Marco Panzetti

Marco Panzetti (Italy, 1981) is a documentary photographer and multimedia journalist working on contemporary issues related to social injustice, migration and collective identity.

Career

Marco Panzetti is a documentary photographer and multimedia journalist. At the beginning of his career in photography, he was apprentice to the photographer Michel Huneault[1] and worked as his personal assistant in 2014 and 2015.

His work focuses on contemporary issues related to social injustice, migration[2][3] and collective identity. He carried out projects in Europe, Latin America and Asia, frequently in collaboration or on assignment for nonprofit organizations and magazines. He also works with different audiovisual formats (video, audio and VR) to create short documentary films, immersive multimedia pieces and installations.

Among other publications, his work appeared in BBC News,[4] The Times, Vice, British Red Cross, LA Times, Internazionale,[5] New Statesman, Diari Ara, Tages-Anzeiger,[6] and the Sydney Morning Herald.

His long-term body of work on the European migrant crisis, 'The Idea of Europe' (2015 – present) received international recognition including an Honorable Mention at the 2017 Lange-Taylor Prize[7] and the first prize in the video category at the 2017 Migration Media Award[8]

Awards and recognition

  • 2018. The Idea of Europe. 2nd place, 2017 Imagely Fund Humanitarian Photography Grant.[9]
  • 2018. Life after Hell (single photo). Winner, 2018 Spanish National Photojournalism Award.[10]
  • 2017. The Idea of Europe. Honorable Mention, 2017 Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University (USA)[7]
  • 2017. In Between (Single photo). Finalist, Festival della Fotografia Etica 2017 - Single Shot Award: Solidarietà Fertile.
  • 2017. In Between. Shortlisted, 2017 Felix Schoeller Award
  • 2017. In Between. First Prize Winner, 2017 Migration Media Awards - Video category[8]
  • 2017. In Between. Shortlisted. 2017 Athens Photo Festival.
  • 2016. In Between. Contest Winner. 'Closer 2016 - Dentro il reportage' by Witness Journal
  • 2016. We are not going back. Shortlisted. 2016 Athens Photo Festival.
  • 2015. We are not going back. Selected. 2015 Visa pour l'Image Festival - ANI's Coup de Coeur section.

Exhibitions

  • 2017. In Between (Single photo). Festival della Fotografia Etica 2017 - Single Shot Award: Solidarietà Fertile. Lodi, Italy (group)
  • 2017. Mediterranean Dispatches (from In Between). Festival della Fotografia Etica 2017 - OFF Section. Lodi, Italy (group)
  • 2017. In Between. 2017 Photogenic Festival. Barcelona, Spain (solo)
  • 2017. In Between (single photo). Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize for SOS Méditerranée. UNESCO building, Paris, France (group)
  • 2017. In Between. Mediterraneo Downtown Festival. Logge del Palazzo Comunale, Prato, Italy (group)
  • 2017. In Between. IsoLab, Taranto, Italy (solo)
  • 2017. In Between. Arsenale della Marina Regia, Palermo, Italy (group)
  • 2017. In Between. QR Photogallery, Bologna, Italy (group)
  • 2016. We are not going back. Pati Llimona, Barcelona, Spain (solo)

References

  1. ↑ "COSMOS Photos". Cosmosphoto.com. Archived from the original on 2010-06-10.
  2. ↑ "Il viaggio dei migranti attraverso le foto di Marco Panzetti - Orizzontinternazionali". Orizzontinternazionali (in Italian). 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  3. ↑ "In Between Marco Panzetti ha fotografato le operazioni di soccorso nel Mediterraneo – the Submarine". thesubmarine.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  4. ↑ "Life in an Italian migrant camp". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  5. ↑ "Non torniamo indietro". Internazionale (in Italian). 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  6. ↑ "Rettungsengel auf dem Mittelmeer | Zoom Fotoblog". Zoom Fotoblog (in German). 2017-06-20. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  7. 1 2 "2017 Lange-Taylor Prize: Katherine Yungmee Kim, "Severance" | Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University". documentarystudies.duke.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  8. 1 2 "Migration Media Award 2017 | In Between from Marco Panzetti awarded Video Category, 1st Prize". www.migration-media-award.eu. Archived from the original on 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  9. ↑ "Announcing the 2017 Imagely Fund Winner Giles Clarke". Imagely. 2018-05-22. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  10. ↑ "Marco Panzetti gana el Premio Nacional de Fotoperiodismo 2018" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-04-23.
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