On the Campaign Trail in Upper Egypt
The photographer Davide Monteleone accompanied Hessler to Egypt to photograph Yusuf on the campaign trail and citizens of Upper Egypt carrying out elections
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On the Campaign Trail in Upper Egypt – The New Yorker
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Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border – The New Yorker
Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border
In the summer of 2014, Davide Monteleone, an Italian photographer who had lived in Moscow for more than a decade, began to travel to the Russian-Chinese border in search of something that felt real and reliable
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Davide Monteleone’s ‘Spasibo,’ a search for Chechen Identity
Link: Slide Show: Davide Monteleone’s ‘Spasibo,’ a search for Chechen Identity : The New Yorker“Grozny is a city of phantoms. Phantoms of those who died or disappeared in the war—every family has brothers, sons, or a father who left the house and never returned,” writes the Moscow-based journalist Masha Gessen, in the opening text of “Spasibo,” a monograph and exhibition by the Italian photojournalist Davide Monteleone, which examines Chechen identity after centuries of violence and conflict between Chechen separatists and Moscow.
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Spasibo
Link: Spasibo « VII Photo
via PJLDavide Monteleone’s study on identity gradually became the story of a compromise, that which all the inhabitants of this republic are forced to accept from the authorities in return for a better life. As he was told by a friend in the mountains around Itum-Kali quoting a letter written by Yermolov to Tsar Nicolas I, during the Caucasus campaign: “The Chechens are a combative people, difficult to conquer, easier to buy.”
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Davide Monteleone wins Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award
Link: Davide Monteleone wins Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award – British Journal of PhotographyVII Photo member Davide Monteleone has won the fourth edition of the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award, which financed a four-month project in Chechnya
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Red Thistle by Davide Monteleone: The Rhythm of Life in the Caucasus
Link: Red Thistle by Davide Monteleone: The Rhythm of Life in the Caucasus – LightBoxOver the next five years, Monteleone would return to Chechnya and the surrounding regions of the Caucasus Mountains as often as once a month. “A lot of work had been done on the wars and the human rights abuses,” he said. “We wanted to study everyday life.”
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photo-eye Book Reviews: War Is Only Half the Story, Vol. 3
Link: photo-eye | BLOG: photo-eye Book Reviews: War Is Only Half the Story, Vol. 3Photographs by Louie Palu, Asim Rafiqui, Rodrigo Abd, Andrea Bruce, Davide Monteleone, Saiful Huq Omi, Ami Vitale and Donald Weber. The Aftermath Project, 2011. Softcover. 132 pp., black & white and color illustrations throughout, 11×11
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PDN Pulse » Davide Monteleone Wins 2011 Aftermath Grant
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EPF 2010 Winner Northern Caucasus | burn magazine
Davide Monteleone:
Link: EPF 2010 Winner | burn magazineI’ve been working from Chechnya to Dagestan, from Northern to Southern Ossetia, just after the war in August 2008, all the way to Abkhazia, from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea coasts, crossing geographical and political borders. My interest isn’t to cover the news that brought the region back under the international floodlights, but to carry on a considered path by making notes of the tracks left behind.
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Documenting the Chechen Struggles – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
Link: Documenting the Chechen Struggles – Lens Blog – NYTimes.comAfter suicide bombers set off two huge explosions, killing dozens in the Moscow subway system last week, attention turned toward Chechnya — the troubled republic in North Caucasus where the Russian government has sought to suppress a violent Muslim uprising since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Italian photographer Davide Monteleone has been working there extensively this year, pursuing a project that documents Muslim life and the struggle for stability as the Russian government tries to stamp out the remnants of a war that has continued for nearly 15 years. Based in Rome and Moscow, Mr. Monteleone, 35, is represented by Contrasto.