Alessandro Grassani (b.1977, Italy) graduates in photography at the Riccardo Bauer Institute of Milano, where he lives. His work has appeared in numerous international publications including Sunday Times, New York Times, Time, El Pais, Foreign Policy, Der Spiegel, Mare, Vanity Fair, Internazionale, D of La Repubblica and Sette of Corriere della Sera. Grassani’s corporate clients have included Enel SPA, Lufthansa, Ferrovie dello Stato (the Italian State railway company), CommerzBank and ICE (Italian foreign trade institution).
He goes to Albania in the period of the landslide of the pyramidal societies and the clandestine immigration towards Italy, travels in the Balkans, around South America, Asia and Middle East, covering international events and stories in more than 30 countries in the world. In 2004 with the funeral of Yasser Arafat he started to cover the ongoing conflicts in Israel and Palestine. He is in the Gaza Strip before and during the clearing out of the colonies and again returns after the Hamas election victory and the military operation by the Israelis called “Summer Rain”. He also works in Iran, where he goes for the first time at the end of 2003 to record the effects of the Bam earthquake. He returns many times after the election victory of the conservative president Ahmadinejad: he investigates the situation of the Hebrew-Iranian Jews and he works on a long-term project about the complex Iranian society. In 2011 he begins a new long-term project entitled “Environmental migrants: the last illusion” documenting around the world the life of the people forced to migrate because of climate changes and with no alternative to the illusion of a better life in the city.
« 2008 fut marquée par un point de non retour : pour la première fois dans l’histoire de l’Homme, il y eut plus de gens vivant dans les villes que dans les campagnes et les villes grandiront de plus en plus à cause des changements climatiques grandissants et de ses réfugiés occasionnés. Une problématique destinée à devenir en quelques dizaines d’années, la nouvelle urgence humanitaire de la planète : les migrants environnementaux seront plus de 200 millions en 2050.
Je me suis demandé qui sont ces réfugiés climatiques ? d’où viennent-ils ? et où vont-ils ? J’ai décidé de parcourir leur chemins et de raconter leurs histoires. » Dé...
Cortona On The Move, photography in travel, is the first international festival centered on this genre of photography. Thinking about this event, we have given the journey the importance it deserves declining this word in all its forms and definitions. Our times are characterized by nomadism, speed and everyday's mobility: ways of being in motion, to explore, watch, find out. Cortona On The Move, photography in travel responds to this conceptually widespread idea of travel where the photography and photographers, travelers by definition, are the focus of the attention and are leading us through their eyes in various corners of the world and beyond.
Traveling, moving, migrating, being in motion are all well known conditions, common to human civilizations of all times and geographical areas and have different m...
Le plus grand Festival Photo en plein air de France. Créé il y a 12 ans, le Festival Photo Peuples et Nature de La Gacilly a réuni plus de 2,5 millions de visiteurs autour des plus grands photographes internationaux. Une photo éthique et humaniste croisant les regards de photographes issus du monde de l’art et du photo-journalisme. Un festival engagé dans le développement durable.
« Nourrir la planète, le défi majeur du XXIe siècle »
« La Terre... C’est elle qui nous nourrit, elle à qui nous devons la vie et devrons irrévocablement la survie. » Pierre Rabhi
Que mangerons-nous demain ? Comment subvenir aux besoins d’un monde qui comptera plus de 9 milliards d’habitants en 2050 ? Plus qu’un simple questionneme...
A project depicting one of the main and often overlooked consequences of climate change on human populations: the environmental migrants... In 2008, for the first time in history, there are more people living in cities than in rural areas. In 2050 the Earth will have to face the trauma depicted by 200 million environmental migrants who will not “land” on the richer nations, but will look for new sources of income in the urban areas of their home countries, which are already overcrowded and often extremely poor.
However, once they get there, because of the lack of resources and opportunities, their dream of a favorable future turns into the last of their illusions. With my work I focus on rural-urban environmental migration, and Mongolia with its extreme cold induced migration, Bangladesh with sea level ris...