Giorgia Fiorio

{{Short description|Italian photographer born 1967}}

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Giorgia Fiorio (born 23 July 1967 in Turin){{Cite web|title=Contact Press Images|url=https://www.contactpressimages.com/photographers/fiorio/fiorio_bio.html|access-date=2021-09-06|website=www.contactpressimages.com}} is a photographer, artist, and essayist from Turin, Italy.{{Cite web|title=Giorgia Fiorio {{!}} World Press Photo|url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/person/detail/1326/giorgia-fiorio|access-date=2021-09-06|website=www.worldpressphoto.org}}

As a teenager, she was a pop singer, and performed at the San Remo Festival.{{Cite book|last=Fiorio|first=Giorgia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3IlFX78swIC|title=Giorgia Fiorio: Men|date=2001|publisher=Te Neues Publishing Group|isbn=978-3-570-19253-5|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Heller|first1=Steven|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mmCDwAAQBAJ&q=%22giorgia+fiorio%22+photographer&pg=PT292|title=The Education of a Photographer|last2=Traub|first2=Charles H.|date=2010-09-21|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-58115-830-4|language=en}} At age twenty, she decided she wanted to be a photographer. She attended the International Center of Photography in New York City.

In 1995, Fiorio won the $10,000 Ernst Haas Prize for her documentary work.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a7Q06aNqsJcC&dq=%22giorgia+fiorio%22+photographer&pg=PA20|title=American Photo|date=August 1996|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1FcgEd0Dz-oC&dq=%22giorgia+fiorio%22&pg=PA8|title=American Photo|date=April 1996|language=en}} In 1997, Fiorio was named Documentary Photographer of the Year by the magazine American Photography.