running free feeding my imagination and my wandering spirit.”