WePhoto Reportage Vol 9 by Mario Buncuga

WePhoto Reportage 2019 - Vol. 9 Dear all, This is yet another proud moment releasing this next edition in Reportage Photography under our ‘The Series’ banner. Since 2014 when WePhoto Group was founded we have come this far out of sheer passion for this art. Over the time, thanks to the continuous help and support of many likeminded colleagues, who have been as enthusiast as me in supporting this cause, that today we have created many platforms and thematic pages to represent the various genres in photography. Today WePhoto group has the widest presence across Facebook representing almost every possible genre of photography. As of date we represent various groups, thematic pages, with picture boards on Pinterest, a dedicated web portal and more than 80 books published on issuu.com. This annual collection called - The Series - is made out of eBooks each belonging to a specific photographic genre, and includes the artwork of several authors from Italy and abroad. The one in your hands is the ninth thematic book dedicated to Reportage Photography. Apart from the e-version these publications are available in the form of coffee table books as well.

Editorial Board Mario Bunčuga: Editor & Art Director Pankaj Anand: Review Associate Priyanka Agrawal: Review Associate Germana De Chellis: Chief Graphic Designer

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We are very excited and happy to feature these beautiful images and most of all, be able to share them with a wide range of viewers. Please spread a word around by sharing, and recommend to as many as you can to visit these eBooks from our webpages and links given ahead. Do leave your positive feedback on the eStores if you care. This is how you may help us grow and share our passion for photography! In this Book you can also find the links to our Facebook Group - WePhoto. Do come and join the group, invite your friends to share their work in there and enjoy some of the best images from around the world.

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Gratitude My special thanks to the entire WePhoto team that has helped me select images, contact authors and collect materials. My team members are always putting things together at the back office. Thanks to all the authors who have made this volume such a great collection with their valuable contributions. Thanks to our staff too, which is constantly managing and taking care of the group with its 12 thematic pages, pin-boards and online magazines. Thanks to my admin colleagues for their patient dedication. All this time when I remain away from the routine management of our network, they are the ones who take care of everything for the groups. I have no words to express my gratitude for the wonderful work they do every day with great passion and commitment. WePhoto Network the Founder Mario BunÄ?uga

The Authors

Adolfo Carli

Giovanni Simone

Angelo Montepaone

Giulio Montini

Angela Semilia

Anne Launcelott

Isabella Urtis

Copyrights All rights are reserved to WePhoto and Mario Bunčuga for this entire eBook and to individual authors for their work included in the related chapters. This book can be downloaded for free and distributed freely only as a whole. The images and text are exclusive property of the authors who might authorize their use elsewhere at their own discretion, if contacted personally in advance. You may also order a print version coffee table book from our link through Peecho online print service. Any misuse or otherwise will be prosecuted through the prevalent rules on the subject of copyright. © 2019 WePhoto

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INTRODUCTION: Reportage

Since the time Photography started, an important, if not the most important, use of this form of communication has been the documentation of events. From sports to war, from political events and trade to the narration of common life events, in the streets, in cities, in villages or in the fields, it is all about the description of life in its numerous forms. Sometimes it makes a story or a news, at others it creates a basis for a protest or a reporting. But nothing has ever made a greater impact on the mind of its viewers than a pictorial coverage of an instance. We sincerely hope that you will have the same feelings by the time you flip through the last page of this eBook.

Mario BunÄ?uga April 2019

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ADOLFO CARLI Milano, Italia

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I've been traveling around the world for the past 45 years and have inevitably been a big fan of photography. The photos I take are generally attributable to either photo-reportage or quite obviously, streetlife that mostly represents the routine life of people of the country that I am visiting.

I have always loved photographing people in their daily gestures. This is not always easy or possible, but over the years I have learned that patience and long waits help a lot. I'm also much interested in night photography, and therefore, during all my travels you will always find the tripod in my travel bag. 10

ANGELA SEMILIA Vicenza, Italia nikonphotographers.it/giuseppaangelasemilia facebook.com/angela.semilia instagram.com/angelasemilia/

I am Angela Semilia, born in Palermo and a few months later was moved to Germany, where I grew up, and now I live in the province of Vicenza. I have two great passions: photography and travel. The first is part of me as a young girl when I secretly took Dad's old Zeis Ikon Contaflex and immortalized the surroundings of the small German town where I lived then.

During the years of high school I begin taking my first photography lessons which, with the desire to learn more and more, follow one another even in adulthood. The transition from analogue to digital has led me to enroll in a photographic club and I participate in some workshops that help me grow as a photographer, and take me to dreamlike places like Iceland. I have taken part in a few collective exhibitions and have the opportunity to display my thematic p h o to s , n o t s u r p r i s i n g ly, o f A u st ra l i a n Landscapes, and of Berlin. Photographically, I feel more inclined towards the Landscape, but the desire to put myself on the line also leads me to include Reportage and Portrait. Nowadays, I love to do weddings, maternity and childhood moments and emotions. 22

ANNE LAUNCELOTT Halifax, Canada

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The world is my canvas, the camera is my brush.â&#x20AC;? Anne lives on the east coast of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her fascination with cultures that are different than her own have influenced her desire to travel to new and unfamiliar places. Her photography is inspired by people and the themes of everyday life.

