EMOTIONS TO GENERATE CHANGE


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PHOTOGRAPHERS' BIOS

Asaf Ud Daula

He is a Bangladeshi photographer, engineer, lover of nature and people. His expertise lies in seeing the invisible through his lens. He is a traveller who loves to capture the moments of beauty and emotion in people’s faces. He always tries to represent his culture and nation through photography. He loves playing with children. The smile of the little angels captures his soul and he too smiles like a child. Awarded by National Geographic and as ‘World’s Best Green Photographer’ by Forbes.

Ferran Paredes Rubio

After studying photography at the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya, he started working as a photojournalist for several Spanish newspapers, including La Vanguardia and El País. Since 1988 he has been a photographer for the Reuters agency. In 2003 he graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, and since 2006 he has been director of photography for numerous short, documentary and feature films, mainly Italian, including Indivisibili, for which he received a nomination for the David di Donatello for Best Cinematographer.

Francesca Larrain – Fran7Films

Francesca Larrain is a lead American filmmaker, artist, and drone Pilot. She is the founder of the Florida based aerial photography and videography company called Fran7Films. Fran7films has experience in a wide scope of interests ranging from wildlife conservation to surfing. The inspiration behind Fran7films arose from Francesca’s passion for filming the ocean and nature’s elements. Her goal is to inspire people to connect with God’s creation and see things from a new perspective.

Giampaolo Calzà

Giampiero has passion in describing the territory. The passion for the mountains at the beginning, then for everything that makes him curious. Climber, mountaineer and mountain guide. The passion for photography was born with his first trip, in which he brought a manual reflex camera, then a continuous passion for clicking. He has always had the desire to convey emotions! Both by going to the mountains and accompanying people to experience them. Photography is the tool to make it even more available to everyone. If he had to summarize what he wants from photography: “One word, IMAGINE, being able to convey the emotion of the moment”

NeŞe Arı

Istanbul born, self-taught photographer. The ability to capture the moment from her own perspective has turned photography, which started as a hobby, into a part of her life. She carries out documentaries, travels, and street photography in Turkey and around the world. Nese Arı is currently working on her social responsibility project, which she started six years ago with the hope of raising awareness in society about the lives of people with special needs. Throughout this time, she organized many exhibitions and given many lectures at various universities. She has won numerous national and international prizes, held several exhibitions and lectures at various universities and festivals. Her works have been published in newspapers such as The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian.

Raffaele Merler

Born and raised in Trentino, Italy, 35 years old. I have always traveled a lot with my family; I have always been able to experiment freely with what I felt. Always on a quest, photography has been the means life gave me to make my life a creative journey. Grateful and fortunate for the experiences I have had with my family, as a couple, in travel, in work, I feel incredibly welcomed and accompanied in this earthly journey. I love to observe and question; our very nature makes me very curious. I rejoice in finding connections between what surrounds me and what moves within my being. I find great peace when these two aspects harmonize. We are wonderful creatures, with access to infinite dimensions of our being. All it takes is to recognise this, and thank for this fabulous opportunity.

Sebastiano Rossitto

Born in Belgium in 1984 and raised in Rome, he approached photography from a very young age. In 2005, he studied audiovisual techniques at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome. In 2006, he began his career as a filmmaker for major television production companies and major Italian networks. He later made many documentaries also as a D.o.P. specializing in the most advanced shooting and workflow techniques. His work has been influenced by traveling and discovering new realities that allow him to capture a variety of perspectives and expand his horizons as a filmmaker and photographer, updating his skills and technical abilities through constant experimentation. He has visited over forty countries in Europe, Asia and Central America, discovering deep cultures that have shaped his photographic style and influenced his artistic sensibility.

Vassilis Ikoutas

He was born on the island of Rhodes in Greece. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence (1996-2001) with a specialisation in Decoration, he studied painting, sculpture, decoration, photography and engraving. He has been taking photographs since an early age. He works in still life, fashion, portrait, street and travel photography. He participated in various photo competitions and exhibitions both in Greece and abroad. Vassilis lives and works in Rhodes.