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La scuola di Contrasto: corso di alta formazione in fotogiornalismo
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Contrasto inaugura la prima scuola in Italia interamente dedicata allo studio del fotogiornalismo, con corsi teorici e pratici di differente durata e approfondimento.
Forte della esperienza maturata in oltre venti anni di attività, e quindi di “lavoro sul campo”,  Contrasto mette ora a disposizione la propria esperienza nei vari settori (produzione, diffusione, divulgazione, didattica, esposizione di fotografie e casa editrice) per tutte le professionalità che si muovono nel campo della fotografia (fotografi, photo editors, ricercatori, archivisti, operatori culturali, redattori) e che si trovano ad affrontare le nuove sfide poste in un mercato in continua evoluzione.

La Scuola di Contrasto, realizzata in collaborazione con Canon, che è da anni promotore di moltissime attività e iniziative culturali legate al mondo della fotografia, dà avvio alla propria programmazione didattica con il Corso di Alta Formazione in Fotogiornalismo, diretto da Denis Curti.
Il primo corso si svolgerà interamente a Milano presso la sede di Contrasto (Via Marco Polo 9), appositamente ampliata per accogliere gli studenti della nuova scuola. La data è il 22 settembre e la durata è di 12 settimane, per un totale di 264 ore di didattica. Le lezioni si svolgeranno dal mercoledì al sabato in orari diurni.
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Lap dancers by Luigi Gariglio at the Kunsthalle in Vienna
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
From July the 3rd until October the 18th 2009, six large format pictures shot by Luigi Garigio portraying lap dancers will be exhibited at the KunstHalle in Vienna, within the exhibition titled "The portrait: photography as stage. From Robert Mappletorphe to Nan Goldin".
Cambodia by Simona Ghizzoni on Internazionale
Friday, 26 June 2009
Cambodia has brought its recent past to account as regards political and moral point of views, not so from the judicial side. Cambodians talk publicly about their history, about the genocide that costed the lives of two millions people, during an ideological madness unequalled as far as intensity and extermination methodologies go. At the end of 2008, after four years of negotiations between the Cambodian Government and the United Nations, a special criminal court has been set up to start the trial against the leaders of the Khmer Rouge. Nowadays Cambodia is a country fighting daily against anti-personnel mines, prostitution and Aids, an high child mortality and one of the most fragile economy in the whole Asiatic Continent.
In 1998 at Battambang, one of the biggest mined areas in the country, Emergency built a Surgical Center, that later became a Surgical and traumatological Center, to take care of war victims as well as of landmine victims.
The reportage shot by Simona Ghizzoni has been published on Internazionale.
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Earthquake in Abruzzo by Christopher Olssøn on L' Espresso
Friday, 26 June 2009
On April the 6th, 3.32 a.m., a powerful earthquake struck a huge swathe of central Italy killing at least 16 people when houses, churches and other buildings collapsed. The dead were mainly in L'Aquila, a 13th century mountain city about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome that has a population of 80,000, and surrounding villages. Rubble was strewn throughout the city and nearby towns, blocking roads and hampering rescue teams and residents who tried to lift debris with their bare hands in a search for survivors from the quake, which had a magnitude of at least 5.8 An image shot by Christopher Olssøn in a refugee camp has been used as cover by L'Espresso.
Carlos Jones wins the 1st prize Advertising-Food at PX3
Thursday, 25 June 2009
The results of the PX3 have been published on their website. PX3 (Prix de la Photographie Paris) is one of the most important European awards in photography. Among the winners, we are glad to announce that Carlos Jones has won the 1st prize in the "Advertising - Food" category.
Among the honorable mentions Carlos Jones with a series focused on "Italian Craftman Shoemakers", Salvatore Esposito with his feature on "Scampia" and Cesare Cicardini with "Burlesque dancers".


c) Carlos Jones - Macellaio
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Simona Ghizzoni wins the PhotoEspaña OjodePez Human Values Award
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Thanks to her project about the eating disorders, Odd Days, Simona Ghizzoni won the PhotoEspaña OjodePez Human Values Award. Among the finalists also Francesco Cocco, with his reportage on Afghanistan, and Alessandro Cosmelli, with his feature Deported, about the Mexico-USA border.


