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Roadkill in Alaska by Antonio Zambardino on VSD
Monday, 22 February 2010
Every year in Alaska about two hundred moose are run over by drivers. Generally most of the accidents happen in winter: short visibility and frozen roads cause about daily crashes. In the popular American culture, such phenomenon is called “roadkill”.
In Alaska the sale of moose meet is illegal, this is the reason why the roadkills are distributed to poor or emarginated families, or to associations taking care of the homeless.
The reportage shot by Antonio Zambardino has been published by VSD.
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Alessandro Matri by Alessandro Imbriaco on Sportweek
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Alessandro Matri, forward of Cagliari football club, is one of the most pleasant surprises in the Italian championship.
The images have been shot by Alessandro Imbriaco for Sportweek.
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Pigneto by Tommaso Bonaventura on Io Donna
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Pigneto is one of Rome's neighborhoods most inhabited by youth, both immigrants and Italians.
The images have been shot by Tommaso Bonaventura for Io Donna.
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Benin by Marta Sarlo on Io Donna
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Every year in Benin about forty thousand children are sold as servants or mine workers. Each of them is sold for 40 euros.
Marta Sarlo's reportage has been shot for Io Donna.
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The New Burlesque by Cesare Cicardini on Io Donna
Saturday, 13 February 2010
The New Burlesque is a kind of show born in the second half of the XIX century, in the Victorian England. Even then, the protagonist of the Burlesque was a woman very scantly dressed.
Such genre had its golden age in the Forties and Fifties thanks to Burlesque stars such as Tempest Storm, Dixie Evans and others who knew how to ironically undress.
The essential features for a Burlesque artist is her sensuality, her charisma, her liveliness and mostly her complicity with the audience. For Burlesque dancers, beauty is important but is not everything.
The reportage by Cesare Cicardini has been published on Io Donna.
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Alessandro Pittin by Carlos Jones on Sportweek
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Alessandro Pittin, 20 years old, also known as "Pittbull", is going to take part to his second Olympic Games, in Vancouver. The portrait shot by Carlos Jones has been realized for Sportweek.
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Alessandro Imbriaco wins the 2nd prize in the Contemporary Issues at WPP
Friday, 12 February 2010
Today in Amsterdam they announced the winners of the most prestigious photography award, the World Press Photo.
Sensational success of Italy as ten Italian photographers have been awarded, first prize (photo of the year) included, by Pietro Masturzo.
Contrasto's Alessandro Imbriaco has won the 2nd prize in the "Contemporary Issues stories" with his feature on Casilino 900 nomad camp.


c) Alessandro Imbriaco - Casilino 900 nomad camp
TB in Sudan by Riccardo Venturi on Internazionale
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Riccardo Venturi has documented the TB in Sudan, one of the countries hardest affected by a humanitarian crisis in the whole world.
The ten-year conflict between North and South of the country seemed at the end in 2005, after the Sudanese Government drew up a peace treaty with Sudan People's Liberation Army (the main rebel group of South Sudan). Instead, the fear of an exclusive partition of the power by one of these two forces increases the violences in Darfur.
In this difficult context of conflicts and civil wars, health assistance is one of the emergencies of the country.
This reportage, shot in collaboration with the WHO, has been published by Internazionale.
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Earthquake in Haiti by Emiliano Larizza on Het Financieele Dagblad
Monday, 08 February 2010
On Jan. 12th, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti killing more than 200,000 people. The documentation of the tragedy by Emiliano Larizza has been published by Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad.
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Fondo Fucile by Massimo Siragusa on Abitare
Friday, 05 February 2010
Fondo Fucile spreads just outside the city’s downtown, surrounded by council houses. It is one of the three shantytowns in Messina.
Huts are divided by narrow alleys. Floors flaking off. Very few windows. Bathrooms without wastepipes. Asbestos roofs.
Fondo Fucile has been built in the postwar period, and nowadays it houses 146 families.
The images of the reportage by Massimo Siragusa have been published by Abitare.
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Impersonators of Mao by Tommaso Bonaventura on Volkskrant
Friday, 05 February 2010
In China there are actors specialized in impersonating Mao Zedong. They take advantage of a physical resemblance that is sometimes extraordinary, yet they spend several years studying the movements, the language, the calligraphy and the poetries written by the Great Steersman, trying to absorb as much as possible from his personality. This identification process goes so in depth that often it isn’t clear where the actor’s personality ends and the character’s one begins.
The reportage by Tommaso Bonaventura, realized in collaboration with journalist Ivan Franceschini, has been published on Volkskrant.
Earthquake in Haiti by Emiliano Larizza on L'Espresso
Monday, 01 February 2010
On Jan. 12th, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti killing more than 200,000 people. The documentation of the tragedy by Emiliano Larizza has been published by L'Espresso.
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Villaggio Crespi d'Adda by Fabio Cuttica on GEO
Monday, 01 February 2010
In the Adda Valley is set an outstanding ideal city built by an entrepreneur  at the end of the 19th Century: it is the Villaggio Crespi D'Adda, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The images of the reportage have been shot by Fabio Cuttica for  GEO.
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UN by Alessandro Cosmelli on D - La Repubblica delle Donne
Monday, 01 February 2010
At the UN headquarters in New York there are about 4,000 people employed of 192 different nationalities.
The images shot by Alessandro Cosmelli have been assigned by D - La Repubblica delle Donne.
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