Alex Majoli
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Alex Majoli is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) is an award-winning Italian photographer associated with Magnum Photos
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known for his documentation of war and conflict.
Career
Majoli joined the f45 studio in RavennaRavenna
Ravenna is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and the second largest comune in Italy by land area, although, at , it is little more than half the size of the largest comune, Rome...
at age 15 where he worked with Daniele Casadio and then studied at the Art Institute in Ravenna, graduating in 1991. While there he joined the Grazia Neri Agency for whom he traveled to Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
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, Kosovo
Kosovo
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, and Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
to document the conflict. In 199 he went to Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
and documented the closing of an insane asylum on Leros
Leros
Leros is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies 317 km from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 11-hour ferry ride . Leros is part of the Kalymnos peripheral unit...
and the reintroduction of the inmates to society. In 1995 he went to South America to work on his project Requiem in Samba and where he also worked on Hotel Marinum about port cities all over the world. In the late 1990s he also began making documentary films.
In 2001 he became a full member of Magnum Photos
Magnum Photos
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, at which time he also began documenting the Taliban in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
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and Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. He has contributed to such publications as Newsweek
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, The New York Times Magazine
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, Granta
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, Vanity Fair
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and National Geographic. In 2004 he created an exhibition, Off Broadway, along with Thomas Dworzak, Paolo Pellegrin
Paolo Pellegrin
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and Ilkka Uimonen, which was shown in SoHo
SoHo
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.
He lives in New York City
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and Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
. He has worked with Leica Cameras and Olympus Cameras.
Awards
- 2002/04 Several citations at the Picture of the Year International Award
- 2004, Honorable Mention, Leica Oskar Barnack Award
- 2004, Feature Photography Award, the Overseas Press ClubOverseas Press ClubThe Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member...
- 2004, Magazine Photographer of the Year, Best of Journalism Contest, National Press Photographers AssociationNational Press Photographers AssociationNPPA is the acronym for the National Press Photographers Association, founded in 1947. The organization is based in Durham, North Carolina and its mostly made up of still photographers, television videographers, editors, and students in the journalism field...
- 2003, Infinity Award for Photojournalism, the International Center of PhotographyInternational Center of PhotographyThe International Center of Photography is a photography museum, school, and research center in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States...
- 2002, Pesaresi Prize, Festival Foto
Exhibitions
- 2006, Leros Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- 2006, Mi manchi Magazino dello zolfo, Ravenna, Italy
- 2004, Leros, VeryTrolley Gallery, London, UK
- 2000, Leros, Ospedale Psichiatrico Paolo Pini, Milan, Italy
- 1999, Leros, Galleria Immagina, Venice, Italy
- 1999, Massacre, Radiosity Gallery, Milan, Italy
- 1998, Bambini, Palazzo Reale, Genova, Italy
- 1997, Slave, Casa do Olodum, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
- 1988, Pensiamoci stanotte, La Galleria, Ravenna, Italy