Freelance documentary photographer oriented toward investigation social realities, communities and identity related issues.
His research about psychiatry among the long-standing inmates of “L.Bianchi Psychiatric Hospital” in Napoli, received the honourable mention of “Leica Oskar Barnack Award” in 1999 and was a finalist of “Prix Care du Reportage Humanitaire” in 2000.
In 2002 he was awarded of “Premio Canon Giovani Fotografi” as “Best Photographic Project” with an intimate portrait story about a community of transvestites in Genova.
During the last years he has documented immigration and asylum seekers issues especially in Italy and in the Mediterrenean Sea.
In 2006 he published the book “Hotel Industria” and the volume “Ex Fabrica – Identities and mutations on the border of the metropolis”; both publications are about the ex industrial areas on the outskirts of Milan, inhabited and transformed in shelters by illegal immigrants (honourable mention Ponchielli Award 2003).
He has documented slums in Nairobi, Cairo and Port Au Prince; part of a long on-going project about metropolis and informal settlements communities.
He has recently worked in Haiti, in the Sub-Sahara area of Western Africa and in Congo Brazzaville.
His works has been published in Italy and abroad and exhibited in galleries and international photographic events.
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IN CASE OF LOSS
by Francesco Giusti. Ras Jadir, Tunisia-Libya border. March 2011. Nearly 70,000 Bangladeshi nationals were residing in Libya as migrant workers when violence erupted in February 2011. As the conflict intensified, thousands fled to neighboring countries, where they face congested borders … Continue reading
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
CAIRO UNREST – CHAPTER II: THE NIGHT OF MUBARAK ANNOUNCEMENT
by Francesco Giusti, Kosuke Okahara and Samuele Pellecchia. Cairo, Egypt. Night of February 10th 2011. On 10th afternoon he ruling party officials suggest Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak may meet protesters demand and step down. All the day long thousands of … Continue reading
CAIRO UNREST – CHAPTER I: MUBARAK ON TRIAL
by Francesco Giusti, Kosuke Okahara and Samuele Pellecchia. Cairo, Egypt. February 1st-11th 2011. A massive popular protest began in Egypt on 25th January 2011. The street demonstrations start a week after the Tunisian Revolution, and are focused on legal and … Continue reading
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
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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