Biografia
Salvatore Pipia nasce a Bagheria nel 1966
Attualmente lavora come libero professionista grafico ed esperto della comunicazione visiva, proponendo laboratori ed eventi culturali legati alla tematica della fotografia e dell'immagine. E' docente di Fotografia e Grafica Digitale nei corsi di formazione professionale che tiene ai detenuti della casa circondariale Ucciardone di Palermo, per conto dell'associazione Euro. Ha curato la realizzazione di diversi progetti editoriali legati alla presentazione di mostre, libri ed eventi di divulgazione culturale e scientifica.
Salvatore Pipia was born at Bagheria (Palermo, Italy) in 1966.
In the course of 1987, while studying Architecture, he gets interested in photography and attends one of the courses given in Palermo by the photographer Letizia Battaglia, prize W. Eugène Smith 1985.
In 1988 he joins together with other Sicilian photographers to give birth to the photographic cooperative ASADIN, with the aim of organising and managing a photographic archive on Sicily and of promoting new emerging photographers
With the association ARCIRAGAZZI he specialises in the field of training/encouraging of difficult youths in the hinterland of Palermo and realises many projects of education at the image, performed in the street, in associations' spaces and in the schools of the difficult districts of Palermo.
In 1995 he goes, on behalf of the NGO CISS (South-South International Cooperation) in GUATEMALA, to give a training course on visual communication, directed to some Maya populations of the Guatemalan Andes uplands.
Between 1997 and 1998 he works in MOZAMBIQUE, on behalf of ARCS (Arci Culture and Development) of Rome, as trainer/educator of street-children in the open centres of the "Mozambique Red Cross" and to realise a video and an exhibition on the street-children.
In 2003 he specialises as psycho-pedagogical operator with an intensive apprenticeship within the U.S.S.M. (Office for Social Services to Minors), section of the Minors Court of the Malaspina Prison, Palermo, with which it continues to having a constant professional contact.
He has managed the realisation of different publishing projects linked to the presentation of exhibitions, books and events of cultural and scientific divulgation.
He maintains many collaborations with NGO and other not-for profit associations, that give him the opportunity for travelling throughout the world and of keeping on with his work of documentation and photographic research about the conditions of the Developing Countries.
In the last years it has been engaged in a photographic search on the places of the bagherese baroque, being involved associations and institutions in the putting in work of some plans of cultural spreading it dedicates to you to.
It collaborates with photographic agency Realy Easy Star of Turin, and currently it covers the assignment of responsible of the iconografica search of the review "Sottotraccia" (Navarra editore, Marsala).
Currently he is teaching of photograph and communication to the “Ucciardone” prison of Palermo.
Salvatore Pipia's production has been exhibited in Brazil, Guatemala, Mozambique, Canada, United Arab Emirates and Italy.


