Annecristie Badiu
Project manager / Founder
Annecristie Badiu gathered her first experience by working for the TV Broadcast Production Company, Me Myself & Eye in Hamburg. She spent several years working in different editorial departments of the company. At the same time she graduated from the University of Hamburg with a M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures. In 2008 she started working for action press, one of the greatest and long standing photography agencies in Germany. She worked as a picture editor and was responsible for exclusive set sales and acquisition of new international photographers. She functioned also as a key account manager for all partnering agencies and suppliers. She attended every year international trades shows and festivals. In 2012 she moved to Italy and continued her experience in the field by working as an account manager for the photojournalism agency ParalleloZero. At the moment she is working as a freelance photography agent.
Antonello Turchetti
Artistic Director
Antonello Turchetti is a professional photographer, art therapist and curator of events and photographic exhibitions. His first camera was a Polaroid “Instant 1000 Deluxe and, as he declares, that was the thing that most of all changed his way to see the world. He is using photography as a tool to tell stories that are often ignored and to reactivate the people's perception. Through his creativity he also promotes internal and external communication and supports processes of self-affirmation during his work in art therapy. He is founder and curator of the Perugia Social Photo Fest, an international festival that took place from 2012 to 2018, and has exhibited social and therapeutic photography. He coordinates social and therapeutic photography projects in Italy and is an external professor at diverse Italian institutes and academies. Antonello is co-founder of NetFo, the first Italian network of phototherapy, therapeutic photography and social action photography.
Gregory Beals
Visual Storytelling
Gregory Beals is a storyteller, a multi-media journalist and a communications professional who believes in creating accurate, authentic narratives that resonate in the soul. He has followed the lives of survivors of the world’s worst conflicts for the past 17 years. He is currently working as the Spain correspondent for The Daily Beast, and he has more than 20 years experience working as a journalist. He has also worked as an editor, founder of online media and humanitarian information response specialist with a variety of NGOs and the United Nations. His work has appeared in such publications as Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Newsweek and other media organizations. His photography work has shown in such museums as the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago and at theCasa dell’Architettura, in Piazza Fanti in Rome. He has also shown my work at the Sala Docs gallery during the 56th Venice Biennale.
Peter Wilson
Journalist - Corrispondent
Peter Wilson is a highly experienced and versatile reporter working out of London. He has spent more than 20 years as a foreign correspondent based in Tokyo, Washington and London, reporting from 60-plus countries on everything from wars to US presidential elections, Tokyo fashion shows, papal elections, Wimbledon and the Olympics. He has written for newspapers and magazines in more than 20 countries. Named the “Australian Journalist of the Year” in 2003 for his Iraq War coverage, he served as Deputy Editor of the national newspaper The Australian and began freelancing in 2012. Having trained on Melbourne’s “Sun News-Pictorial” he has spent his whole career working closely with photographers to maximize the impact of having words and photos work together. Articles have appeared in titles including the New York Times, The Economist's "1843", Newsweek Japan, Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Age, The Australian, The Times, De Morgen, National Post, Kathimerini, Expressen, South China Morning Post, Irish Times, De Telegraaf, Aftenposten, Expresso. He has interviewed Bill Clinton, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Pavarotti, Spielberg and Blair and wrote a book on the Iraq War called "A Long Drive Through a Short War ".