Anne is attracted to colour, texture and light and these elements provide a rich backdrop for her subjects. Through the lens of her camera Anne makes a connection with the people she photographs and by doing so she attains a degree of understanding of their culture. Getting close and interacting with her subjects fosters a shared trust that will sometimes result in something magical happening. Anne wants her photographs to say something about life and the human condition and she wants to pull the viewer in by telling a story through her imagery. 34

GIOVANNI SIMONE Roma, Italia facebook.com/giovannisimone1981 giovanni_simone@hotmail.com

Photography was my first means of traveling; my first camera, bought from a flea market when I was only 13 years old, allowed me to start exploring the world, from the surrounding ones to the remotest places, mentioned in the books I read as a child, and dreamed of visiting someday.

"How do you take good pictures?â&#x20AC;? Quite often this question is asked by those who have attended courses on photographic techniques, in which it is explained to them that the photo is nothing more than capturing a moment of light. But in those lessons they sometimes forget to tell that light is a form of energy and that before capturing it you must know how to study it in the given environment. That's why the peculiarity of my travel reports is bound within the "captured moment" as it is, without any kind of distortion or manipulation. Each of my photos tries to tell the story of the moment in which it was taken, combining the memory of a life experience and beauty of the places far from the atrocities of life. 46

GIULIO MONTINI Jakarta, Indonesia facebook.com/giulio.montini.9 nuke.giuliomontini.com/ issuu.com/mariobuncuga/docs/master_stroke_giulio_montini

Giulio Montini was born in Como (ITALY) in 1961. He works as a technician in an industrial textile company. He started his photographic journey in 1985 with his initial photographs being made with an analog camera.

Since 2000, he has included computers in his photographic workflow. In 1994 he began to travel to places like India, Morocco, Tunisia, China, Romania, Iceland, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Nepal, Indonesia, South Korea, Oman, Ethiopia and many European capitals. During these travels he developed great passion for the reportage.To get the most out of these instances is a typical characteristic of Montini. In the last thirteen years he has been recognized as the best Italian photographer, in terms of the number of prizes won and the number of acceptances he has had in competitions. He currently stands at the first place overall in the all-time rankings of the FIAF. His international honors include AFIAP, EFIAP, EFIAP/P. In his career he has won over 1200 awards, including some very prestigious ones. 58

ISABELLA URTIS La Spezia, Italia facebook.com/appuntidiviaggioisabellaurtis/ facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009754324454

I was born in La Spezia on 21 August 1970. I graduated from the Art School A. Gentileschi of Carrara, and continued my studies in Genoa in the Faculty of Architecture. The choice of my studies was directed by my strong artistic creativity.

The interest and love for the history and the fascination with the beautiful things of the past made me approach the Urbex world. Urbex, a contraction of the English word urban exploration, is the search and exploration of abandoned places with characteristics of architectural and artistic value. Urbex is to have respect for these places and be enveloped by memories imprisoned in things, and immortalize them with photography, giving them a personal interpretation to the phrase: â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śtake nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints"... With urbex I discovered the passion for photography that has become a means of expression for my creativity. During my travels in Thailand, India, Guatemala, Burma, photographing was a journey inside the journey for me. Photography has become my way of telling not only what I see but also how I feel. 70

ANGELO MONTEPAONE Roma, Italia facebook.com/angelo.montepaone.79 500px.com/angelomontepaone03?fbclid=IwAR04C

I was born in Calabria in 1978, but then moved to Rome for study, where I currently live. I can't say exactly when my passion for photography began. I remember as a child I used to handle my father's camera and tried to use it as many times as I could. It was when my grandfather gave me my first reflex, a Zenith 122, which began my photographic journey. With the advent of digital, and its advantages, having received my first and long-awaited Nikon as a gift, I began to gradually move between the various photographic genres. Initially self-taught, with the passage of time and the growing desire to improve myself, I took several photography courses perfecting myself in portraiture, street photography and reportage.

The Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gate When you cross the entrance to the Auschwitz / Birkenau camps, you are hit by a set of strong sensations that are difficult to describe, like a sudden confrontation with reality. Lattices, fences, and watchtowers are the real ones, to witness that a place so cruelly conceived, in our imagination, far and belonged to history, is real, and we have it all around us at that moment. Crowded in the various rooms, the abnormal collection of personal objects give a name and a face to the victims of that abomination, until then considered mere numbers, bearing witness to the extent. One cannot help but imagine walking along the avenues or along the tracks, what could have been experienced by those who, in most cases, traveled that route for the last time, looking death in the face. During the visit I had my camera with me, but a strong sense of respect for those who saw its end in that place initially blocked me, the few shots taken, for a long time deliberately ignored, I timidly used them only to bring back my point of view. 82

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