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  • Adriano Mercurio ↓
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  • Adriano Zanni ↓
    Photographer, sound artist and field recordist, has published music and electroacoustic pieces for different European record labels and has often performed in public since the beginning of his career. He has made various photographic publications, collaborates with musical and local information magazines in his area by exploring the territories through photography.
  • Alain Carayol ↓
    It is among men that Alain Carayol observes the world and human beings. By looking at them, he seeks to bring to us a vision of the planet between testimony of lived situations and vision distanced or amused.
  • Alessandro Didoni ↓
    Alessandro Didoni was born in 1977 in the province of Milan. He began studying photography at the IED after high school, fascinated by Richard Avedon and the expressive power of this language. He later became a studio assistant in Milan and for some years he worked as a wedding photographer in Sardinia. After that experience, he dedicated himself exclusively to erotic photography and reportage.
  • Alessandro Digaetano ↓
    Alessandro Digaetano is a photojournalist and he has had work published in the major Italian and leading international magazines. Professional photographer since 2001.
  • Alessandro Formenti ↓
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  • Alessandro Trapezio ↓
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  • Alexander Chekmenev ↓
    Alexander Chekmenev was born in Luhansk, the city located in Eastern Ukraine, Donbass. Alexander started his career as a photographer in a small photo studio in his home town. On the free of work time he photographed people on the streets and homes, who were effected the most by economical crisis after Soviet Union collapse. His work give an intimate and unique insider view on transition of coal mining region in 90-s in Eastern Ukraine. He moved to Kyiv in 1997, where he works as photojournalist.
  • Alfredo D’Amato ↓
    Alfredo D'Amato (Italian B. 1977) studied Art, Media and Design at the London College of Printing. He later graduated with a degree in Documentary Photography from the University of Wales, Newport, UK. He has mainly worked on long-term projects focusing on both, Western and Eastern Europe, Africa and South America, with a particular interest in Portuguese speaking countries, focusing on the interrelationships between African origins and western influences. Alfredo has had his work published in many international newspapers and magazines and has worked with UNHCR, UNICEF and many other NGOs in Europe and further afield. Alfredo won the prestigious Observer Hodge Award and received the first prize in photojournalism at the One Media awards as well as UNICEF Photo of the year in 2005, the same year he was also selected for the World Press Photo Masterclass and was granted the Marco Pesaresi scholarship in Italy. ‘Cocalari’ (Postcart Editions), is Alfredo’s first photographic monograph, published in 2010. He is currently working on a new book project about lusophone countries in Africa and Brazil. Alfredo’s work is part of the permanent collection at George Eastman House Museum in Rochester, New York State.
  • Alfredo Ramos Fdernández ↓
    Alfredo Ramos Fernández was born in 1964 in Havana. He lives and works in Berlin. He earned a Geography graduate degree and worked for a time as a researcher at the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. From 1993 to 2001, he worked with theater groups, but in 2001 he devoted himself entirely to his photographic work.
  • Andrea Angelino Catella ↓
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  • Andrei Loginov ↓
    Berlin-based artist Andrei Loginov was born in Belarus. He attended the art lyceum in Minsk and from 1998, the art academy in Düsseldorf, where he became a Master in 2004.
  • Andrii Dostliev ↓
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  • Angelo Del Negro ↓
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  • Ann-Christine Woehrl ↓
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  • Antonio Cavicchioni ↓
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  • Antonio Palumbo ↓
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  • Arai Moleri ↓
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  • Arturo Russo ↓
    Arturo Russo is a photographer born in Messina (Sicily), mostly working on long term personal projects. In Messina he runs photography workshops for children, adults and teenagers in public schools and social institutions.
  • Attilio Solzi ↓
    Attilio Solzi (1962, Soresina) is an artist who works with photography, video, artist’s books, and collages. His approach to photography is conceptual in nature, yet always rooted in social and everyday contexts, exploring the interpretation of reality and the contemporary world. The primary focus of his work is the image of the body and its representation. Solzi has exhibited in numerous galleries and foundations; among his solo exhibitions are those at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Rome Quadriennale, Guido Costa Projects, and the Antonio Marras Gallery, among others.
  • Bogdan Gulyay ↓
    Lives in Kyiv, Ukraine. He has been practicing art photography since 2010. Member of the Ukrainian Photography Alternative and the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers.
  • Boris Mikhailov ↓
    Known for his groundbreaking photographic practice which combines his interest in cinema, documentary, performance, and writing, Mikhailov has been an inventive, tender but uncompromising witness to the changing fate of his native Ukraine and the consequent experiences of war and displacement.
  • Bruce Gilden ↓
    An iconic street photographer with a unique style, Bruce Gilden was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946. He first went to Penn State University but he found his sociology courses too boring for his temperament and he quit college. Gilden briefly toyed with the idea of being an actor but in 1967, he decided to buy a camera and to become a photographer. Although he did attend some evening classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Bruce Gilden is to be considered substantially a self-taught photographer.
