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Critical Minerals as the cover story of National Geographic Italia
Apr
4
12:30 PM12:30
Publication

Critical Minerals as the cover story of National Geographic Italia

Excited to share my latest publication, Critical Minerals - Geography of Energy, featured as the cover story in the April issue of National Geographic Italia!

This feature deeply delves into the overlooked territories where vital minerals are extracted—resources at the heart of the global shift toward cleaner energy. Yet, behind this push for sustainability, we uncover a web of environmental and human challenges that are too often ignored.

You can read the full story (in Italian) on National Geographic’s website or find it in the print edition.

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Nov
20
7:00 PM19:00
Assignment, Publication

National Geographic - The Pictures of the Year 2024

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I am proud to announce that one of my images has been selected for the National Geographic Picture of the Year issue, a format that summarizes the finest work of hundreds of NatGeo photographers on the field.

This year’s feature is about my series about the DAWN project, in Germany. The image represents a synthetic fluid, made using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, that has the potential to replace fossil fuels. It could be used to power trucks, ships, and planes without retrofitting. In June, Swiss company Synhelion opened the world’s first industrial-scale plant to produce the energy alternative.


Check it out at this link.

To read the full story, please visit NG’s website here.

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Nov
19
11:00 AM11:00
Review, Publication

Critical Minerals on "Altre Storie" - Mario Calabresi's newsletter

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“L’energia pulita è un sogno e una necessità, ma dietro la transizione verde ci sono anche costi sociali e danni ambientali che non conosciamo e che nessuno ci mostra. Il fotografo Davide Monteleone per due anni ha viaggiato nel mondo per raccontare le storie delle materie prime che stanno scrivendo il nostro futuro".”

Grazie a Mario Calabresi. che ha dedicato la sua newsletter settimanale a Critical Minerals, parlando del progetto attraverso un’analisi articolata e attenta.

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Oct
14
1:00 PM13:00
Award, Publication

Critical Minerals published on LFI Special Edition

As the 2024 winner project, Critical Minerals - Geography of Energy will be featured in LFI Special Edition magazine, available for purchase at this link.

Preface – Karin Rehn-Kaufmann
Winner 2024
Davide Monteleone: Critical Minerals – Geography of Energy
Newcomer 2024
Maria Guţu: Homeland
Shortlist:
Forough Alaei: Underneath the Calm Streets of Iran
Anush Babajanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh War and Exodus
Emily Garthwaite: Tears of the Tigris
Ksenia Ivanova: Between the Trees of the South Caucasus
Lucas Lenci: Inattention Era
Adriana Loureiro Fernández: Paradise Lost
Sara Meneses Cuapio: Raízhambre
Tong Niu: Express Delivery
Ingmar Björn Nolting: An Anthology of Changing Climate
Etinosa Yvonne: It’s All in my Head

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Removing CO2 - WE Magazine
Sep
4
to Oct 4
Publication

Removing CO2 - WE Magazine

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La questione e urgente e pressante: può la tecnologia aiutarci a risolvere la crisi climatica? Davide monteleone ha provato a rispondere a questa domanda, intraprendendo numerosi viaggi in tutta l'europa con il suo team per visitare alcune delle principali istituzioni nel campo delle tecnologie ccus (cattura e stoccaggio del carbonio), che puntano sulla rimozione della co2 dall'atmosfera per contribuire a combattere il riscaldamento globale. Nelle strutture visitate nel corso del reportage si sono viste differenti soluzioni possibili: grandi macchine che estraggono co2 dall'aria, impianti dove l'anidride carbonica viene iniettata nel sottosuolo e contenitori sottomarini che permettono di immagazzinarla sotto il fondale marino. Alcune aziende, inoltre, hanno trovato un modo per riciclare la co, mentre altre coltivano microalghe per assorbirila.

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Jul
10
3:30 PM15:30
Publication, Video

"A Modern Odyssey" featured on Newsroom, RAI

An excerpt from my documentary about the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk (Russia) to Huanghua (China) has been featured on the Italian TV broadcast “Newsroom”. Back in 2012, I embarked on a cargo ship named Nordic Odyssey to follow the Nordic route for commerce, now viable only because of the ice-melting that allows ships to go through a once-impassable way: a tangible effect of climate change.

