In 1986, he moved to Italy, near Rome, where he now resides. Bollinger has exhibited his work in Europe and the USA and has been published in the B&W Magazine and Zoom. He has been awarded the “Prix Kodak de la critique photographique”, Paris, in 1982 and the First price Namias, Milan in 1998. Bollinger has numerous public and private collections in Europe and the USA and his work is represented by galleries in Europe and the USA. In 2010, he opened his own gallery (Orcia fine art photography) in Tuscany, near Siena.