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Alessandro Tosatto - CONTRASTO
Contact: | Alessandro Tosatto |
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Tel.: | +39 06 328281 |
Fax: | +39 06 32828240 |
E-Mail: | international:annalisasalsano-asalsano@contrasto.it |
Web: | http://www.contrasto.it/eng/photographers/dettaglio.asp?idf=20&b=1 |
"Born in Piombino Dese (Padua) in 1969, quickly moves to
Milan where he studies advertising graphics.
He begins working in 1992 on the city's events with Milanese
agencies and the Associated Press. In 1993, he begins
travelling in the Balkan countries: first Croatia, then Bosnia,
he shoots the siege of Sarajevo then moves to Romania and
Macedonia. During 1999, he resides in Albania to keep a close
eye to the Kosovo conflict. He travels in Iraq both in times of
peace and during the embargo and visits Turkey as well.
After September the 11th 2001 Tosatto travelled throughout
Israel and Palestine, where he documented the anniversary of
the second Intifada, then in Pakistan, Peshawar, where he
waited for the falling of the Taliban regime. He is one of the
first western people entering Afghanistan, where he documented
the change of the government and relative hopes of civil
population. Since 2002 he has focussed his interests on Africa:
first with a reportage on the famine in Malawi, then with a
portrait of Amina, in Nigeria, condemned by Islamic law;
afterwards he works, for Mani Tese, in Benin, against the
exploitation and the children trade, realizing a reportage that
was exhibited at UNICEF office in Florence. In Mali Tosatto
documented the several phases of the rice production in
occasion of the International Year of Rice, organized by FAO in
2004. In summer 2003 he realized a reportage on the African
press for a project of Regione Piemonte, then exhibited in
Turin. In 2004 he published Guinea Bissau, a book that
documented a long travel through the little village, tormented
by poverty and by a long period of a bad government. In the
same year he went to Georgia in order to realize a reportage on
the difficult situation of the country; in October he went to
Mali in order to document damages caused by grasshoppers.
Alessandro Tosatto follows news and in-depth investigations, in
Italy and abroad or wherever events attract his
attention.
He is part of Contrasto's staff since 1997."
"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."