GIORGIO PALMERA
He’s principally a social photographer reporting from the Middle East, Africa and South America. Between 1996 and 1998 he spent a lot of time in Nicaragua, where he used to held photography workshops for street kids. From this experience in 2002 the Onlus Fotografi Senza Frontiere was born, of which he is founder and president. Photography workshops followed in Algeria, with the Saharawi population, in Palestine, in Uganda, in Argentina and Panama with the Kuna people. His photojournalism reports have been published in Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Newsweek, Le Monde, Espresso, Internazionale.
He published a photographic book about the wall construction in Palestine: Al Jidar, Trolley Ltd, London 2007; and a book about prostitution in Uganda: Body and Soul, Postcart, Rome 2009. He won the Lucca Book Contest in 2011 with a book on the reconstruction of memories in Argentina: Memoria, Postcart, Rome 2011.
As a director and director of photography he made: Desplazados (2009), produced by Food and Agriculture Organization); L’Ultima Frontiera (2016), produced by RAI Cinema and RAI Com; Hoy Cuba (2018), produced by Abuelita SRL.; Teneramente (2020), produced by Variety Distribution and Halley Picture.
GIORGIO PALMERA
He’s principally a social photographer reporting from the Middle East, Africa and South America. Between 1996 and 1998 he spent a lot of time in Nicaragua, where he used to held photography workshops for street kids. From this experience in 2002 the Onlus Fotografi Senza Frontiere was born, of which he is founder and president. Photography workshops followed in Algeria, with the Saharawi population, in Palestine, in Uganda, in Argentina and Panama with the Kuna people. His photojournalism reports have been published in Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Newsweek, Le Monde, Espresso, Internazionale.
He published a photographic book about the wall construction in Palestine: Al Jidar, Trolley Ltd, London 2007; and a book about prostitution in Uganda: Body and Soul, Postcart, Rome 2009. He won the Lucca Book Contest in 2011 with a book on the reconstruction of memories in Argentina: Memoria, Postcart, Rome 2011.
As a director and director of photography he made: Desplazados (2009), produced by Food and Agriculture Organization); L’Ultima Frontiera (2016), produced by RAI Cinema and RAI Com; Hoy Cuba (2018), produced by Abuelita SRL.; Teneramente (2020), produced by Variety Distribution and Halley Picture.
FOTOGRAFI SENZA FRONTIERE
The Fotografi Senza Frontiere‘s mission is to open permanent photo labs directed to adults and children living in situations of social disadvantage in Italy and abroad; in order to provide them the means to make an experience of self-representation: the students are protagonists in telling themselves and the stories about them. The purpose of the FSF is to make independent the laboratories, entrusting them to local leaders appointed from among the students. The activities help to develop a critical conscience towards the media, to stimulate a sensitivity to the observation of the surrounding world and discovering new points of view. Our projects offer the opportunity to learn the basics of a profession, forming professional photographers through internships on site and / or abroad scholarships.