BIOGRAPHY
Alessandro Cosmelli is an Italian-American documentary photographer. He has traveled and worked in over fifty countries around the world and across the United States of the Obama and Trump era, focusing on issues relating to human rights, conflict aftermath, identity. More in general, Alessandro’s research is inspired by the dynamics and forces that shape our contemporary society and the interactions between the individual and their community in a globalized world.
Alessandro has published five monographic books including Oltrenero (Contrasto, 2009) and Brooklyn Buzz (Damiani, 2012), both awarded by the Pictures Of the Year International (POYi) among the best photography books of the year.
His images have been featured in leading editorial publication all over the world - Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Harper’s, Stern, Time, New York Times, L’Espresso, Internazionale, Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, among many others - exhibited internationally and broadcasted across major multimedia platforms - CNN, Yahoo News, RAI, SKY - receiving awards from Pictures Of the Year International, Photo España Award for Human Values, Prix de la Photographie Paris, Tokyo International Photo Award, and the Pulitzer Center.
Alessandro Cosmelli and Gaia Light are the creators of The Buzz Project, a multi-city photo-reconnaissance ongoing project, inaugurated in 2010, which represents a symbolic portrait of the contemporary metropolis and its inhabitants, as seen through the moving frame of the public bus window.
Alessandro is currently based in Miami.
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