Excited to share that I’ve been interviewed in the latest issue of Tutti Fotografi, where I talk about my work, my approach to reportage, and the evolution of my projects—from Critical Minerals to Dusha.
Thrilled to announce that my project Critical Minerals: The Geography of Energy is featured in a 24-page publication in the latest issue of GEO Germany!
Critical Minerals MUDEC exhibition review on National Geographic Italia
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.
Sinomocene will be on display at Ragusa Photo Festival from July 20th to August 27th, 2023.
For more info, please visit the festival's website here.
December cover story on the future of mobility for Wired Italia.
My work about the epic journey on the Nordic Odyssey cargo ship has been published in Le Chasse Marée magazine.
Interview by Eefje Ludwig on Lensculture about The April Theses
As one of the shortlisted artists for Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2020, I have been invited to the group show “People and Place: Leica Oskar Barnack Award 40th Anniversary”, to be held soon at Shanghai Center of Photography.
A selection of images from my ongoing project, Sinomocene, will be on show from November 28, 2020
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.
Fondation Carmignac is pleased to present “Carmignac Photojournalism Award: 10 Years of Reportage”, on view from July 4 to November 1, 2020 at the Villa Carmignac on the Island of Porquerolles.
My portrait of Russian blogger Alexander Gorbunov (alias @StalinGULAG on twitter) for the latest issue of Time’s “Next Generation Leaders” issue.
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.
i have donated works to Art on Postcard to help raise money for the Hepatitis C Trust. My photograph will be exhibited anonymously alongside over 575 others at Photo London (16-19 MAY 2019). Auction runs 8-22nd May on Paddle8.
A selection of my pictures will be exhibited during the MIA Photo Fair in Milan starting on March 21st at:
The Mall, Piazza Lina Bo Bardi 1, Milano.
Albertina and Yaquelin Contreras, a mother and daughter who were separated for nearly six weeks by U.S. authorities in 2018 to have entered the country from Mexico attended the State of The Union. Senator Jeff Merkley, who invited them, have seen their potrtait on the cover of feb. 2019 Time Magazine. Albertina, 27, and her daughter, who turns 12 on Feb. 5, were featured on TIME magazine’s Feb. 4 cover as part of a special report on global migration, to which I contributed with my portraits.
“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 diptych Platinum Print "Traces on the Flaming Mountains", 2017 and the installation of 13 photograph "Silk Ambition" 2017, both part of the series "A New Silk Road" initially featured as a portfolio in the pages of The New Yorker, will be on show at Heillandi Gallery boots during Photo London.
LONDON, 17-20 MAY 2018 SOMERSET HOUSE.
"Traces on the Flaming Mountains" 2017. Diptych platinum print 76x56cm ed.5.
"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.
My latest together with Noah Sneider for The Economist about the Russian teens. "Those born the year Mr Putin first came to power. They will all have spent their entire lives in Putin’s Russia, and will be eligible to vote for the first time this year. that grow up under Putin presidency"
“War is Only Half the Story” is a ten-year retrospective of the work of the groundbreaking documentary photography program, The Aftermath Project, which for a decade has supported post-conflict storytelling by some of the world’s best photographers. As a grant-making educational non-profit, The Aftermath Project was founded to help change the way the media covers conflict – and to educate the public about the true cost of war and the real price of peace.
The project "One of..." will be exhibited in occasion of the MEDPHOTO Festival at Museum of Contemporary Art, Rethymno, in Crete from 13 January – 20 March 2018.
"In the fall, the photographer Davide Monteleone traced stretches of one of the land routes, travelling from Yiwu, in the southeastern province of Zhejiang, to Khorgos, home to one of the world’s largest dry ports, and to Aktau, in Kazakhstan, on the Caspian Sea."
During the Photo Vogue Festival in Milan (15-19 November 2017) I will show two of my recent project "In The Russian East" and "The April Theses" in an exhibition curated by Heillandi Gallery.
Dal 16 al 29 novembre - SPAZIO FONDO MALERBA
via Alberto Mario, angolo via Monte Rosa – 20149 Milano
Orari: Inaugurazione, giovedì 16 novembre, ore 18 – 21.30 venerdì 17 : dalle 14 alle 20.30 sabato 18 e domenica 19 : dalle 11 alle 19.00 dal 20 al 29: su appuntamento, chiamando al +41 91 921 11 oppure scrivendo a info@heillandigallery.ch
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Lenin Lives, co-curated by Lia Newman, Gallery Director/Curator, and Roman Utkin, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies, explores the afterlife of one of the most enduring and spectacular personality cults of modern history – the worship of the first Soviet leader, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – Lenin (1870-1924). As the myth of the immortal Lenin developed, the image of the Revolution’s iconic leader became, not ironically, larger than life. For the rest of the tumultuous twentieth century, Lenin came to embody the idea of communism and the Revolution itself.
Join me for the book signing of "The April Theses" in Arles during Les Rencontres. Postcart stand at COSMOS BOOK ARLES 2017.
My latest book "The April Theses" L. E. version is available for pre-order. First 50 copies of the 100 available were sold in the first week. Get your copy now!
Davide Monteleone's portfolio win the first prize at CodiceMIA judged by an outstanding jury of collector. "his work was recognized for his distinguished representation of complex social and political scenes with a very particular and focused vision."
