Riccardo Venturi

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Riccardo Venturi (* 1966 in Rome ) is an Italian press photographer .

Life

His interest in photography began in his last school years and led to studies at the Istituto Superiore di Fotografia in Rome.

Photojournalist

His work as a photojournalist began in the late 1980s and covered mainly national and European - mainly social - topics. In the 1990s his work led to a more international orientation.

His projects in the early 1990s dealt, among other things, with the situation in Albania after the communist era , child prostitution in Thailand and skinheads in Germany . In the mid-1990s his attention was mainly drawn to armed conflict, for example, he works in Afghanistan , Kosovo , Sierra Leone , Burundi , Somalia , Liberia , and Rwanda .

In his work in crisis areas, he has repeatedly depicted the fate of the people struck by the disaster, such as the tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia and the earthquake in Iran in 2004.

He also worked with humanitarian organizations such as WHO (Project on Tuberculosis ). The project on work-related deaths and disabilities became a book.

Awards

year Award theme motive Web link
1997 World Press Photo Awards
General News Stories
2nd Prize 		Afghanistan Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan image
2008 Marco Luchetta Prize
Photography 		tuberculosis Mother with tuberculosis child PDF
2011 World Press Photo Awards
General News Single 		2010 Haiti earthquake Girl with burning building image

Exhibitions

In addition to group exhibitions, there were the following solo exhibitions:

  • 2008 Primero Dios! - Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Riccardo Venturi: Riccardo Venturi-7 minuti 2000, ISBN 978-88-8215-215-4 .
  2. ↑ Marco Luchetta Prize, 2008
  3. ↑ Riccardo Venturi on Photography Now, accessed May 13, 2012.
  4. ↑ Primero Dios! on the museum website
personal data
SURNAME Venturi, Riccardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian press photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome