Biography
Salvatore E. Masala is born in Sassari in the 1948.
His first photography exhibition was held in the 1982 at the Civic Theatre in Sassari. The exhibition theme was “Crafts in Sassari Province”. Afterwards, he attended various collective photography exhibitions, among which the itinerant exhibition in different Italian cities on “Peasant cultures in comparison”, held in the 1988.
In the 70s and 80s his photography studies developed on taking pictures of people life moments at the job places, in their homes, during their recreation time, in their social commitment, as an inborn ethno-anthropologic research.
In the same years, he taught photography (darkroom and shooting techniques) for almost 1200 hours .
In the 1988, two historical photography books had been realized from the exhibition “Peasant cultures in comparison” and the contest “North Sardinian Railways”, for whom Salvatore Masala edited the iconographic part.
In the 2008, he realized the exhibition “Cavalli in corsa” (Running horses) at Sassari municipal building and attended the visual arts collective exhibition “Fabbriche di luce” (Light factories) in Olbia.
In the early 90s he realized an ethnic reportage in Argentina, with particular reference to Patagonia.
He has worked, and currently works, as photography director in various short films.
The main activity of Salvatore Masala is condensed in the 70s and 90s, when he devoted himself with great passion to the documentation of different performances held in Sassari, creating hundreds of shots that permitted, after a careful selection, the mounting of the exhibition “Stage and backstage – 10 years of performances in Sassari”, in the 2011 at the Frumentaria Palace in Sassari, and the publication of the homonymous photo-book.
