Stefano De Luigi

De Luigi was born in Cologne. He has been a professional photographer since 1988. He lived in Paris from 1989 to 1996, working for the Louvre Museum.

In 1998 he completed the project Celebrities, about the fashion world. In 2000 he started the project Pornoland, a photographic journey on pornographic film sets, published as a book in 2004. From 2003 to 2006, he worked on his series Blindness - a photographic project on the blindness condition in the world, published as Blanco (2010). Blindness won the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund grant in 2007 and Blanco the Pictures of the Year International Best Photography Book Award.[1] In 2006 Luigi embarked on the project Cinema Mundi, a World Cinema exploration on the alternative cinematographic scene external to the Hollywood dream factory including China, Russia, Iran, Argentina, Nigeria, South Korea and India.

His photographs have been published in Stern, Paris Match, Le Monde 2, Time, The New Yorker, Internazionale, L’Espresso, Geo, Vanity Fair, El Pais and Sunday Time Magazine.[2]

• Pornoland. 2004. With a text by Martin Amis.
  • London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500284989.
  • Germany: Knessebeck.
  • France: La Martiniere.
  • Italy: Contrasto.
• Blanco. London: Trolley, 2010. ISBN 978-1907112140.
• iDyssey. Paris: Bessard, 2017.
• Babel. With Michela Battaglia. Rome: Postcart, 2018.

• 1998: World Press Photo arts and entertainments (3rd stories).
• 2000: Leica Oscar Barnack Honorable mention.
• 2005: Marco Bastianelli Prize, for Pornoland.[3]
• 2007: W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant.[4]
• 2007: World Press Photo, arts and entertainment (2nd single).
• 2009: Moving Walls (16) of Soros Foundation.
• 2010: Getty Grant for Editorial Photography.[5]
• 2010: World Press Photo, Contemporary Issue (2nd Single).
• 2010: Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards (1st Prize).[6]
• 2011: World Press Photo (2nd Multimedia).
• 2011: Hope for a Healthy World (1st Multimedia).
• 2011: Zoom-in on Poverty (1st Photo story).
• 2011: Pictures of the Year International Best Photography Book Award, for Blanco .[1]
• 2013: Premio Anima.
• 2013: Special Jury Prize, Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards.[7]
• 2013: Prix du Festival de St-Brieuc, Saint Brieuc Photographie du Reportage.[8]
• 2015: Syngenta Photography Award (3rd prize).

• Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (1993).
• Festival du Imagem, Braga (2001).
• Festival of photography, Savignano (2002).
• Pornoland, REA gallery (Paris 2004), Santa Cecilia gallery (Rome 2005), Lanificio (Naples 2006), Festival Transphotographiques (Lille 2007), New York Photo Festival (NY 2011).
• Transphotographique, Lille (2007).
• VII Gallery, New York (2010).
• 10/b Photography, Rome (2010).
• MART Museum of Modern Art Rovereto (2011).
• Athens Photo Festival, Athens (2012).
• Ilex Photo Gallery, Rome (2013).
• Fondazione Stelline, Milan (2013).
• International Photoreporter, Festival St Brieuc (2013).
• Noorderlicht Festival (2014).
• PhotoMed, Sannary-sur-Mer (2014).
• Mois de la Photo, Paris (2014) .
• Officine Fotografiche, Rome (2015).
• Athens Photo Festival (2016).
• Si Fest Savignano (2017).
• Catania Plenum Gallery (2018).
• Page Blanche Paris (2018).
• Officine Fotografiche Rome (2018).
• Palazzo Ducale Museum Genes (2019).

• The New Yorker
• MEP
• LensCulture
• Vice
• Polka
• Time
• Noorderlicht
• Phom Phom
• L' Oeil de la photographie
• Vogue
• The red list
• Open society foundations

• Official website