The episode can be seen at this link.

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DAWN project series on National Geographic Website
Jun
26
4:00 PM16:00
Assignment, Publication

DAWN project series on National Geographic Website

A few weeks ago, on assignment for National Geographic, I spent a couple of days in Julich, Germany, documenting the official introduction of the DAWN project, the world’s first industrial solar fuel facility.
Synhelion, an innovative spin-off company from ETH Zurich, created the plant to convert CO2 into sustainable fuels, aiming to decarbonize the transportation sector.
Currently in the commissioning phase, DAWN will start producing solar fuels in 2024. The first fuel batches will showcase the potential across various transportation sectors. Looking ahead, Synhelion plans to build a commercial solar fuel plant in Spain by 2025, with a capacity of 1,000 tons of solar fuel per year.

The series is now released on the National Geographic Website. 
To read the full article, please click here.

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National Geographic Magazine - France
Oct
26
to Dec 31
Publication

National Geographic Magazine - France

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The French edition of National Geographic has got in touch to create a “Behind the scenes” insert, in which they asked me to tell the story behind one of the pictures of my series about Carbon Removal. It was fun to retrace the process which led to the creation of one of the most curious images in the project. 

Click here to read the full article.

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Sinomocene on NZZ
Aug
27
to Sep 15
Publication, Review

Sinomocene on NZZ

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“Vor bald zehn Jahren startete China seine Belt-and-Road-Initiative. Viel beschrieben, bleibt sie schwer greifbar. Der italienische Fotograf Davide Monteleone dokumentiert die physische Seite des Megaprojekts.”

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"Almost ten years ago, China launched its Belt and Road Initiative. Much described, it remains elusive. Italian photographer Davide Monteleone documents the physical side of the mega-project."


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Sinomocene on The Guardian by Ai Weiwei
Mar
31
10:30 AM10:30
Review, Publication

Sinomocene on The Guardian by Ai Weiwei

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“The landscapes in Davide Monteleone’s images of China’s belt and road initiative are very familiar to me. We can see desert, uninhabited wasteland and views along the Yangtze River and in north-west China. There are also photographs showing the characters “Stay strong, Wuhan!” on skyscrapers in neon lights.

Ai Weiwei

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Sinomocene's Cambodian Chapter on M - Le Monde
Feb
14
to Feb 19
Publication, Review

Sinomocene's Cambodian Chapter on M - Le Monde

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“The Italian photographer Davide Monteleone has spent nearly twenty years in Russia. It was there, on the eastern border, that he observed the beginnings of the Chinese "New Silk Roads" initiative announced by President Xi Jinping in 2013. A pharaonic investment of $1,000 billion aimed at strengthening the Middle Kingdom's presence in the world, through maritime, road and rail infrastructures. railways. A geopolitical enthusiast, the 48-year-old photographer three times awarded the prestigious World Press prize (2007, 2009 and 2011), embarked in 2014, in a vast enterprise of documentation of the impacts of this expansion. A project for which he received a grant from the National Geography Storytelling Fellows in 2019.”

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Sinomocene - New Aiddata Report
Sep
29
to Oct 9
Publication

Sinomocene - New Aiddata Report

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I spent several years working on a project about Chinese’s economic footprints with the support, among others, of the National Geographic Society. While the whole project is just starting to be distributed, it is interesting to read the newest report by Aiddata accompanied by a couple of pictures from my project.

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Future of Aviation for National Geographic Magazine
Sep
23
to Oct 23
Publication

Future of Aviation for National Geographic Magazine

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"How Green, how soon?"

This is the question I tried to answer in my latest contribution to National Geographic Magazine about the latest development in the aviation industry. "Aviation can go green, but not soon and no comprehensively as ground-bound transport. Gravity is a very stubborn thing," wrote Sam Howe Verhovek. If you want to discover more, visit National Geographic Online or get the Magazine's current issue.

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