  • Callum Royle ↓
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  • Camilla Biella ↓
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  • Camilla Calato ↓
    Calato was born in Sondrio in 1996, but she currently lives and works in Naples, a city that has profoundly shaped her worldview. She hold a three-year degree in Painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where she developed a strong foundation in visual arts. However, photography has always been her preferred medium of expression. This passion led Calato to pursue a two-year course at the Mohole School in Milan, where she refined her photographic techniques and vision.
  • Camille Laura Villet ↓
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  • Claudia Lauria ↓
    Claudia Lauria is a visual artist born in Palermo who explores photography as a living material, skin and film, memory and gesture. Self-taught since the age of 12, she made the camera her first instrument of introspection, exploring light as a language and the composition of images as a writing of the soul.
  • Conor Rollins ↓
    Conor Rollins is a British Photographer & Filmmaker based in London.His practice lies between documentary, diary-based and experimental work. Capturing a balance of intimate and humorous images of everyday life that heighten the spirit of a place, not only in terms of what it looks like but also how it feels.
  • Cristina Eléni Kontoglou ↓
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  • Dean Snodgrass ↓
    Dean Snodgrass is an Oakland-based Photographer, Cinematographer and Camera Assistant. As a 1st AC Dean has over 10 years experience working in the San Francisco Bay Area on feature films, documentaries and commercials.
  • Dmytro Kupriyan ↓
    Born 24th of september 1982 in Kyiv. He worked as a photojournalist at UIIAN. He starts to work on the topic of tortures and for three years he has been doing a project about tortures in ukrainian police (project “TORTURED”) then he shifts to topic of violence in wide meaning of it making a projects about war in Ukraine
  • Domenico Camarda ↓
    Domenico Camarda studied communications at the University of Bologna and photography and visual design at Milan’s NABA – New Academy of Arts. In autumn 2014,he moved to Lisbon where he began to work for the publisher Pierre Von Kleist Editions and the Pedro Alfacinha gallery. This experience gave him the chance to develop his interest in author photography and art publishing.
  • Dora Kontha ↓
    Dora Kontha is a photographic artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work focuses on inner and outer landscapes involving various analogue processes and experimental techniques. While investigating the artistic and technical possibilities of film photography, her photographs evolve towards inner journeys, the visual translation of emotions and abstract representation of actual places. Dora’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries and featured in international publications.
  • Eleonora Orlando ↓
    Eleonora Orlando was born in Palermo, Italy in 1973. She is a freelance photographer.
  • Elise Wouters ↓
    Elise Wouters is a Belgian photographer based in between London and Greece. Her work explores longing, solitude and sensuality.
  • Emanuele Mancuso ↓
    Emanuele Mancuso is a photographer based in Pozzuoli, in the province of Naples. Emanuele began his practice at the age of 17, self-taught. Following his passion, he enrolled in the Photography, Cinema, and Television course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.
  • Emanuele Savasta ↓
    Emanuele Savasta (1984, Syracuse) discovered his passion for art and creativity at a young age. His journey into photography began while working on a poetry book, where he explored the interplay between words and images, sparking his fascination with this visual language.
  • Eva & Hans ↓
    We have lived in Hamburg for many years. One of the most interesting parts of our work as tax consultants was the intensive contact with people. When we discovered our passion for photography in the middle of our lives, it was clear that people should be at the center of our photographic work. So we set off with our cameras to discover new worlds.
  • Fábio Miguel Roque ↓
    Fábio Miguel Roque (1985) photographer, and visual artist. Born in Lisbon and currently based in Sintra, Portugal. In his work we can notice a clear duality between documentary photography and also intimate and personal projects.
  • Fabio Solfanelli ↓
    Fabio was born in 1960 when there was a lot of excitement around. He drank milk and silver halide, and it is not clear if it was good. In 1979 he obtained a Diploma from the Roberto Rossellini State Institute of Cinematography in Rome, where his passion for film editing was added to his vocation for photography; he became video editor in Rai - Italian Television from 1984 until 2004.
  • Fabrizio Strada ↓
    My name is Fabrizio Strada, I was born in Milan in 1978. I started taking photographs because I didn’t know how to draw. That’s how it all began— almost by chance—and I haven’t stopped since. Photography became my way of observing, understanding, bringing order to chaos. At first, I was mainly interested in the human condition: its contradictions, its fragility, its decay. Then I began to push further, toward a more artistic and experimental photography, tied to the everyday, to the unpredictability of the moment, to doubt.
  • Federico Arcangeli ↓
    Federico Arcangeli was born in Rimini in 1983 where he works as a nurse in the intensive therapy department. He got closer to photography at the age of 30, when he discovered his dad’s old Pentax Me Super and was struck by it. After a while he built his own darkroom where he develops and prints his photos him-self. Nevertheless, Federico likes spending his time on the street, photographing what crosses his path.
  • Federico Borselli ↓
    Federico Borselli, born in Maremma in 1974, has spent his life immersed in images and pictures. Having graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, until 2005 he alternated painting with drawing and photography, and then devoted himself entirely to the later. Taking pictures is his way of living in the open air, engaging in long urban and country walks.
