New FIAP Event at IFSAK
Masterclass
Name of the Masterclass: Long-Term Projects
Birth, Development, and Conclusion
Photography Artist: Mr. Giampiero Assumma
Date: Saturday, March 28th, 2026
Duration of Masterclass: 2 Hours / 14:30 – 16:30
In this masterclass, organized by the İFSAK International Relations Unit, we hosted Italian photographerGiampiero Assumma.
Giampiero Assumma was with us at the masterclass, which was organized with the contributions of the Italian Cultural Center and Com.It.Es Istanbul.
About Masterclass
In this Masterclass on long-term photographic projects, Italian photographer Giampiero Assummaexplained how projects originate, develop over time, and reach completion.
Through projects ranging from mental hospitals for ex-convicts to the homeless, from the last swordfish fishermen in Southern Italy to the world of bodybuilding, Assumma shared both the creative and practical processes of long-term photographic production.
Photographic projects sometimes begin with a single encounter, and sometimes they take shape through years of observation and feedback. This masterclass focused on the process from the birth to the completion of a photographic project.
Artist Biography
Giampiero Assumma (Naples, 1969) is an Italian photographer and multimedia artist whose work explores the relationship between human beings and their physical, psychological, and social limits. He began his photographic career in the 1990s, initially focusing on urban landscapes and post-industrial transformations. His early project Tempo, Luogo, Metallo (Time, Place, Metal) documented the changing industrial site of Italsider in Bagnoli, Naples, marking the beginning of his long-term engagement with space, memory, and transformation. Over the years, Assumma’s practice has evolved toward an existential investigation of human experience. Through long-term projects, he examines themes such as faith, mental illness, homelessness, and the body as a site of endurance and resistance. His approach moves beyond documentary description; light becomes a narrative and symbolic element, shaping meaning and revealing invisible tensions within everyday life. Among his major projects are Xiphias, an anthropological narrative on swordfish fishermen in the Strait of Messina; Tracce di Luce, documenting pilgrimages to Lourdes; The Lower World, focused on Italy’s last forensic psychiatric hospitals; Bodybuilders, an exploration of physical limits; and This Is Not My Bed, a series on homelessness in Budapest, awarded First Prize in the Social Documentary category at the Hungarian Press Photo Contest. Since 2005, Assumma has lived and worked between Paris, Berlin, and Budapest, settling in Moscow in 2019. His recent work centers on urban microcosms and street photography, reinterpreting everyday city life through a reflective and human-centered lens.