Tehran Echoes is the story of 30 days spent in Tehran in June 2009: from the colorful and lively pre-election demonstrations, to election day, to the protest and brutal repression that hit the citizens of the capital, causing dozens of deaths and hundreds of injured. In this long month, activists of the "green wave" tried to transfer a cumbersome past into the dream of a different future, remaining suspended in a present in which echoes and prefigurations explode.
For this work, Pietro Masturzo has been awarded World Press Photo 2009, Picture Of The Year 2009 and People in the News 2009.
Pietro Masturzo
(Napoli, 1980) Documentary photographer and a photo-reporter whose work focuses on socio-political issues, with a particular interest in the resistance of peoples in the face of oppression and the violation of human rights. Masturzo regularly collaborates with various Italian and international magazines and newspapers, including L’Espresso, Internazionale, Il Corriere della Sera, Republik, Le Monde, Geo, Marieclaire, The New Yorker and many others. His works have been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in various galleries, festivals and museums including the Lower Belvedere in Vienna, The Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo, the House of Photography in Hamburg. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Picture of the Year at the World Press Photo for his work in Iran.
Since 2015 he has been conducting projects using photography for social purposes, in collaboration with different associations and thanks to the support of Canon Italy. In 2018 he realised his first documentary film Life is but a dream, with documentarist and anthropologist Margherita Pescetti. The project was awarded the Audience Prize at the 59th Festival dei Popoli and the Best Documentary at the 26th Visioni Italiane. He is represented by Prospekt photo agency.
Carlo Maddalena
( Naples, 1980) In 2001 he published the collection of poems Nero su bianco and in 2003 the collection of Versi. In 2008 he obtained a diploma in Storytelling techniques at the Holden school in Turin. He currently works as a freelance writer and journalist.
Daniele Protti, L'Europeo, 01/03/2010
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