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Alessandro Penso
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ROME, ITALY /// 1978
Alessandro Penso was born in Velletri in 1978. He studied Clinical psychology at “La Sapienza” University in Rome. in 2007 he obtained a scolarship in photojournalism at the “Scuola Romana di Fotografia”. During his studies, he produced a photo reportage on the subject “Valle dell’Omo” in Ethiopia for wich he obtains the “PDN PhotoStudent”. In the last few years he has begging documenting works on the body and sexuality of the modern society and immigration these works are still in progress. Thanks to a part of this work, he obtains several awards such as: the second award for the PX3 photoreportage cathegory “the other” and an honor mention;3 awards for the IPA, 1 for the “Lucca Digital Photo” and the nomination as “selected author” at the “Fotoleggendo 2008″. In 2009 he was finalist at the Photoespana and he was selected for the project “In Between” (the goal was to photograph Rome in 62 hours outside the ancient walls) by the “Rome photography Fotofestival” to realize a team project on Rome wich has been published as a book and has produced an exhibition. Moreover, for the Festival of Rome he joined a team expo “12×10″. In 2009 thanks to “Drag Kings” project won “PDN Photo Annual 2010″. In 2011 won Project Launch,Santa FE, with “Migrat Workers Journey” which was exposed at New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe.
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