Alessandro Grassani (b.1977, Italy) graduates in
photography at the Riccardo Bauer Institute of Milano, where he lives.
His
work has appeared in numerous international publications including Sunday
Times, New York Times, Time, El Pais, Foreign Policy, Der Spiegel, Mare, Vanity
Fair, Internazionale, D of La Repubblica and Sette of Corriere della Sera.
Grassani’s corporate clients have included Enel SPA, Lufthansa, Ferrovie dello Stato (the Italian
State railway company), CommerzBank and ICE(Italian foreign
trade institution).
He goes to Albania in the period of the landslide of the pyramidal societies and the clandestine immigration towards Italy, travels in the Balkans, around South America, Asia and Middle East, covering international events and stories in more than 30 countries in the world. In 2004 with the funeral of Yasser Arafat he started to cover the ongoing conflicts in Israel and Palestine. He is in the Gaza Strip before and during the clearing out of the colonies and again returns after the Hamas election victory and the military operation by the Israelis called “Summer Rain”. He also works in Iran, where he goes for the first time at the end of 2003 to record the effects of the Bam earthquake. He returns many times after the election victory of the conservative president Ahmadinejad: he investigates the situation of the Hebrew-Iranian Jews and he works on a long-term project about the complex Iranian society. In 2011 he begins a new long-term project entitled “Environmental migrants: the last illusion” documenting around the world the life of the people forced to migrate because of climate changes and with no alternative to the illusion of a better life in the city.
He goes to Albania in the period of the landslide of the pyramidal societies and the clandestine immigration towards Italy, travels in the Balkans, around South America, Asia and Middle East, covering international events and stories in more than 30 countries in the world. In 2004 with the funeral of Yasser Arafat he started to cover the ongoing conflicts in Israel and Palestine. He is in the Gaza Strip before and during the clearing out of the colonies and again returns after the Hamas election victory and the military operation by the Israelis called “Summer Rain”. He also works in Iran, where he goes for the first time at the end of 2003 to record the effects of the Bam earthquake. He returns many times after the election victory of the conservative president Ahmadinejad: he investigates the situation of the Hebrew-Iranian Jews and he works on a long-term project about the complex Iranian society. In 2011 he begins a new long-term project entitled “Environmental migrants: the last illusion” documenting around the world the life of the people forced to migrate because of climate changes and with no alternative to the illusion of a better life in the city.
Alessandro Grassani nasce a Pavia nel 1977, si laurea in
fotografia presso l'Istituto Riccardo Bauer di Milano, città dove vive. Inizia
a lavorare come fotografo nel settore della pubblicità. Con il tempo la sua
attenzione si è spostata verso una fotografia di approfondimento e indagine su
importanti tematiche sociali che l’hanno portato a lavorare dal Sud America
all’Asia, dal medio Oriente all’ Europa afflitta dalla crisi finanziaria,
viaggiando per oltre 30 Paesi e pubblicando i suoi reportage sulle principali
testate giornalistiche internazionali, tra gli altri, The New York Times,
Sunday Times, Sette del Corriere della Sera, Vanity Fair e Internazionale.
Attualmente sta lavorando a un
nuovo progetto a lungo termine chiamato “Environmental migrants: the
last illusion”, documentando in diversi Paesi, la vita di chi –
a causa dei cambiamenti climatici - è costretto a lasciare la campagna per
emigrare in città.
I suoi lavori sono stati
esposti in mostre personali e collettive in Italia, Londra, Madrid, Tokyo, New
York, Parigi e ai Recontres d’ Arles e sono stati premiati al Sony
World Photography Awards, Days Japan International Awards, Luis Valtuena
Humanitarian Photography Award, PX3 International Awards, Premio Lucchetta-Miran
Hrovatin, IPA International Photography Awards e hanno ricevuto una
menzione d’onore al Memorial Mario Giacomelli, premio Amilcare Ponchielli
e premio FNAC.
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