Fotografen - Einzelansicht

"Stefano De Luigi was born in Köln in 1964.
He has worked as a professional photographer since 1988, and has carried out a reportage in South Africa, on the "Homelands", showing the changes undergone in the country after the end of the apartheid.
In 1990 he moed to Paris where the Grand Louvre Museum assigns him the portrayal of the transformations of the museum during the Bicentenary celebrations. In the meantime he carried out a vast number of reportages for French and international magazines.
In 1995 De Luigi's attention is drawn by the world of Italian television, a reportage published by the most important magazines worldwide. The project, named "Global Television", was subsequently extended to France, USA and Mexico.
In 1998 he starts working on Italian and French fashion, "Celebrities". In 1999, in collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontiers, he portrays health conditions of Central Siberian prisons.
His photographs have been exhibited at the Festival of Edinburgh (1988), at the Espace Carrousel du Louvre (1993) and in a collective exhibition at the Arles Festival in 1996.
In 1997 he was invited to take part at the "Masterclass of the World Press Photo Foundation". In 1999 he has been awarded with the World Press Photo in the "Arts Stories" category. In the same year the "Pornoland" project comes to life.
In 2000 he received an "Honorable Mention" from the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and his work was shown at Arles. In 2002 "Celebrities" becomes a solo exhibition at the Savignano International festival.
"Pornoland" project, a journey through the world porn industry, became a book published in Italy, France and United Kingdom on Spring 2004; in Fall 2004 it was also published in the US. "Pornoland", which text was written by Martin Amis, was presented with an exhibition in Paris, at the REA gallery. In March 2005 the "Pornoland" exhibition was also held in Rome at Galleria Santa Cecilia.
At the end of 2004, Stefano De Luigi began the collaboration with Christian Blind Mission Italia to carry out a project about blindness worldwide. After visiting two African countries, Liberia and Nigeria, then India, in Summer 2005 he returned in Africa: the latest legs of the project were Uganda, Rwanda and Congo.

Stefano De Luigi joined Contrasto in 1996."

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"Contrasto is a unique enterprise in the field of photography. Contrasto was born in the 80's to be a point of reference for quality photojournalism.

The agency's photographers, in addition to its close contact with the information and culture worlds, allows Contrasto to be a leader in the field of author photography.

Its vast range of activities (production and distribution of images for journalism, advertising and image consulting, fashion and publishing, archives available online) is guaranteed by the various resources it draws from; Most notably Magnum, the prestigious agency founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Contrasto is publishing house as well, working to realize photographic books, and exhibits in cooperation with Italy's public and private institutions.

The high level of Contrasto photographers' amounts to a gallery of unique images suitable for collecting purposes as well."

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