Born in Naples, Italy, Alessandra lives and works in Florence. She is a teacher of photography, a curator of exhibitions and a photographer, who constantly expands her artistic development by experimenting and mixing new digital technologies, analog photography and alternative printing processes. Her favorite photographic equipment includes pinhole and toy cameras, as well as mobile devices. She teaches photography at New York University, Florida State University, SACI and Fondazione Studio Marangoni. Capodacqua teaches workshops and gives lectures in Italy and abroad, has curated various photography exhibitions and has participated in the creation of photography festivals in Italy and abroad. She is regularly invited to portfolio reviews. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and published in books and magazines. Capodacqua’s photographs are held in private and public collections, including the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.
Alessandro Penso studied clinical psychology at Rome’s La Sapienza University. In 2007, he received a scholarship to study photojournalism at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia. Since completing his studies, he has won several awards. He is deeply committed to social issues and, in recent years, he has focused on the issue of immigration in the Mediterranean. During this time, he has produced work on detention centres in Malta, the situation of migrant workers in the agricultural sector in the south of Italy, and young people stuck in limbo in Greece. Motivated by the desire to raise awareness of situations of injustice at Europe’s margins, Penso intends to continue working on this issue in the months and years to come. Penso is also keenly aware that the difficult social and economic conditions in Mediterranean countries are providing an outlet for the phenomena of cultural closure, xenophobia and violence, which represent an insurmountable obstacle to migrants enjoying even the most basic human rights. In 2012, he witnessed a brutal attack on a group of migrants in Corinth, Greece, in which one young man, Mostafa, was hit by a car. This experience has further motivated Penso to continue his work on this issue and redouble efforts to raise awareness of and to help combat xenophobia and race-related violence.
Rocco Rorandelli started working as a documentary photographer after his doctoral studies in biology, which helped him develop a profound interest in global social and environmental issues. His images have been utilized in the awareness campaigns of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and published by the main international magazines, such as Le Monde Magazine, GEO , Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Paris Match, Guardian Review, D di Repubblica, L´Espresso, Internazionale, Io Donna, Vanity Fair, Sportweek, Monocle, IL, and others. He had been shortlisted at Sony World Photography in 2010. In 2011 he was awarded a grant by the Fund for Investigative Journalism for his long-term project on the tobacco industry. In 2013 he was selected as a nominee for the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund. Rocco is based in Rome. He is one of the founding members of the photography collective TerraProject.
Henk Wildschut studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. His work is exhibited around the world. In addition to many self-initiated, long-term projects, Wildschut has photographed for many Dutch and International magazines. Wildschut´s work displays a contemplative and often distant view on the people and situations he photographs, which lends a balance and monumental quality to his photographs that incite the viewer to further reflect on the subject. In 2005, Wildschut started a long term project around European immigration. In 2010, this resulted in the book Shelter and the film 4.57 Minutes Back Home. In 2011, his book Shelter was awarded with the Kees Scherer prize for the best Dutch photobook of 2009-2010 and he also won the prestigious Dutch Doc 2011 Award for best documentary project. The same year Wildschut was commissioned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to work on the topic of ‘Food’. After two year this resulted in the book Food and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. He then returned to his old subject immigration and refugees. In the last year he has followed the developments of the refugee camp in Calais. This work will result in a large exhibition at the photography museum Foam in April 2016 in Amsterdam entitled From Jungle to City.
