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National Geographic  - Stories from Ukraine's Refugees
Mar
10
to Mar 15

National Geographic  - Stories from Ukraine's Refugees

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Last week I was at Przemysl, on Polish - Ukrainian border, to document the stories of refugees fleeing from the Russian bombing.
On assignment for National Geographic, I spent several days in the company of shocked, unarmed people, most of them women and children, who had to leave everything overnight, not knowing if they will ever see again their homes and relatives.

This migratory flood has already been announced as the most intense of the last decades.
Hundreds of thousands of people already crossed that border, and no one knows how many others are to come.

A brief glimpse of the series I made can be found here on NatGeo's website, along with the stunning portraits and videos made by Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Alice Aedy, and Manuel Montesano.

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Fay Brand ADV - ongoing collaboration
Nov
6
1:30 PM13:30

Fay Brand ADV - ongoing collaboration

A new episode of my adv campaign for Fay Archive has been released.

This ongoing collaboration is part of a multimedia campaign to explore Fay’s versatile outerwear and its authentic workwear heritage. 
More episodes are about to be released.


To check out the complete series and the videos, visit Fay's website here.

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Mar
27
to Apr 3

100 photographers for Bergamo

A very important initiative promoted by Perimetro to help Pope Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo to face the Covid-19 emergency.
For a week you can help to enforce the intensive care unit by purchasing a print (or more) from the 100 photographs donated by the authors.
Here’s the website for more info or to browse the beautiful gallery of available photographs: https://perimetro.eu/100fotografiperbergamo/
Let’s keep strong!

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Noorderlicht Festival 2019
Oct
6
to Dec 1

Noorderlicht Festival 2019

Proud to announce that from October, 6th to December 1st, 2019, my project “A New Silk Road” is going to be part of the 26th edition of the Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, in Groeningen (NL). This year the festival examines the impact of social tensions created by international conglomerates with their vast accumulations of capital and their influence on national and global politics.

For more info please visit Noorderlicht Festival Website here.

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Mar
22
to Apr 4

"Spazi Ritratti + Medio Corso" at Officine Fotografiche Milano.

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"Spazi Ritratti + Medio Corso" at Officine Fotografiche Milano. Masterclass curated by Davide Monteleone, Luca Campigotto and Wu Ming2 and works by:

Jacob Balzani Loov, Jacopo Bellapianta, Cristian Bonanomi,Matteo Buonomo, Simone Cargnoni, Marlin Dedaj, Enrico Doria, Karim El Maktafi, Jessica Iovane, Alessia Maggio, Giulia Pasqualin, Niccolò Piuzzi, Giuseppe Bruni, Niccolò Cozzi, Andrea Crupi, Marlin Dedaj, Simon Fiorentino, Alessandro Morelli,
Davide Perbellini, Mandy Rietdijk, Alessandro Roncaglione, Giovanni Tamanza, Oscar Biffi, Mattia Cefis, Gabriele Galligani,Paolo Gravino, Andrea Migliorini, Danilo Pettinati, Vitalba Piazza, Stella Riva, Andrea Sciuto, Annalisa Toscani.

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The Stories of Migrants Risking Everything for a Better Life - TIME
Jan
24
to Feb 23

The Stories of Migrants Risking Everything for a Better Life - TIME

“Months of reporting by TIME correspondents around the world reveal a stubborn reality: we are living today in a global society increasingly roiled by challenges that can be neither defined nor contained by physical barriers”

“For this week’s cover story, TIME turned to Davide Monteleone to create a series of powerful black and white portraits that humanize the larger story of global migration. ” The Story Behind TIME’s “Beyond Walls” covers.

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Volga on National Geographic
Jul
13
to Aug 1

Volga on National Geographic

"Russia’s mighty Volga river stretches 2,193 miles (3,530 kilometers) from the northwest of Moscow down to the Caspian Sea in the south. It’s the country’s principle waterway and the historic cradle of the entire state. Along Volga’s banks, Ivan the Terrible began Russia’s expansion during the 16th century, the Battle of Stalingrad claimed over 1.5 million lives in Volgograd in the early 1940s, and Vladimir Lenin was born in 1870 in Ulyanovsk. And now, in 2018, four cities along this monumental stretch of water will host World Cupmatches.

While football fever may have consumed large parts of Russia during the tournament, Italian photographer Davide Monteleone, who spent 10 days exploring cities and towns along the Volga during the event, was most interested in the region’s deep-rooted culture and customs."  

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"Cursed Field" on Harper's Magazine
Mar
29
to Apr 8

"Cursed Field" on Harper's Magazine

"Reindeer were clustered on the ground, shaking and panting. Patches of their fur seemed to have fallen off, leaving them splotchy; the animals were emaciated, their ribs visible." A report by Noah Sneider and my photos on a mysterious illness affecting Russia’s reindeer on the April issue of Harper's Magazine. 

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"The April Theses" on Smithsonian Magazine
Feb
23
to Apr 4

"The April Theses" on Smithsonian Magazine

Part #1 of my coming work "The Aprile Theses" is on Smithsonian Magazine March issue. 

2017 marks the centennial of the Russian Revolution. In March 1917 Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov (LENIN) was leaving exiled in Zurich. Within eight months he assumed the leadership on 16000000 people occupying one-sixth of inhabited surface of the world. On April 9th 1917, with the support of German authorities, at that time in war with Russia, he travelled back to his own country on a train across Germany, Sweden and Finland to reach Finland Station in St. Petersburg on April 17th where he started the step to Soviet Power. 100 year later I retraced and reacted, in a surreal and unorthodox journalistic way,  sometime acting myself  the role of an hypothetical Lenin, the real and non-invented Lenin’s journey on the base of archival documents and historical books including “To Finland Station” by Edmund Wilson and “The sealed train” by Michael Pearson. Part#2 of the work will be based on my research of the documents at the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History and Lenin's Library in Moscow. Coming soon...

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