Serate: Ucraina – La guerra dei freelancers
Ukraine – The freelancers war
Evening curated by Renata Ferri.
Go to see. Witness what is happening. This should be the priority of paper’s and pixel’s journalism.
The story on the field is always been entrusted to freelancers: journalists that go there, see and write, photographers that record and spread. Few are the commissions from newspapers, with often no economical coverage and insurance for risks and mishaps. It doesn’t happen only in Italy.
Images and articles come continuously on our screens and on papers, and is more and more the result of independent initiatives of single persons. New forms of journalism spread on the net, first of all blogs and on-line newspapers to get to the newspapers pages totally independently and often casually.
Started in November 2013 with Euromaidan, the Ukrainian crisis took different forms: from the protests in the square to social disorders, today it became a real civil war. Through the direct witness of journalists and photographers that followed the events during this year, this meeting offers an occasion to reflect on the importance of these testimonies and its relation with the editorial market of the information producers.
Different languages of photography go through the stages of this crisis.
Every author makes is/her trip and tells his/her story.
Taking part to the evening:
- Cesura presents a screening dedicated to the work in Ukraine by Andy Rocchelli.
- Michela A. G. Iaccarino, freelance journalist, consultant for Fabrica, collaborator of La Stampa.
- Sandro Maddalena and Emanuele Satolli, freelance photographers, will be showing their projects present in this edition of the Festival and will talk about their experience in Ukraine.
- Ilaria Morani, freelance journalist, publishes her correspondences on Corriere della Sera.
- Jérôme Sessini, photographer for Magnum Photos (screening). Documentary photography, witness from a great contemporary author. An unpublished video made in Maidan and a photographical story that starts from the square in Kiev and ends in Donbass.
- Vladislav Krasnoshek and Sergiy Lebedynskyy (screening): Euromaidan, black and white pictures. A personal and emotional diary from Maidan.
The evening will be led by Renata Ferri.
Biographies
Renata Ferri, journalist is also editor and photo-editor of Io Donna, the magazine of Corriere della Sera and AMICA, the monthly magazine of Rcs Mediagroup. Previously for a long time, she directed the photographical production of Contrasto. She edits editorial and expositive projects for single authors and collectives. She’s been a member of the World Press Photo jury in 2011 and 2012.–
Michela A.G. Iaccarino, Naples 1986. She graduates in Slavic compared literatures; she studies in Naples, Prague, Moscow and Siberia. As a reporter she worked in Israel / Palestine, Kosovo / Serbia and, during the Arab springs in Libya, Egypt, Syrian Kurdistan and Turkey. She followed the Ukrainian crisis for the communication centre Fabrica, from the revolution in Maidan square to the Donbas war. Her articles have been published on La Stampa.
Ilaria Morani, passionate of news and foreign countries, found out early that journalism is a great excuse to travel. Thirty-two years old, freelance by choice and a bit for necessity, she loves to write and to film.
She works with many Italian newspapers, among which Corriere della Sera, Sette, Io Donna, Donna Moderna, Pagina99 and Gazzetta dello Sport. In Milan she found her temporary base. Her last trip has been in Ukraina, where she spent many months to tell the story of a war underrated by many.
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Sandro Maddalena was born in the province of Naples, Italy, on February 12th 1984. In 2010 he graduated in Photojournalism at the Academy of fine Arts of Naples. In 2009 he executed his first reportage about the collection of garbage in Cairo, thanks to which, he was finalist in the italian contest “National Prize of Arts” (2010) and international contest “Click about it” (2012). In 2013 he is the youngest photographer of the group that presents a exhibit in Cologne about the last fifty years of social photography in Naples, with a work on a mental institution. In 2014 he was finalist in the international contest “Freelens Award for Young Photojournalism” and he was one of the winners in the international contest “Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year”. His photographs have been published in italian and international magazines and newspaper. Actually he is working on a long-term project on the Ukrainian crisis.
Born in Italy in 1979, Emanuele Satolli started his career as a journalist after attending the School of Journalism in Turin, following he specialized in photojournalism focusing on social and political issue and human being behaviors. With his work ‘Krokodil tears’ he won the Kontinent Awards 2014 in Editorial/Documentary Projects Category. The work was also selected for the Hannover LUMIX Festival for young Photojournalism 2014 in both categories photo and multimedia. He’s currently based in Rome.
