GM Sacco is a university professor of computer science, who resigned to devote himself full-time to his artistic interests. He has been photographing for a long time, first on film, then digitally and finally digitally and on large format film. His interest for art is not limited to photography and he was the publisher of an acclaimed CD-ROM series on painters of the Italian Renaissance, which included the first hypertextual edition of Vasari’s Lives of Artists.
He likes to think of himself as an image peddler rather than a photographer and believes that painters, from Duccio to contemporaries, have a significant influence in his work.
His works span from architecture, to abandoned decaying buildings (factories primarily), to nudes, to still life. He is especially concerned by the impermanence of things and, like Webster, is “much possessed by death”. At the same time, his works investigate metaphysics, what exists beyond our limited experience and could tame the horror of death.
In the last ten years he has won more than 90 awards in the most important international competitions, such as IPA – International Photo Awards, Tokyo Foto Awards, Fine Art Photo Awards, PX3 – Prix de la Photographie Paris. He also appeared in more than ten exhibitions in places such as Rome, Milan, Turin, Venice and Tokyo. In 2023, he published the book "Silent Theaters" with Kehrer Verlag
AWARDS
International Photography Awards: 2015, 2016 (3), 2018 (2), 2019 (3), 2020 (3), 2021 (3), 2022 (4), 2023 (4), 2024, 2025 (2)
Moscow International Foto Awards: 2016, 2017, 2020 (2)
Budapest International Foto Awards: 2023, 2024, 2025
Tokyo International Foto Awards: 2017, 2018, 2020 (3), 2022 (3), 2024 (2 + 1st place in Book), 2025 (3 + 1st Place in Books)
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris: 2017, 2020 (2), 2021 (3), 2022 (3), 2023 (2), 2024 (2), 2025 (3)
Fine Art Photography Awards: 2017, 2018 (2), 2019, 2020, 2021(2), 2024 (3), 2025 (2), 2026
ND Awards: 2016, 2018, 2020 (2), 2021(2), 2022, 2024 (2), 2025 (2)
Monochrome Awards: 2017, 2018 (2), 2019 (2), 2020, 2022(2), 2024
Monovision Awards: 2020, 2022 (3), 2023 (2), 2024, 2025
Analog Sparks: 2023 (2), 2024, 2025
Architecture Master Prize: 2021, 2022 (2 + Best of Best), 2023 (1 + Best of Best), 2024
Arte Laguna Prize: 2024 (2)
refocus awards: 2023, 2024
Siena Creative Awards, 2021, 2022
Urban Awards: 2021 (finalist), 2023 (Civic Museum prize)
EXHIBITIONS
Italy, China, France, Great Britain, Japan, Switzerland, USA
MUSEUMS
Memento mori in the permanent collection of Polo museale di Trieste
BOOKS
Silent Theaters, Kehrer Verlag, 2023
2024 TIFA 1st place in Books
2024 IPA 3rd Place in Book/Fine Art
2024 PX3 Silver in Book/Documentary
Metafisica Concreta/Concrete Metaphysics
2025 TIFA, 1st place in Book
2025 PX3, Gold in Book/Fine Art
2025 BIFA, Silver in Book/Fine Art
