About Matteo B.

Matteo Bastianelli (b. 1985) is a freelance documentary photographer, videographer, certified drone operator, video editor and filmmaker based in Rome, Italy. He is a National Geographic Magazine contributor and a member of Italy's National Order of Journalists since 2009. Above all he works on personal and long-term projects related to social, environmental and human rights issues, with a keen interest in consequences of wars and contemporary issues affecting our society. His photographic and film projects have been published and commissioned by a number of national and international magazines, such as Al Jazeera, Burn, CNN, Corriere della Sera, Der Spiegel, Discovery Channel Interactive, D- La Repubblica, El Pais, Internazionale, International New York Times, Lens - The New York Times, L'Espresso, L'Europeo, La Repubblica, La Stampa, MSNBC, National Geographic Magazine, Newsweek Japan, PDN, Super 8-La Repubblica, Stern, Sky News, TIME Lightbox, Vanity Fair, Voice of America, Washington Post, XL Semanal, among others. Since 2016 he has also been working on assignment for NGOs such as Amnesty International, AVSI, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, Human Rights Watch and International Committee of the Red Cross. His projects have been shown in Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, The Netherlands and USA. He has received various awards for his work, among which PDN’s Photo Annual, Emerging Talent Award at Reportage by Getty Images, Canon Young Photographers’ Award, Honorable Mention from the NPPA- Best of photojournalism, finalist for the Burn Emerging Photographer Fund, Marco Bastianelli Prize for the Best First Book and "Vittorio de Seta" prize for the director of the best documentary film at BIF&ST- Bari International Film Festival 2013. In 2018 Bastianelli documented the world’s worst humanitarian disaster caused by the ongoing civil war in Yemen, focusing his attention on the resilience of civilians trapped in a life of violence and disease. His Yemen project appeared in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic Magazine and has been used worldwide by Doctors Without Borders in 2019 for advocacy campaigns to help and protect Yemeni civilians. His documentary film "Yemen Unveiled" was screened during the 2019 Human Rights Film Festival in Berlin, Germany and has been included in the Official Selection of the Health for All Film Festival 2020, organized by the World Health Organization in Geneva. In 2019 he documented various issues affecting the Mexican society between the States of Guerrero, Puebla and Oaxaca for the AVSI Foundation, realizing the documentary film “Fortaleza, México”, screened at the 15th edition of the “Short Mexico” International Film Festival. In 2020, Matteo Bastianelli started documenting the effect of the COVID-19 outbreak and resulting quarantine on Rome’s community of homeless, migrants and refugees. After fleeing from areas of conflict, these vulnerable people now face the global pandemic amid rising anti-immigrant sentiment. His project proposal was selected by the National Geographic Society and supported by the Natgeo Society’s Covid-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists.

About Martin E.

Martin Errichiello is a filmmaker, documentary photographer and visual artist. Since 2008 he developed indipendent editorial projects, worked with film and multimedia studios in the audiovisual production and collaborated with anthropologists, musicians and directors on different projects, exhibitions and feature films. In 2010 he graduates in Visual Communication at the CFP Bauer of Milan with an internship with artist Raffaela Mariniello. In 2012 he was selected for the Visual Storytelling Master course at the Danish School of Media where he founded the international crossmedia network "Panaut Collective” and realized the awards-winning documentary "Archipelagoes". He lived, traveled and worked in Asia, Africa and Europe; he’s now based in Napoli, where he works on a mixed media long- term research about Sputhern Italy’s identity. In 2017, together with Filippo Menichetti he released the first chapter, “In Fourth Person” which has been presented, exhibited and awarded in Europe and America. His clients include: Frieze Ltd, SKY, TIME Inc, Al Jazeera, Minerva Film, Figli del Bronx Prod, Circus Studio, Kaos Produzioni, Casa Verde Prod, Maestri di Strada onlus, Andrew Fierberg (film producer), Judith Barry (Video artist), Hithertofore Prod, Refinery 29, among others."

About Mia C.

Mia Cioffi Henry is a cinematographer and director from New York City. With a background in dance and still photography, she likes to make magic come to life on screen. Ms. Cioffi Henry is a working artist currently pursuing her MFA at NYU as a Dean’s fellow and Production Associate, she is the recipient of the Best Cinematography Award sponsored by Canon at the Fusion Film Festival 2015.

About Evelyn S.