c) Simona Ghizzoni
Ex child-soldiers in Congo by Alfredo Falvo on Io Donna
Monday, 22 June 2009
“There is not worst place to be a child”. For many reasons this sentence often recurs when they speak about the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of these reasons is that when you are 8 in Congo you may find yourself holding a rifle in order to be sent to the front. even the lucky children, the ones either freed or fugitive, will bear a terrible trauma for the rest of their lives. Their reintegration in the society isn’t easy at all and after the release, they need to spend some months in rehab centers, as the Cajed (supported by Unicef), Don Bosco, Simama, or Hope in Action. The reportage shot by Alfredo Falvo has been published on Io Donna.
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Fifty-years old fathers by Marta Sarlo on D
Saturday, 20 June 2009
Those men that after turning 50 decide to face fatherhood. An example is Diego Ribon, actor and script-writer, pictured together with his daughter Nora by Marta Sarlo for D - La Repubblica delle Donne.
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Martina Stella by Fabio Lovino on Gioia
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Young actress Martina Stella has been exclusively portrayed on the cover of Gioia by Fabio Lovino, who also shot the images published inside the magazine.




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Hinterland by Martino Lombezzi on Io Donna
Thursday, 18 June 2009
The hinterland of Milan and its suburbs pictured by Martino Lombezzi for Io Donna.
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Dan Vasella by Carlos Jones on BusinessWeek
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Dan Vasella has served as Chief Executive Officer since the creation of Novartis, back in 1996. He  has led Novartis through dynamic growth to rank among the world's most successful healthcare companies. The cover image was shot by Carlos Jones on assignment for BusinessWeek.
Miami Beach by Alessandro Cosmelli on Vanity Fair
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Miami is one of the US cities where immigration integrated the most as generations went by. The reportage shot by Alessandro Cosmelli in Miami Beach was assigned by Vanity Fair.
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Alessandro Gassman by Fabio Lovino on Style
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Actor Alessandro Gassman tells about the need of sobriety in the show business. The cover reportage has been shot by Fabio Lovino on Style.
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Bobby Kennedy III by Carlos Jones on Style
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Grandson of Robert, the Senator killed during the Presidential campaign in 1968, Bobby Kennedy III is a movie director and his first movie will be set in Italy. The portrait has been shot by Carlos Jones for Style.
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Salman Rushdie di Alberto Conti su Vanity Fair
Monday, 15 June 2009
Lo scrittore Salman Rashdie torna a Firenze per presentare il suo ultimo libro, "L'incantatrice di Firenze", ambientato nella città toscana. Rashdie è stato fotografato nelle sale di Palazzo Vecchio da Alberto Conti per Vanity Fair.
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Along the former Iron Curtain by Davide Monteleone on L' Europeo
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
During 2009, the 20th anniversary of the demolition of the Berlin Wall and the 60th anniversary of the NATO’s foundation (the organization born to contrast the feared Sovietic invasion in Western Europe) will be celebrated.
The Iron Curtain, ultimate and extreme symbol of a time when families, politics, ideologies, economies, loves and friends had been divided, nowadays is just a ghost, not even as scary as it used to be.
Europe is expanding to the East, towards the ancient borders of the former adverse Empire. On the occasion of such an important anniversary, Davide Monteleone realized a photographic project along the track of the ex-Iron Curtain, a border disappeared twenty years ago. In the past it used to be a physical space, nowadays just a mental one, a way to cover from North to South, or to cross from West to East, and back. Monteleone's feature has been published on L'Europeo.
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Leisure Time by Massimo Siragusa on Polka
Friday, 05 June 2009
The Leisure Time by Massimo Siragusa, the work which got him the second prize in the "Arts and entertainment category" of the World Press Photo 2008, has been published on the current issue of French quarterly magazine Polka.
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Flying Away exhibition by Elena Givone at Mo.C.A. Studio, Rome
Friday, 05 June 2009
The photographic project “Flying Away” was born from the desire to give a moment of diversion to the minors living in the the lacking Brazilian communities. The project begun in 2008, among the children in the favelas of Palhoça - Florianopolis, and it’s been carried out during 2009, in two juvenile prisons: at Salvador de Bahia and in the fazenda “A Partilha” at Pituba, where youths in a semi custody conditions are held.
This is a way to talk about dramatic situations combining kindness and sweetness with realism, giving hope instead of sighs of compassion, avoiding expected pietisms and uniting the classical techniques of photojournalism with the conceptualism art.
 The exhibition will take place at Mo.C.A. Studio, in Rome, at Piazza degli Zingari 1, from June the 5th to June the 18th.
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Cholitas by Fabio Cuttica on the Sunday Times Magazine
Thursday, 04 June 2009
n Bolivia, in the town of El Alto, near La Paz, a few years ago a new discipline was born: the "Cholitas freestyle wrestling". Evidently inspired by the Mexican catch -"lucha libre"- really popular in the whole Latin America, the protagonists of "Cholitas freestyle wrestling" are Bolivian women from the Aymara ethnic group, characterized by their long plaits, full skirts, bowler hats. These are the clothes they wear daily and the same clothes they wear when fighting on the ring. Fabio Cuttica's reportage has been published on The Sunday Times Magazine.
Massimo Siragusa espone a Polka, Parigi
Thursday, 04 June 2009
Cinque immagini di Massimo Siragusa sono state scelte per la mostra collettiva "Chaque photo a son histoire", che si terrà a Parigi presso Polka Galerie ( allée du figuier, 104 rue Oberkampf). La mostra, che aprirà al pubblico il 4 giugno (e chiuderà l'8 agosto), prevede due date di inaugurazione, ovvero martedì 2 giugno, per la serata collezionisti, e mercoledì 3 giugno, per il vernissage e lancio della rivista.
Gli altri fotografi esibiti sono: William Klein, Gérard Uféras, Steve McCurry, Franco Pagetti, Timothy Fadek.
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Journey throughout the Russian Caucasus by Davide Monteleone at Rome International Festival
Thursday, 04 June 2009

