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Marco Gualazzini

GIRLS OF MOGADISHU ARE HEADING BACK TO THE BEACH
About Marco Gualazzini

Born in Parma in 1976, Marco Gualazzini began his career as a photographer in 2004,
with his home town’s local daily, La Gazzetta di Parma.
His works include reportage photography on microfinance in India, on the freedom of
expression in Myanmar, and on the discrimination of minorities in Pakistan.
He devised and took part in the creation of a documentary for the Italian national TV
network RAI on the caste system in India, which has been selected at IDFA- The
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and has been awarded the Best
Camera Work Award at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival.
For the last few years, he has been covering Africa extensively, focusing his work on
conflict, humanitarian crises and climate change.
Gualazzini published in national and international titles and he has received numerous
accolades, including the Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, the PDN and in
2019 he was awarded the first prize at the World Press Photo in the environment category
with his work on the Lake Chad Basin humanitarian crisis that is among the most severe
in the world.

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    While Haiti continues to struggle to recover from the catastrophic earthquake that hit in 2010, these photos highlight encouraging, individual efforts that, in sum, demonstrate the reawakening of a damaged, but hopeful, nation.
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