Giuseppe Saitta was born in Rome, Italy, 6 December l941. He moved with his family to the United States in the late forties, settling in New York City. In 1960 he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force where he received extensive training in broadcast radio, television and print journalism, and newsreel production. He was assigned to bases in Texas, Michigan, Germany, England and finally North Africa, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Broadcast News Service.

Receiving an honorable separation from the Air force, he returned to Manhattan where he did undergraduate work at New York University and Columbia University in the mid to late sixties. In New York City, he worked first in book publishing and later in photojournalism and advertising. In 1969 he accepted an assignment from Columbia University to serve as science photographer for an expedition aboard the Gosport Class, Robert D. Conrad Oceanographic Research Ship to the Sulu Sea, the Sea of Japan and the Marianas Trench in the Pacific. Upon his return to New York in the same year, he married Susan Kenney and moved with her to San Francisco in 1970.

Their daughter, Jennifer, and son, Jordan, were born in 1974 and 1979 respectively. In 1976 he received a BA in filmmaking, with honors, from San Francisco State University. In the mid seventies Mr. Saitta founded Saitta, Stills & Film, a multimedia production company serving the commercial print, film and video industry. After divorcing, he dissolved his first company and engaged in extensive world travel in the eighties. In the early nineties, Mr. Saitta co-founded Spectrum Image in Palo Alto, California. In the mid nineties he completed graduate courses in communications, and classical European history at Stanford University.

In addition to general business management and operations, he is skilled in architectural design, multimedia production, graphic design, fine art, and both commercial and creative writing. He is at home in a wide spectrum of creative expression including poetry; film/video script writing; documentary film and video production; director of photography; director of lighting; mise-en-scne; still photography from fine art gallery prints to commercial advertising in print; and finally to abstract expressionist original art.

In 1995 he moved to Boise, Idaho, where his art has been on exhibit at the Gallos Art Gallery, the So-Ho and Flying Cafes and Prints Plus Fine Art Prints Gallery. He has also managed his own gallery, Galleria Saitta above Piazza di Vino in Boise. View abstract paintings on this gallery:

Mr. Saitta is co-author of SURVIVING IN TWO WORLDS, a book of portraits and interviews of Native Americans. This is a breakthrough work of contemporary and historical documentation of Indian life in America. Published in the spring of 1997 by The University of Texas Press at Austin, this book was rapidly adopted as a standard text for university level Native American Studies. Giuseppe Saitta is founder and executive director of the Boise Institute of Irenology, A local organization dedicated to the study of peace. Currently working as CEO of Alpha Image, an Independent Film, Video, Photography, and Design House; Mr. Saitta lives in Boise, and continues to work as DP on a feature length film on Native Americans now being shot in Europe, and the U.S.

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