For a long time Davide Monteleone has been searching for a place of choice, a place to get to know, a territory to explore, where to work and, more simply, to learn how to examine. The chosen territory is the former USSR, where Davide began a multi-leg long and complex forming journey. Over the first part of his itinerary Davide has been in Russia, trying to catch its essence and the truth of the Russian soul (see the book “Dusha”, Postcart 2008). Then Monteleone began again to travel, moving East and South, visiting the outskirts of the former Empire (Abkhazia, Ossetia, Chechnya, Republic of Dagestan) in a documentation project of the Russian Caucasus. A selection of the images shot by Davide Monteleone are shown in the exhibition "Dall'anima al corpo - Viaggio nel Caucaso Russo" (i.e. “From soul to body – Journey throughout the Russia Caucasus) during Fotografia, Rome International Festival, at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, from May the 29th to August the 2nd 2009.


Abkhazia
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Football and racism by Alessandro Imbriaco on Sportweek
Monday, 01 June 2009
After the insults Balotelli suffered from Juventus supporters, the Federcalcio (Football Association) has changed some rules. But how many foreigner playing football in Italy have been or still are victims of racism? The images of the reportage have been shot by Alessandro Imbriaco for Sportweek.
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Copenhagen by Antonio Zambardino on Max
Monday, 01 June 2009
A city portrait on Denmark's capital town, where people smile and live a stressless life. They pay taxes and make use of operative facilities. The images of the feature have been shot by Antonio Zambardino for Max.
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Chinese youth by Marcello Bonfanti on Max
Monday, 01 June 2009
At last, also in Beijing the alternative music is getting a larger audience. Alternative Chinese youth can listen rock bands play live, mostly in the Mao Live nightclub. The images of the reportage have been shot by Marcello Bonfanti for Max.
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Stageurs by Simona Ghizzoni on Io Donna
Monday, 01 June 2009
The stage not intended as exploitation but as launching pad for youth. Ten important firms signed the Stageur's Bill of Rights and commited to hire at least 30% of their stageurs for at least 12 months. The portraits illustrating the article have been shot by Simona Ghizzoni for Io Donna.
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