LuganoPhotoDays November 13-18, 2012

LuganoPhotoDays has been created to be the first photo festival in Lugano E (Switzerland). N G L Its first edition will take place from November 13th to 18th, 2012 and it will be divided I into two parts: workshops during the day (one from Tuesday to Thursday and one S from Friday to Saturday) and four public talks in the evening. H

Public talks Workshops

Wednesday, November 14 at 8 PM November 13-15 Antonio Amendola with Alex Majoli about “Shoot 4 Change” the importance of having passion to create personal projects. Thursday, November 15 at 8 PM Alex Majoli November 16-18 about the history of Magnum with Nikos Economopoulos Photos and his personal projects about photo editing during projects

Friday, November 16 at 8 PM Nikos Economopoulos Contacts presentation of his retrospective Marco Cortesi Saturday, November 17 at 8 PM [email protected] Valerio Spada tel. +41 91 220 22 00 about “Gomorrah Girl” book and fax +41 91 220 22 01 self-publishing www.luganophotodays.ch

Talks are held in Italian. www.facebook.com/LuganoPhotoDays Talks have free entrance. www.twitter.com/LuganoPhotoDays

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Alex Majoli E N G At the age of 15, Alex Majoli joined the F45 Studio in L Ravenna, working alongside Daniele Casadio. While I studying at the Art Institute in Ravenna, he joined S H Grazia Neri Agency and traveled to Yugoslavia to document the conflict. He returned many times over the next few years, covering all major events in and . Majoli graduated from art school in 1991. Three years later, he made an intimate portrayal of the closing of an asylum for the insane on the island of Leros, , a project that became the subject of his first book, Leros. In 1995 Majoli went to South America for several months, photographing a variety of subjects for his ongoing personal project, ‘Requiem in Samba’. After becoming a full member of in 2001, Majoli covered the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and two years later the invasion of Iraq. He continues to document various conflicts worldwide for Newsweek, Magazine, Granta and National Geographic. Majoli, in collaboration with Thomas Dworzak, and Ilkka Uimonen, had an extremely successful exhibition and installation Off Broadway in New York in 2004, which travelled to France and Germany. He then became involved in a project for the French Ministry of Culture entitled ‘BPS’, or ‘Bio-Position System’, about the social transformation of the city of Marseilles. A recently completed project, ‘Libera me’, is a reflection on the human condition.

Antonio Amendola

Born in Rome in 1970. Photographer and founder of Shoot4Change (S4C), the international network of social photography, Whose purpose is to show to everybody the stories invisible and forgotten of this world. He’s a supporter of crowd photography, the idea that the bottom-up participation is the best way to tell the reality that surrounds us. LuganoPhotoDays November 13-18, 2012

Nikos Economopoulos E N Nikos Economopoulos was born in Greece. After G studying law in Parma, Italy, he worked as a journalist L I in his native country. Meanwhile, he pursued S photography, and in 1988 he began a long-term H project in Greece and Turkey. In 1990 he joined Magnum, and his photographs began to appear in newspapers and magazines worldwide. In the same year he started to take photographs in Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the former Yugoslavia, investigating the territorial, ethnic and religious tensions of the region, as well as the endurance of traditional social and religious rites. This work earned him the Mother Jones Award in 1992. Supported and encouraged by the charity Little Brothers of the Poor, Economopoulos undertook a project on poverty and exclusion in Europe, focusing on Gypsy communities in Greece. He was given the Abdi Ipektsi Award for peace and friendship between Greece and Turkey in 2001. A retrospective of his work was shown in 2002 at the in .

Valerio Spada

Born in Italy in 1972. After graduating from the Italian Institute of Photography, began his travels and accepted initial assignments in Munich, Madrid, Athens and . His editorial and commercial work has appeared in publications such as Italian Vogue, Mixte, Magazine Colette, D La Repubblica delle Donne, Italian Glamour, Max, A Anna, Vision, Stile. He did many advertising campaigns and directed videos. With Kasia Korczak and Payam Sharifi he founded and was Editor in Chief of “Cross Magazine”, which was distributed in more than 40 countries. In 2011 “Gomorrah Girl” book is released. “Gomorrah Girl” is published by Cross Editions in 500 copies and sold-out as well as special edition, 30 of 500 copies that constitute this first edition, are numbered and signed by the photographer and come with a signed photoprint. “Gomorrah Girl” second edition, with a quad fold poster designed by Valerio Spada comes in bigger format and in 750 numbered copies and is now available for sale on this website. “Gomorrah Girl” won the Photography Book Now Award 2011 as best book of the year. Listed in the 10 best books of 2011 in blog Des livres et des photos.