Ernesto Bazan
Ernesto Bazan (* 1959 in Palermo , Italy ) is an Italian photographer .
Life
Bazan, born in Palermo in 1959, went to New York in 1979 to study photography at the School of Visual Arts. In 1982 he became a member of the Magnum Photos photo agency , which he left two years later. In 1982 he published Il passato perpetuo , a project about the Italian-American community in New York. In 1993 his second book Passing through was published . From 1992 to 2006 he lived mostly in Cuba and documented an important phase in Cuban history: El Periodo Especial. Bazan's photos have been exhibited in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
Awards
- 1998: W. Eugene Smith Prize
- 1995: Mother Jones Award
- 1995: World Press Photo Award 1st prize, Daily Life stories
- 1982: Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles
- Two grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Alicia Patterson Foundation
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ David Gonzalez: Another Cuba, a Different Fidel. The New York Times , June 8, 2011, accessed June 18, 2011 .
- ^ World Press Photo
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bazan, Ernesto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo , Italy |