I am an audiovisual communicator from Cali - Colombia. In love with photography and travelling. In photography the portraits, documentary and wild nature lanscapes are my speciality. In videography, I can work as a screenwriter, editor, cameraman and producer if necessary. Due to my personality, I tend to work with cultural, gender, social and environmental issues.

About JAMES W.

I’m an Italy specialist with a wealth of experience as a field producer, researcher, location manager/fixer for high-quality factual films, both for broadcast and theatrical release. I’ve also worked - and continue to work extensively - in news & current affairs and on TV commercials, and more recently also on substantial promotional events for UK clients. I’ve worked on legions of television documentary films, mainly for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, PBS, Discovery Channel, National Geographic and other major broadcasters, on films about archaeology, art, biography, food, history, politics, science and sport. For ABC News I worked as an assignment editor and news segment producer in the UK, and in Italy as a field producer, off-air reporter and news editor. I worked as a Broadcast Manager for NBC Olympics at the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games, and in Italy as a freelance producer for CNN, a print stringer for UPI and Jane’s Defence Weekly. I’m British – an English mother-tongue speaker with fluent Italian, good French and basic Spanish.

About Jacopo M.

Freelance cinematographer, camera operator with 6+ years of international experience. Italy-based, available worldwide.

About Mattia P.

I have a long experience in the audiovisual as an editor, director, field producer and cinematographer. I can easily manage the production, shooting and editing of documentary or journalistic videos. For my complete filmography, the equipment supplied and access to my works on vimeo, consult my website. www.mattiapetulla.com

About Lavinia P.

Born in Rome (IT), living in Marseille (FRA), I graduated in Communication, then specializing in illustration and graphic design and studying documentary photography. Since 2011 I have been working as a freelance photographer, shooting for personal documentary projects, editorials, live events, weddings, commercial reports and more. My personal research explores the grotesque paradoxes generated by sometimes overrated human society.

About Camillo P.

Camillo Pasquarelli (b.1988, Italy) is deeply inspired by his education in Anthropology to lead visual investigations based on long-term immersion in social contexts. He is one of the 20 artists selected for the FOAM Talent 2020. And in the same year is among the four artists selected by CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia for the European program Futures Photography. His first photobook "Monsoons never cross the mountains" was published by Witty Books in 2020. Camillo is a lecturer at Quasar Institute for Advanced Design in Rome. His projects received several awards such as 1° Prize LensCulture B&W, Shortlist at PH Museum Grant, Best Rising Talent at Gomma Grant, Alexia Foundation Grant, Fotoleggendo Award, Shortlist Unseen Dummy Award. Publications Time - Der Spiegel - M Le Monde Magazine - National Geographic - Financial Times - Internazionale - Polka - BuzzFeed - L'Espresso - Mashable - Vanity Fair - Sportweek - Artribune - FOAM Magazine Clients Lacoste - New Balance - AS Roma - K-Way - Brain Dead - NSS Factory -

About Antonio F.

Antonio Faccilongo is an Italian documentary photographer and filmmaker, photography professor at Rome University of Fine Arts and is represented by Getty Reportage. After graduating in communication sciences, and then obtaining a masters in photojournalism, he focused his attention on Asia and the Middle East, principally in Israel and Palestine, covering social, political and cultural issues. Documenting the aftermath of Palestinian-Israeli conflict in West Bank and Gaza Strip, he sought to unveil and highlight the humanitarian issues hidden within one of the world’s most reported conflicts, because too often it is shown only as a place of war and conflict. His long-term projects about women and their families in Palestine have received several awards and grants including World Press Photo story of the year 2021 nominee, World Press Photo in long-term projects category, FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo, Getty editorial grant, National Geographic Society Covid-19 Emergency Fund 2021 recipient, 1st prize World Understanding Award at POYi Pictures of the year International, Best color documentary at Gomma Grant, 1st prize at LuganoPhotoDays, 1st prize at Umbria World Fest, 1st prize at Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards, 2nd Prize at PhMuseum and was finalist at Visa D'or feature, Lucas Dolega award adn shortlisted at Alexia Foundation. Furthermore his long-term projects have been exhibited internationally at numerous shows and festivals including World Press Photo Festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Zoom Festival, Festival della fotografia etica, PHmuseum online photobook festival, Buenos Aires Biennial, screened at Visa pour l'image Perpignan and was included on global campaign #WomenMatter against the violence toward women made by Dysturb. His work and assignments have been published in some of the most prominent international publications including National Geographic, Time, Stern, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Geo, The Guardian, 6Mois, Paris Match, Focus, Sette, L'Espresso, Internazionale and many others.