Location: Italy
Born in Terni - Italy - in 1977. He studied Contemporary Literature at Perugia University and took the Photojurnalism Master Course at Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata (ISFCI - Rome). Professional photojournalist since 2006, he is focused on social subjects with particular reference to Italy and the Middle East. He is represented by Emblema Photo Agency and CORBIS. Among several national prizes he recently gainsn the third prize at the Yonhap International Press Photo Awards 2011 in the category “Enhancement of International Peace” with his first work about Libya revolution. Solo and group exhibitions in Rome, NY, Paris, San Diego, Seul.
On the night of February17th 2011, a revolution against Muammar Gaddafi’s 40-year-old regime broke out in Libya. Six days later, on the night of February 23rd, I crossed the Libyan border from Egypt, coming from Cairo, and tried to move West as far as possible in the following weeks, in order to document what was happening. In October, during my second mission in Libya, I been in the Western part of the country. These images are part of the work I did in those days.
I focussed my work on the surreal feeling emerging from everyday life, when society's rules are subverted by the necessities of war. In this context reality becomes much more similar to a page of a book about partisan Resistance than to the typical iconography of contemporary war.
LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA. AJDABIYA. March 04, 2011. Muaskar Soulemahia, a 55 years old baker in Benghazi, carrying amunitions for field artillery in Ajdabiya West gate. © Luca Sola 2011
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LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA. AJDABIYA. March 2, 2011. Libyan rebel soldiers pray as they prepare for battle in Ajdabiya while pro Moamer Kadhafi soldiers and mercenaries armed with tanks and heavy artillery stormed the nearby city of Brega. © Luca Sola 2011
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LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA. TOBRUK. February 25, 2011. Libyan anti-regime demonstrators gesture at a burnt police station in the eastern city of Tobruk. On February 17, 2011 a massive insurrection in all the main cities mark the beginning of the Libyan revolution. © Luca Sola 2011
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LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA. AJDABIYA. March 04, 2011. Hisam Absalam, 35 anni, an anti Libyan government fighter, manages the last checkpoint at the west gate of the town of Ajdabiya. © Luca Sola 2011
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LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA. BENGHAZI. February 27, 2011. The seaside in front Benghazi's Court House. © Luca Sola 2011
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LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA. TRIPOLI. October 11, 2011. A prison guard screams to prisoners in the infamous Djeida prison in Tripoli. Some 1400 inmates are detained in this facility, among them former regime ministers, loyalist fighters, ordinary criminals and foreign immigrants. © Luca Sola 2011
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LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA. TOBRUK. February 25, 2011. Daud Edris, 39 years old, stands in Tobruk main square during the friday praier. During the clashes on February 17, his daughter, Dunya, 6 years old, was shoat to death by a stray bullet. © Luca Sola 2011
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LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA. AJDABIYA. March 01, 2011. Portrait of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is pictured in an abandoned and vandalized army barrack in the city of Ajdabiya, 160kms West of Benghazi. © Luca Sola 2011
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