Alessandro Vincenzi
Alessandro Vincenzi is a self-trained documentary photographer, who started his career as a photographer at the end of 2008 after working for almost five years with Medecins Sans Frontieres as a biologist. Since the beginning he decided to start a photographic research that took him to Eastern Europe in search of stories that were somehow related to the Soviet past. He found himself working for almost ten years between Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Crimea and Russia, feeling attracted to stories that were all linked together by a single concept: the scarce or almost zero visibility in the international media. The less he knew, the more he felt attracted. This spirit has led him to start Lands in Between, a new research on not well-known minorities living in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. At the same time he his working since four years a Man, Water and Fire, an in-depth study on the relation that exist between human being and the surrounding nature in Lanzarote, Canary Island. His works have been published widely, as The Guardian, Der Spiegel, l’OBS, Le Monde, CNN, Mariclaire, D della Repubblica, Vanity Fair, GEO Italy, Geo Russia, Revue 21, among others. He is based in Barcelona where he lives with his family.
Mashid Mohadjerin
Her photo-essays are portrait based long-term projects. She has been turning her camera to identity and gender related issues, migration and the socially/culturally displaced. Her latest work includes photo essays on trafficking of women within the European Union and the future of young Native Americans in Oklahoma. She is currently based in Belgium. Mashid’s photography won numerous awards among which first place in the 2009 World Press Photo Contemporary Issues category, International Photography Award, Prix de La Photo, International Talent Support. Her work was shown at Noorderlicht Photo festival in Holland, Palm Springs Photo festival in California, Fotoleggendo in Italy, traveling IOM exhibition in Central Asia, World Press Photo exhibition around the world, and the Slideluck Potshow at Aperture gallery in New York. She is represented by Redux Pictures Photo Agency in New York. Her clients include The New York Times, Newsweek, Global Post, La Repubblica/La Domenica, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe & Mail, BBC online, MSF (Doctors Without Borders), Oxfam, Amnesty Journal, Mondiaal magazine, De Morgen, De Standaard Magazine, De Volkskrant, among others. Mashid grew up and received her Masters in Fine Arts in Belgium and is based in New York and Belgium. Mashid has worked in the Middle East, Central Asia, East, West and North Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, North and Latin America. She speaks English, Dutch, Farsi and French.
Erik Messori
Erik Messori is a photojournalist and founder of CAPTA Collective, specialising in photojournalism and reportage of both domestic and international issues around the world. Over the past 15 years, Erik has covered armed conflicts, humanitarian and environmental crises, social inequalities, and in-depth, issue-driven stories across Asia, Africa, Europe and Eastern Europe. His work, published by major international media outlets, is often used as material for debate during conferences, television programs, and festivals. It is also exhibited and projected in many museums, galleries, and universities. His works have been published in: Stern Magazine, National Geographic Italia, Newsweek, Al Jazeera, OBS Magazine, The Guardian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, Der Spiegel, CNN, Wired Magazine Italia, SDZ, Days Japan, Vanity Fair, Vogue Italia, Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, South China Morning Post, The Australian. A portion of his project on Chernobyl has been published in the volume Connections across a Human Planet (Photojournale 2009) and his Coal Mines image has been published in the book Bonded Labor (Columbia University NYC 2012). He has been recognized with many international awards, including first prize at POYi.
Miguel Candela
Ariana Drehsler
Ariana Drehsler is a photojournalist with a focus on social and political issues based in San Diego, California. Ariana has covered the Arab Spring, the rise and fall of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, and the frontlines of Syria’s Civil War. In 2019 she completed a series focusing on migrants at the U.S. – Mexican border, including migrants who have traveled through Central America and Mexico in hopes of seeking asylum in the United States. She has also photographed stories relating to Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, and the 2020 US presidential election. Ariana is a graduate of the Design Institute of San Diego with a BFA in Interior Design. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, NZZ, Vox, Bloomberg, The San Diego Union-Tribune, NPR, Vice Magazine, San Diego Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, BuzzFeed News, KQED, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and others. She is HEFAT certified.
Andrea Vagnoni
Andrea Vagnoni based in Marche is an Italian photographer graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications. His personal projects document social and environmental issues. As Freelancer he is working also with different companies developing corporate projects.
Starting to dedicate himself to photography he followed a two-year course and various workshops on photojournalism and reportage held by contemporary reference exponents.
Photography is for him a useful tool to testimony social and environmental issues that supports the knowledge that precedes information, where ethics and aesthetics do not conflict due to time and money. He has been working as a freelance photographer for more than 15 years now, publishing with various newspapers and magazines and collaborating with theater companies, associations and NGOs. In recent years he has started teaching photojournalism in educational projects of some institutes in his area.