Tag: Tommaso Protti

  • Tropic of violence | By Tommaso Protti – burn magazine

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    Tropic of violence | By Tommaso Protti Tropic of violence | By Tommaso Protti Violence has become a familiar facet of Brazil’s identity, a tragic routine that affects all layers of Latin America’s biggest country. According to the Unite… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/07/tropic-of-violence-by-tommaso-protti/ While most commonly known in popular culture for beaches, carnival, samba and football,…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Amazônia: Life and Death in the Brazilian Rainforest

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Amazônia: Life and Death in the Brazilian Rainforest From January to July 2019, Italian photojournalist Tommaso Protti, accompanied by British journalist Sam Cowie, traveled thousands of miles across the… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/amazonia-life-and-death-in-the-brazilian-rainforest/ From January to July 2019, Italian photojournalist Tommaso Protti, accompanied by British journalist Sam Cowie, traveled thousands of miles across the…

  • The Destruction of the Amazon in Photos – Feature Shoot

    The Destruction of the Amazon in Photos – Feature Shoot

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    The Destruction of the Amazon in Photos – Feature Shoot The destruction of the planet at the hands of imperialist forces bears out Biblical prophecies of Armageddon, though what we are witnessing today was a long time coming. “The Europeans… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/01/the-destruction-of-the-amazon-in-photos/ Italian photographer Tommaso Protti is doing just that. As recipient of…

  • NatGeo Awards New Talent At Eddie Adams Workshop

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    Link: As part of the workshop, National Geographic awards $1,000 prizes to two young photographers who show outstanding promise in their careers. This year the winners were Tommaso Protti and Ciril Jazbec.

  • Tommaso Protti Wins €50K Carmignac Photo-j Award | PDNPulse

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    Link: Italian photographer Tommaso Protti has won the 10th Carmignac Photojournalism Award for his reportage about life in the Brazilian Amazon, and the social and economic forces behind ongoing environmental destruction there. Announced September 4 at Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan, the award includes a €50,000 prize to support Protti’s work in the Amazon, as…

  • Tommaso Protti’s portrait of a modern Amazon – British Journal of Photography

    Tommaso Protti’s portrait of a modern Amazon – British Journal of Photography

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    Tommaso Protti’s portrait of a modern Amazon – 1854 Photography Addressing a range of issues that span deforestation, drug wars, and daily life, Tommaso Protti’s investigation into the social fabric of the Brazillian Amazon wins this year’s Carmignac Photojournalism Award via 1854 Photography: https://www.1854.photography/2019/09/tommaso-protti-carmignac/ Addressing a range of issues that span deforestation, drug wars, and…

  • Darkly poetic photos show what life is like in the Brazilian Amazon – The Washington Post

    Darkly poetic photos show what life is like in the Brazilian Amazon – The Washington Post

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    Perspective | Darkly poetic photos show what life is like in the Brazilian Amazon From illegal logging to indigenous activists fighting to protect their forests, Italian photographer Tommaso Protti’s work is the winner of the 10th Carmignac Photojournalism Award. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/12/23/darkly-poetic-photos-show-what-life-is-like-brazilian-amazon/ The Italian photojournalist Tommaso Protti’s work on the Brazilian Amazon is the…

  • Tommaso Protti « burn magazine

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    Tommaso Protti – Terra Vermelha Tommaso Protti Terra Vermelha [ EPF 2018 FINALIST ] The Amazon Rainforest is often referred to as the ‘Lungs of our Planet,’ still imagined as the unspoiled home of isolated, disconnected tribes. A… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2018/12/tommaso-protti/ “Terra Vermelha,” which means red earth, is essentially a portrait of the modern…

  • The Toll of the Drug Trade in the Brazilian Amazon – The New Yorker

    The Toll of the Drug Trade in the Brazilian Amazon – The New Yorker

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    The Toll of the Drug Trade in the Brazilian Amazon In the Amazonian wilderness, human settlements are becoming subjugated to the mind-numbing violence of the narco world. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-toll-of-the-drug-trade-in-the-brazilian-amazon In an artist’s statement Tommaso Protti tell us what it is we are witnessing: Brazil’s burgeoning economy has made it a wealthy country,…

  • See Images of the Unknown War Underway in Southeast Turkey | TIME

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    See Images of the Unknown War Underway in Southeast Turkey The photographer Tommaso Protti documents the conflict you haven’t heard of via Time: http://time.com/4225315/southeast-turkey-war-kurds-pkk/ The photographer Tommaso Protti documents the conflict you haven’t heard of

  • Tommaso Protti’s Photographs of Kurds in Turkey

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    With the Kurds, in Turkey via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/01/with-the-kurds-in-turkey.html#slide_ss_0=1 The Italian photographer Tommaso Protti first travelled to southeastern Turkey in 2010. The region is home to nearly half the world’s Kurds. Protti, twenty-six, was drawn to the craggy, expansive terrain, as well as to the Kurdish communities he visited there. He has returned several…