  • Federico Pacini ↓
    Federico Pacini (Siena, 1977). His work has focused on local landscape. Distraction and identity research are characteristics of his language. His photographs are the profound expression of his territorial origin. He earned a degree in Political Science at the University of Siena, 2002 with the thesis “From Dachau to Auschwitz: Nazi policy developments in the management of concentration camps”. His photographs are found in public and private permanent collections: Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi. Research Center and Archive Photography, CRAF, Lestans. Alinari National Museum of Photography, Florence. National Cinema Museum of Turin. Collection Monte dei Paschi di Siena Bank. Fototeca Ando Gilardi.
  • Fedir Monastyrenko ↓
    I was born and raised in the city of Sumy, Ukraine. It is a provincial city thirty kilometers from the border with russia in the east of Ukraine. I was born into a creative family, my father is a photographer and writer, my mother is an artist and musician. I started taking photos at the age of 10.
  • Fernando Escarcega ↓
    Biography not yet available.
  • Fernando Viscasilla ↓
    "Fernando Viscasillas is a Spanish visual artist and teacher of Design with a surname originating from the Italian city of Trieste, “WISCAGLIA”. He works with a range of media, susch a photography, painting, urban design, sculpture and installation. Fernando Viscasillas was invited to the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Florence 2003, which was awarded the Lorenzo IL Magnifico Medal and has exhibited his artwork in Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Tokyo, Monte Carlo, London..."
  • Frédéric Schmiliver ↓
    A Belgian documentary photographer based in Brussels, born in 1980, transitioned from street photography to producing photographic essays, drawing inspiration from Ian Teh and Cédric Gerbehaye. Their work, featured in publications like Fisheye and Vice Belgium, aims for universality, conveying stories intuitively. Notable essays include “Le temps retrouvé” and “Winter Sleep,” capturing intimate family moments and the essence of Brussels during lockdown. “Kolovare” explores themes of youth and summer.
  • Fulvia Bernacca ↓
    "Artist and photographer (Rome,1986), she specialized in portrait and landscape photography at the Roman School of Photography. The center of her artistic research are the relationship between human beings and their environment, connection with time and memory, collective and individual, traditions and personal stories. She develops her projects with a personal and intimate narrative using a variety of media including photography, moving images, archival materials, words, sounds and sewing."
  • Gabriele Alongi ↓
    Gabriele Alongi born in Palermo (PA) on February 26, 1994. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Pa-lermo, where he is currently an expert on the subject for the chair of lithography and chalcography. Freelance photographer, graphic designer and photo editor based in Palermo. Proven experience in the world of contempo-rary art with several exhibitions starting from 2017 and publications in different magazines: ID Italy, Rolling Stone, Urban Magazine, T-mag, Nasty and Elle.
  • Gerhard Jörén ↓
    Having worked all over the globe for more than three decades, including twenty years covering Asia. He is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand. He works in both video and photography, with assignments ranging from health and social documentary to corporate portraiture and high-end commercial productions. His client list includes most of the world’s leading media publications, as well as major international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank and The World Bank, and multinational corporations like Volvo, Scania, and Fujifilm.
  • Gianluca Muscas ↓
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  • Gianni Melotti ↓
    "Gianni Melotti is an independent photographer and artist. Since the first half of ‘70s he documented the international artistic scene, starting from the professional experience at art/tapes/22 and the Zona’s activity in Florence. At the same time he presented his creative research work in international exhibitions and publications; these works were connected to the image development process through the use of a variety of materials."
  • Giuseppe Cardoni ↓
    Giuseppe Cardoni lives in Umbria, Italy. Engineer, he prefers B/W reportage. He has been part of the Leica Photographic Group in which he had the opportunity to meet the Masters of Italian photography for years.
  • Giuseppe Martella ↓
    Giuseppe Martella graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in New Art Technologies and graduated from the Italian Institute of Photography. His photographic research was born with the intention of debunking the standard canons of beauty and seeks to meticulously tackle every detail of the ever-changing contemporary psychological sexual sphere.
  • H. Alpers ↓
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  • Hamid Mosaddegh ↓
    Iranian graphic designer and artist with a degree in Visual Communication, Hamid Mosaddegh manages and produces a wide range of design projects in his studio in Tehran. The diversity and variety of approaches in these projects is one of the most important characteristics of his work. His work was featured in magazines such as Novum (Germany).
  • Irene Angelino ↓
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  • Isabelle Bertand ↓
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  • Jason Bentsman ↓
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  • Jason Rice ↓
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  • Jean Hincker ↓
  • Jeanne Taris ↓
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  • José Luis Ledesma ↓
  • Juliana Roccoforte Novello ↓
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  • Karine Laval ↓
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  • Letizia Giambalvo ↓
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  • Lia Dostlieva ↓
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  • Lorenzo Valloriani ↓
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  • Louis Celia ↓
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  • Luca Tommasi ↓
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  • Lucia Cash ↓
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  • Luciano Rossetti ↓
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  • Luigi Lista ↓
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  • Marco Guidi ↓
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  • Marco Rigamonti ↓
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  • Marina Ferrara ↓
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  • Martina Zaninelli ↓
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  • Massimo Baldini ↓
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  • Matteo Daidone ↓
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