I'm thrilled to announce that the Cobalt Chapter from the "Critical Minerals - Geography of Energy” project has been selected as a finalist at the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards.
An image of my long-term project "Sinomocene" has been included in Prix Pictet's publication "Human", a selection of outstanding photographs by both shortlisted and non-shortlisted nominees that best reflect the current cycle's theme.
Published by Hatje Cantz the publication includes a foreword by Sir David King, Chairman of the Prix Pictet Jury, together with essays by David Christian & Meehan Crist.
I’m honoured to announce that my proposal “Critical Minerals and Energy Switch” received a two-year grant from the National Geographic Society. The project is a multichapter and collaborative visual investigation into the roots of the new industrial revolution underway: the switch to renewable energy. The initial part of the project will focus on the geopolitical, social and environmental implications of skyrocketing demand for critical minerals necessary to archive renewable energy’s goal.
The ”Sinomocene” project, already supported by National Geographic Society, is selected among the finalists for the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) 2020.
“In his “Sinomocene” series, the Italian photographer (born 1974) explores the impact produced by the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which reflects China’s growing presence around the globe. Spanning four continents, the project is documented photographically on location in - among other places - Ethiopia, Djibouti, Italy, Cambodia and Kazakhstan.”
The two winners (main and newcomers) will be announced October 22nd.
The New East Photo Prize celebrates contemporary photography from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia and Central Asia.
The New East Photo Prize champions artistic excellence in photography. The prize recognises practitioners offering representations of the social, cultural and physical landscape of the New East and other perspectives on that region.
I have been selected as one of 2019 / 2020 National Geographic's storytelling fellows. In the next year, I will join the NatGeo Explorer Network and travel all around the five continents to complete my visual investigation about the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.
The upcoming project “Almost Automated Ladscape of Geopolitical Interest” was among the finalist of the 2019 BMW Residency.
“A New Silk Road” has been nominated for the theme for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet. Hope – a theme that offers a wide range of creative possibilities and a strong set of connections to the Prix Pictet’s overriding theme of sustainability. Hope in the face of adversity. Recycling. Reforestation. Rewilding. Science – advances in medicine – and technological solutions for global environmental problems. Falling poverty levels. It is time to examine some of the positive actions on sustainability that are beginning to emerge by contrast with the alarming analysis that constantly assails us in the global media.
The next shortlist will be announced at Les Rencontres d’Arles in July 2019 and the winner at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in November 2019.
The series "A New Silk Road" is among the finalist of KAUNAS PHOTO START 2018.
"Silk Ambitions" 2017. Installation 14 prints 20x24 and silk wire.
"A New Silk Road" is among the finalist of the PH grant 2018.
"Silk Ambitions", 2017. Installation 14prints 20x25 and silk wire.
Davide Monteleone’s series Spasibo depicts the perplexing political reality in Chechnya, a Russian republic bordering the Caucasus Mountains and plagued with a complex history of conflict. For more than two centuries, the predominantly Muslim Chechens have struggled to assert independence. They have in turn endured mass deportation under Stalin; prolonged civil war between separatists and Russia, as well as with local Moscow-backed authorities; organized crime; and abuses of religious and civil rights. Monteleone’s outspoken authorship of these photographs entails considerable personal risk. His ability to document this subject without arriving at clichés of violence and oppression is a considerable achievement.
Judiciously edited, Spasibo comprises studied representations of the Chechen context. Portraits and tableaux coincide with landscapes and objects photographed as if for an archive. These varied photographic strategies share common formal threads: a muted gray pervades the series, and each image is purposefully and resolutely composed. By linking disparate images—a reproduction of the Chechen constitution and a portrait of the devout praying toward Mecca; the mountain refuge of separatist rebels and a plate bearing the portrait of Putin-approved Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, himself a reformed ex-rebel—Monteleone conveys the disconcerting normalcy that reigns in Chechnya following the intense trauma of its recent past.
https://aperture.org/2014-winners/runner-davide-monteleone/
Italian Davide Monteleone won the 2011 European Publisher’s prize for photography awarded by five European photo-editors. For many years his beat was the countries of the northern Caucasus (Chechnya, South Ossetia, Georgia, Abkhazia, Dagestan, etc.) as they tried to cope with the collapse of the ex-Soviet Union. His work, focusing on consequences of the different conflicts and upheavals of the twentieth century’s end in regions stressed not only by a strong ethnic and religious diversity but also by powerful geopolitical stakes, manages to restore a sense of the complexity as well as the fragility of peoples and situations in the face of new and unstable frontiers that recent history has drawn, most often by force.
https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/expositions/view/609/davide-monteleone
My latest book “Red Thistle” has won the 2011 European Publishers Award for Photography.
ISBN: 1907893164
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Hardcover : 128 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 0 x 0 x 0 inches
“Dusha, Russian Soul” has won the 2nd Prize for the Best Book of the year, at the IPA awards 2008.
