News

NEWS - I’m proud to announce that my story Women of Vrindavan has been featured by Lens Culture, one of the prominent online photo reviews.

NEWS - I’m very happy and proud to announce my story “The Children Factory” was given the Excellence Award at the China Press Photo Contest in the Daily Life Stories category. You can see the pictures here.

NEW STORY & PUBBLICATION - Last December I was in Cairo shooting a story about the poverty stricken informal settlements of the capital city of Egypt. The story is finally available online and is also feautured on Private magazine n.48 along with other photographers’ work on economic inequalities around the globe.

PUBLICATION - My story “India’s Children Factory” has been published on the 14th of February issue of News Week Japan. The tearsheets are available here.

NEWS - I’m happy to announce my work Women of Vrindavan I shot last year in India has been shortlisted by the 2010 Anthropographia Award, won by Marcul Bleadsdale.

NEW STORY - Now online the story I shot in India last July about the surrogate mothers of Anand. Click here to see the pictures.

NEWS -I’ll be in Cairo, Egypt, till the 20th of December, working on a project about overpopulation. I’m reachable on my local mobile +20.19.044.5273 and available for assignments.

I’m very happy to announce I’ve joined Laif agency for the international editorial market. Laif is one of the leading photo agencies and a trendsetter for photojournalism, magazine and travel photography.

PUBLICATION - My story about Surrogate Pregnancy in India has been published on the Italian issue of Vanity Fair.

NEWS - The story “The Believers” about the persecuted Christians of Khandamal has received a honorable mention by the Italian Photography Prize.

NEW STORY - Now online the story that I shot last July in Vrindavan, India. There thousands of widows and destitute women gather from all over the country, rejected by their families. Blamed for being the hidden cause of their husbands’ death and therefore casting bad luck over the family, once they are sent away they choose to devote themselves to the worship of Lord Krishna in the holy city where he is believed to have been born.  See the story …

PUBLICATION - “The Believers” has been published on the 9th of September issue of Vanity Fair Italy.

I’ll be in Perpignan during the professional week from the 2nd to the 5th of September.

PK Posse is showcasing my and other fellow photographers’ work at Open Wound Photo Festival, Imperia, Italy, from the 21st to the 23rd of August.

NEWS - I’m proud to announce I’ve received a honorable mention at the 2009 Paris Photo Award with my story “The Believers”.

PUBLICATION - “Calais: the last dream”, a feature about illegal immigrants trying to reach Britain from the shores of the town of Calais, in nothern France, is being published on Andy Levin’s 100eyes online magazine in the current issue of July.

NEWS - By the end of June I’ll be in India for at least a month working on several stories. I’ll be reachable on my Indian mobile (+91 987 1838629).

PUBLICATION - I’m very happy to announce my work “Koceks” about the life of transgenders and transvestites of Istanbul is being featured on Diario magazine’s issue of June.

Stories
Harafish

Living below the povery line in Cairo

33 Photos

India's Children Factory

Wombs for rent in rural India

27 Photos

Women of Vrindavan

The forgotten widows and rejected women of India

20 Photos

The Believers

Indian Christians under attack

30 Photos

Generation Belarus

While the world faces the financial crisis, the last dictatorship of Europe sticks to state run economy

28 Photos

The Brothers from the Sea

Tsunami survivors threatened by the mass tourism wave

28 Photos

On the Run

The flight of the Karen people

26 Photos

Inside Turkey

A look at Tukey's backyard during 2007 parliamentary elections campain

26 Photos

Koceks

A day in the life of Istanbul's transgenders community

25 Photos

A place called home

The divided city of Mitrovica, an unsolved issue casting its shadow over Kosovo's future

24 Photos

The last dream

Migrants in the desperate attempt to reach their dreamland

23 Photos