PROFESSION REPORTER. Next workshops will be held in the agency's new premises in Via Donatello, 19 - Milan, in the following dates: 18/19 September - 2/3 October and 23/24 October. This course comes out from our photographers' 20 years experience in the field of social, geographical, antropological and war photography. An advanced workshop for photographers who want to go deeper into the storytelling side of photo reportage. Main teacher: Sergio Ramazzotti. Cost: 300 Euros per person.
For infos and reservations please write: workshop@parallelozero.com.
TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY. Next courses will be held as well in our new headquarters in Milan, in the folowing dates: 11th/12th September and 9th/10th October.
This workshop, led by one of our award-winning travel photojournalists, will teach you how to move in harmony in unexpected and unknown environments, how to master photographic techniques useful in any situation, and every other trick to shoot a great travel story. Suitable for everyone. Lessons will be in Italian. Cost: 300 euros per person.
For infos and reservations please write to: workshop@parallelozero.com -
Parallelozero will attend the Savignano Immagini photography festival, that will open on September 10th in this beautiful village in east Romagna, with an event dedicated to young photographers. During the festival our agency will organize infact portoflios' readings in order to search for new talented pofessionals for its new Nominees section. The readings will take place in the village main square on the September 11th and 12th. For info and subcripitons please visit: www.savignanoimmagini.it
Parallelozero will be present at FotoGrafia, Rome's international photography festival that will be held at the Macro Testaccio museum from September 23rd to October 24th, 2010, with two major agency projects. The first is a delicate feature by Alessandro Gandolfi, who photographed Gaza's Palestinians athletes (disabled by landmines and the Israelo-Palestinian conflict) training in different disciplines for the 2012 London Paralympic games. The second is a photographic book which, with an innovative graphic project conceived by Parallelozero's designers, depicts in 300 large-format pages a quasi-metaphysical journey made by our photojournalist Sergio Ramazzotti, who traveled undercover in North Korea. Other info on: www.fotografiafestival.it
From August 28th to September 5th, the photographers of our agency will attend the Visa pour l'Image 2010 edition, the famous photojournalism festival that is held every year in Perpignan, France. They will meet up with partner agencies, international photoeditors and will show their latest reportages. For appointments please write in advance to: info@parallelozero.com
Parallelozero will be present at the Open Wound international photography festival, which will be officially opened on July 27th, 2010, in the Italian seaside town of Santo Stefano al Mare (Imperia), with the premiere of The Interpreter, Sergio Ramazzotti's latest multimedia reportage. The movie, set in Iraq, tells in 33 adrenaline-packed minutes the story of the last seven years of a young Iraqi's life, forced to survive and reinvent his existance every day in a country destroyed by the coalition forces' takeover. The multimedia will be shown in piazza Scovazzi, in the heart of town, at 9.30 PM on July 30th.
Photojournalism agency Parallelozero will select portfolios for its Nominees Photographers new branch.The selected photojournalists will obtain a one-year contract with our agency. During this period, they will be fully syndicated by Parallelozero and its partner agencies worldwide. After 12 months, Parallelozero will reserve the right to admit the candidates in its roster of official photographers. You can submit your candidature for the Nominees Photographers branch by writing to: submission@parallelozero.com.
Please attach portfolio, bio, website URL, publications and ongoing projects description (if any).
Sports Illustrated, United States' most prestigious sports weekly newsmagazine, has chosen a photograph from Parallelozero's story "Footballing Africa" for its end-of-May cover. The story, which describes with an extremely delicate language the passion of African people for soccer, and is syndicated in the U.S. by our partner agency Aurora, is one of our several collective works, shot by five of our photojournalists all over the African continent during various assigments.
Parallelozero is proud to be a significant presence at the third edition of Artèfoto Festival, one of the most prominent international photojournalism festivals in Italy, held from May 28th to June 6th in the stunning Castelli di Jesi, the countryside of Marche region. Our photojournalists will be hosting three events: Sergio Ramazzotti will present Afghanistan 2.0, his new photographic book out in September, 2010 published by Leonardo International. A video projection will be dedicated to Indian agency Trikaya, exclusively syndicated by Parallelozero in Italy. And our photojournalist Bruno Zanzottera will exhibit - and, on May 30th, personally guide visitors through - "Saharawi: the wall of shame", one of his latest works. For info on event schedule and location, www.artefotofestival.org.
Alessandro Gandolfi's reportage covering the archaeological site of Hierapolis, published in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic Italia, has won Best Edit Award, a recognition given by the Washington National Geographic editorial office to the best reportage amongst all those published in the numerous local editions of this prestigious American magazine. In the Roman archaeological area of Hierapolis, Turkey, restoration and research has been in the hands of an Italian mission for the past fifty years. “Thanks to the kindness of professor Francesco D'Andria, head of the expedition – explains Alessandro – I was given access to the site and was able to photograph hidden corners of the archaeological area, where tradition says that Philip the Apostle is buried”. www.nationalgeographic.it
Starting this month Parallelozero has signed a representation agreement to syndicate in Italy, the work of the Metrography group of photographers, the first and only Iraqi photography agency covering all 18 of Iraq’s governorates from Al-Basra to Zakho. As reporters they use local photographers who give unrivaled knowledge and access in every region of the country. Their 65 contributors come from all the different regions of Iraq and speak Arabic, Kurdish, English, Assyrian, and Turkmen along with dozens of local dialects. They cover everything from News to Features, Sport, and Publicity and are ready for assignements as well. Parallelzoero has decided to represent them in Italy - as an exclusive- to give everybody a chanche to know better the local stories and territory covering on the spot any kind of event that may occur.
Aurora in the United States, EK Pictures in Poland and Contacto Photos in Spain, starting from this month, has begun to distribute Parallelozero's work, signing an important cooperaton agreement with our agency. Reportages, stock and features produced by our photographers, will have a prestigious new selling channel in those three new markets.
Alessandro Gandolfi is one of four Italian photographers who have been chosen to display their work at the National Geographic Italia exhibition “Il nostro mondo” (our world), at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, from the 6th February to the 4th May, 2010 (free entrance; open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 10 am to 8 pm, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 am to 10.30 pm). Gandolfi's photos were taken in a hospital in the Malawian capital during a reportage on AIDS problems which afflict this African country and which portray babies suffering from the virus. The exhibition “Il nostro mondo” wants to narrate the life of human beings via unpublished images by the best National Geographic photographers, highlighting situations which characterise their existence: the human family, city life, man and nature, work. “These 48 photos – explains Guglielmo Pepe, director of National Geographic Italia and curator of the exhibition – besides letting us observe, also help us to understand, share, participate and show our solidarity. These photographs open our eyes to the world and make us feel nearer to others, in good times and bad”.
New editorial contents and graphic design for the 2010 version of our website. From now on you can look at multimedia free-to-consult products, cooperaton with international agencies, reportages of new photographers that are starting to distribute their work trough us, monthly workshops held by one of our photographers in Italy and a section where one can search for some of our several publications on the worldwide media market.
After the success of Sergio Ramazzotti's exhibition Cult_Anti_Cult, held in Milano at Micamera gallery in October, 2009, fine art limited edition c-prints of the exhibition are for sale on the gallery's website. Each subject has been printed in a limited series of 10. The series chosen for the prints is that of Saddam Hussein's portraits, defaced by Iraqis in the most creative ways after the 2003 invasion, and photographed by Ramazzotti all over the country.
From January, 2010 Parallelozero and Apeiron Photos have teamed up to distribute Parallelozero's stories in Greece. The most important ellenic photojournalistic agency will be our representative in the Greek market.