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MICHELE BORZONI
Michele Borzoni was born in 1979 in Florence, Italy. He graduated in 2006 at the International Center of Photography in the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program. In 2006 he attended the Eddie Adams Workshop, Barnstorm XIX. His work has been awarded with the First Prize Yann Geffroy Award 2007 with his work “Srebrenica, struggle for justice”, the New York Times Scholarship for ICP students, and in 2009 he received the Tierney Fellowship. In 2010 he won the first prize of the World Press Photo in the People in the News singles category. From 2006 he has been working with Italian and international magazines among with D della Repubblica, Vanity Fair, Magazine, Elle, Io Donna, Newsweek, Marie Claire France, Newsweek, Internazionale, L’Espresso, Financial Times Magazine, Amica, Le Monde2, Geo and others.
SIMONE DONATI
Simone Donati (1977) was born in Florence, Italy, where he lives and works. In 2005 he completed the three-year course in photography at the Studio Marangoni in Florence. After an internship at the Magnum Photos agency in NYC, in 2006 he started working in the field of documentary photography. During the past years his attention has focused on the political and social situation of Italy. Simone was awarded the honorable mention at the Yann Geffroy Award in 2007 and was selected as one of the three finalists in the portrait category of the 2008 Sony World Photography Awards. He received the 3rd place at the Ponchielli prize in 2010 with his long term project “Welcome to Berlusconistan”. His photographs have been part of solo and group shows in Italy and abroad and have been published in the main italian and international magazines, among which Le Monde Magazine, Newsweek and Newsweek Japan, L’Espresso, Internazionale, Vanity Fair Italy, GEO Italy and Monocle. He is one of the founding members of the collective TerraProject, since 2006 working on social, political and environmental issues in Italy and abroad.
PIETRO PAOLINI
Pietro Paolini was born in Florence in 1981. He graduated from the three years course at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence in 2005. From 2004 started his interest for the South American reality, focusing on the new socialist countries, Venezuela and Bolivia. In Italy, at the same time, he developed an ongoing experience inside the italian underground scene between squats, street art and raves. He explored different devices, audio and video, collaborating with heterogeneous working groups. His photographs are exposed in Italy and abroad, and he worked for magazines like Vanity Fair, Io Donna, D di repubblica, Magazine del Corriere and Newsweek. From september 2007 he's a member of the collective TerraProject. He was awarded with the scholarship at the “Canon prize for young photographers 2009”.
ROCCO RORANDELLI
Rocco Rorandelli was born in Florence (1973). His interest in photography commenced at an early age, but it wasn’t until completing his doctoral studies in Biology that he decided to commit to his lifelong passion. Having developed a profound interest in social and environmental issues, he has portrayed stories from Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and his work has been exhibited in Italy, Germany; Spain, Switzerland, U.S., China. His images have been utilized in numerous advertising, fundraising and awareness campaigns of various social (Terre des hommes, UniCOOP) and academic institutions in the U.S. (Cornell Univ., Sarah Lawrence Coll.). Among his editorial clients TIME, Paris Match, L'Hebdo, Guardian Review, D di Repubblica, L'Espresso, Vanity Fair, Io Donna, Corriere della Sera Magazine, Newsweek. He had been shortlisted at Sony World Photography awards 2010 and is a Honorable Mention recipient of PX3 2008. He is one of the founding members of the collective TerraProject.
