Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy
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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.
October • 2016
We hired Matteo to edit some existing footage about mental health in Nigeria. Matteo was quick to respond and easy to talk to. We communicated via email, Skype and text with no problem. He was able to understand the creative brief and bring his own unique perspective. He finished the project on time and took care to deliver all materials and formats upon completion. I would not hesitate to use him again.
May • 2020
Matteo was great to work with! I was especially impressed with his pre-production help. He found the perfect locations to shoot and the perfect people to interview and delivered beautifully shot footage. He is very professional. He quickly responds to all communications and translated all interviews for us.
May • 2019
Matteo is an exceptional photographer and is true professional. He made important contributions to the project and was very flexible with our subject's unpredictable schedule. I would not hesitate to hire Matteo for another assignment.
"The World Has Left Yemen to Die", by Nina Strochlic, photographs by Matteo Bastianelli. Exclusive photos give a rare look inside the country, where civil war has trapped civilians in a life of violence and disease.
Time seems to have stopped at the Industrial Revolution in the 800's, amid decadent buildings together with the traditional fascination of the fishermen that result in a neorealist postcard image. It is the historic centre of the Magna Graecia surrounded by a contaminated sea with its past floating back up to the surface. The backdrop is that of the steel-work hub in Taranto. The largest in Europe and also the most polluted.
A journey into the memory of Bosnia. A continuous voyage of self-awareness amidst the horror of the Srebrenica genocide and the memory of an ethnic cleansing that goes beyond time. Where suffering, hope and black humour outline a common Bosnian identity born, or perhaps only survived, from the ashes of the former Yugoslavia.
The Syrian war began in 2011 and, in four years, has seen an exodus of more than 3 million refugees. Who doesn't choose the sea-route, like 22-year-old Mohamad Al Masalmeh, with its interminable voyages of hope aboard makeshift vessels, is obliged to knock on Europe's gateway, Bulgaria. After 1 year in the refugee camp, Mohamad escaped and travelled illegally from Bulgaria to Germany.
A journey into the memory of Bosnia. A nation still locked among dreams of release and pressure towards nationalism, in a transition still present between past and future.
The conflict between the Houthi Shiite rebels supported by Iran and the Yemeni Sunni government supported by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition has been going on for almost 4 years, causing the death of 17,000 people. In a nation of nearly 29 million, 22 million Yemenis are in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the UN.
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