Samuele Pellecchia was born in Milan in 1972. After his studies in philosophy, in 1999 he began working as a photojournalist.
In 2004 he founded prospekt and istigated the PK project.
In the last few years, he worked on reportages in Kosovo, Macedonia, Algeria, Cuba, Palestine, Eastern Europe, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, South America, Lao PDR, Brazil and Ghana.
In 2006 he was among the authors of the project “Water Corp. Human Right or Commodity”, in collaboration with Amnesty International. In 2007 he was one of the photographers assigned for the book Let the Children Play by Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.
His long term project “Close To Me” was at Rencontres d’Arles, La Nuit de l’Année, 2011.
In 2006 and 2009 he won the first prize of the Enzo Baldoni Journalistic Award.
His works are published, among the others, on GQ, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Russian Reporter, D Repubblica delle Donne, l’Espresso, Private.
He is based in Milan.
CAIRO UNREST – CHAPTER III: THE END
by Francesco Giusti and Samuele Pellecchia. Cairo, Egypt. Night of February 11th 2011. The Egyptian unrest started on the 25th of january. On 11st of February Mubarak finally resigned. photo gallery
HAITI, CHRONICLES FROM PORT AU PRINCE
by Samuele Pellecchia and Francesco Giusti. Port au Prince, Haiti. January 12th – February 1st 2010. A massive earthquake hit Haiti on 12nd of January 2010 leaving about 210,000 dead people and a still unidentified number of injured. photo gallery … Continue reading
THE IRON COURTAIN DIARIES 1989-2009
by Samuele Pellecchia. Toward North. May 2009. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall two photographers together with two journalists, a director and a cartoonist travelled along the Iron Curtain, the 6.300 km long border that used to … Continue reading
EARTHQUAKE ABRUZZO
By Kathryn Cook, Michele Palazzi, Samuele Pellecchia, Cristina Vatielli. L’ Aquila, Italy. April 2009. On 6th April 2009 a massive earthquake about 6 on Richter Scale strikes Italy, leaving 293 deads, disappeared people, hundreds of injured persons and about 70,000 people … Continue reading
KROO BAY WATERS
by Samuele Pellecchia. Freetown, Sierra Leone. October 2007. Kroo Bay is a sprawling slum in the city centre of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. Home to over twenty thousand people, the shantytown sits amid mounds of mud and rubbish. Kroo Bay’s … Continue reading
TRIBUNAL FLUVIAL
by Samuele Pellecchia. Amapà, Brazil. June 2006. This is the story of a two deck boat, 22 metres long and 40 people aboard, with a special mission: sailing through the bunch of islands in the mouth of the Amazon river, … Continue reading
CHERNOBYL 20 YEARS LATER
by Samuele Pellecchia. Chernobul, Ukraine. 2005. In the first hours of the 26th of April 1986 it was bursting the number 4 atomic reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Twenty years later, I crossed Belarus and Ukraine to discover the consequencies of … Continue reading
VANISHING CUBA
by Samuele Pellecchia. Fidel Castro’s Twilight, Cuba. 2004. Like shadows at sunset, the future of Cuba is a change which arouses great fears and tremendous hopes. The projections of Cubans are conflicting and ambivalent but all of them agree that … Continue reading
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CLOSE TO ME – MULTIMEDIA
by Samuele Pellecchia. 2011. When you’ll finally say that is really idiotic to vomit right in the middle of the street, And when I’ll eventually say to you that it is because it’s hard to understand you that I feel … Continue reading
HAITI, SPIRITS IN THE DUST – MULTIMEDIA
by Samuele Pellecchia. Haiti. January 2010. This is a story about the spirits. About the relationship between the survivors and the deads. Vudù in Haiti is everywhere and it’s the cultural substrate of the perception of the death. The earthquake, … Continue reading
HAITI, CHRONICLES FROM PORT AU PRINCE – MULTIMEDIA
by Samuele Pellecchia and Francesco Giusti. Port au Prince, Haiti. January 12th – February 1st 2010. A massive earthquake hit Haiti on 12nd of January 2010 leaving about 210,000 dead people and a still unidentified number of injured. Video Producer: … Continue reading
03:32 AM 6.3 RICHTER – MULTIMEDIA
by Kathryn Cook, Emanuele Cremaschi, Francesca Hanne Mancini, Michele Palazzi, Samuele Pellecchia, Cristina Vatielli. On 6th April 2009 a massive earthquake about 6 on Richter Scale strikes Italy, leaving 293 deads, disappeared people, hundreds of injured persons and about 70,000 people … Continue reading