Davide Monteleone

For the football player, see Davide Monteleone (footballer).

Davide Monteleone (born 1974) is an Italian photographer. He won World Press Photo awards in 2007, 2009, and 2011. Since 2019 Monteleone is a National Geographic Storytelling Fellow.^[1]

Davide Monteleone
Born	1974
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Photographer

Biography

Monteleone was born in 1974. He studied engineering but gave up on it and decided to study photography and journalism. He traveled to the United States and then to the United Kingdom to study those subjects. He started his career in 2000, working with Italian and international magazines. At the end of 2001 he moved to Moscow, where he stayed till 2003. Since then he has traveled back and forth between Italy and Russia, continuing his editorial work.

In 2007 Monteleone published his first book, Dusha (in English, Soul) and two years later published a second one, La Linea Inesistente.^[2] In 2012 he published a book titled Red Thistle, winner of, among other prizes, the European Publishers Award for Photography,^[3] the Aftermath Grant,^[4] and the Burn Emergency Photographer Grant.^[5]

In 2013 Monteleone appeared in the series of 12 episode of "Fotografi" for Sky Arte.

In 2013, with the support of Fondation Carmignac, he published the book Spasibo, of work he had produced in Chechnya.

Publications

Publications by Monteleone

• Душа (Dusha) = Anima russa. Rome: Edizioni Postcart, 2007. ISBN 8886795335. With text by Viktor Erofeev and Margherita Belgiojoso.
• La Linea Inesistente: Viaggio Lungo la ex Cortina di Ferro. Rome: Contrasto, 2009. ISBN 8869652378.
• Holler – Enel Contemporanea – H+, 2012.^[vague]
• Red Thistle, 2012.
  • Rote Distel. Heidelberg: Kehrer. ISBN 3868282947.
  • Red Thistle. Stockport: Dewi Lewis. ISBN 1-907893-16-4.
  • Chardon Rouge. Arles: Actes Sud. ISBN 2-330-00210-6.
  • Cardo Rosso. Rome: Peliti. ISBN 88-89412-53-4.
• Спасибо (Spasibo) = Spasibo. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2013. ISBN 3868284664. With text in French and English by Galia Ackerman and Masha Gessen.
• The April Theses. Postcart, 2017.

Publications with contributions by Monteleone

• War is Only Half the Story: Ten Years of The Aftermath Project. Dewi Lewis, 2018. Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, texts by Clare Cavanagh, Donald Weber and Sara Terry and photographs by more than forty Aftermath Award winners.

Awards

• 2005: Prize Amilcare Ponchielli "C’era una volta CCCP" 2nd prize at the Amilcare Ponchielli Milano^[6]
• 2006: World Press Photo Israeli bombing in Lebanon – 1° Prize Spot news stories^[7]
• 2007: TAF (Toscana Arti Fotografiche) prize, Lucca Digital Photo Fest, Lucca, for "Dusha – Russian Soul"^[8]
• 2008: IPA Award 2008 2nd place best book Dusha; 1st place general news editorial "Pakistan Turning Point"^{[citation needed]}
• 2008: FotoGrafia-Book Award Best book at FotoGrafia Festival in Rome^{[citation needed]}
• 2008: Premio Marco Bastianelli, for Dusha^[9]
• 2008: PDN Photo annual award Magazine Editorial Categories for Internazionale^{[citation needed]}
• 2008: World Press Photo Abkhazia – 1° Prize General news stories^[10]
• 2009: Finalist for Aftermath Project grant, for "Fringe of Empire"^[11]
• 2009: Leica Oskar Barnack Award finalist "Russian Caucasus"^[12]
• 2010: Lumix Freelens Award Winner Freelens award "Northern Caucasus"^[13]
• 2010: Emerging Photographer Grant 2010 winner, Burn magazine, for "Northern Caucasus"^[5]
• 2010: Sony World Photography Awards: Professional Contemporary Issues Category, 2nd prize: "The Republic of Dagestan"^[14]
• 2011: Aftermath Project Grant Winner with "Red Thistle, The Northern Caucasus Journey"^[4]
• 2011 European Publishers Award for Photography "Red Thistle"^[3]
• 2011: Follow your convictions grant "Reversed See" – Maurice Lacroix – World Press Photo foundation^[15]
• 2011: World Press Photo Milan Fashion Week – 2nd Prize Art single^[16]
• 2012: EPEA 01 grant "Harragas"^{[citation needed]}
• 2012: Awakening World Award, Tehran art project, Iran "Reversed see series": Photography section, best artist works^[17]
• 2013: Fondation Carmignac Photojournalism Award Spasibo^[18]
• 2013: POYi Feature Multimedia Story, second place, for "Nordic Odyssey: A Month at Sea". With Myles Kane, Kristina Budelis, Elissa Curtis, and The New Yorker^[19]
• 2014: Honorable mention Aperture Portfolio Prize, New York City^{[citation needed]}
• 2014: PDN Best Book Award 2014, USA^{[citation needed]}
• 2016: Fellowship Asia Society, ChinaFile, USA^{[citation needed]}
• 2017: Finalist, W. Eugene Smith, W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, New York City^{[citation needed]}
• 2017: Winner CodiceMIA, MIA Fair, Milano, Italy^{[citation needed]}
• 2019: Finalist BMW Residency, Paris Photo, France^{[citation needed]}
• 2019: National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship, USA^[1]
• 2020: Finalist, Leica Oskar Barnack Award, GE^[20]
• 2020: One of ten joint winners, Luis Roederer Discovery Award, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France^[21][22]

Solo exhibitions

• Dusha, Lucca Foto Festival, Lucca, IT, 2007. Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France; B gallery, Rome, 2008. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Micamera, Milan, 2009. Casa studio Morandi, Modena, IT, 2013.
• La Linea Inesistente, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2009. Ortygia, Siracuse, IT, 2010.
• Ombre di Guerra, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, 2009. Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, 2011.
• Red Thistle, Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italy, Festival giornalismo di Internazionale; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto, IT; Lumix Festival, Hannover, 2010. Rencontres d'Arles, New York; VII Gallery, New York; Petite Noire Gallery, Paris; Freelens gallery, Hamburg, 2012. Bursa Festival, Bursa, TR; Officine Fotografiche, Rome; Micamera, Milan, 2013.
• Harragas, European photography Award, House of Photography, Hamburg, 2012; Nobel prize Center, Oslo, 2013.
• Spasibo, Chapelle de l'école de beaux arts, 2013. Saatchi Gallery, London; Frankfurt Photo Forum, Frankfurt; Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France; Museo Messina, Milan, 2014.

References

1. "2019-2020 National Geographic Storytelling Fellows Announced". National Geographic Society Newsroom. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
2. . VII. Archived from the original on July 12, 2013. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
3. "European Publishers Award geht an Davide Monteleone 2014-05-12 at the Wayback Machine", freelens.com, 12 July 2011. (in German) Accessed 8 May 2014.
4. "Red Thistle", The Aftermath Project. Accessed 17 May 2014.
5. "Emerging Photographer Grant 2010 Recipient, Burn magazine, June 2010. Accessed 17 May 2014.
6. "Premio Ponchielli 2006: Progetto segnalato: Davide Monteleone: C'era una volta CCCP Archived 2014-05-17 at archive.today", Gruppo Redattori Iconografici Nazionale, February 2006. (in Italian) Accessed 17 May 2014.
7. "2006, Davide Monteleone, 1st prize, Spot News stories", World Press Photo, 17 May 2011. Accessed 14 May 2014.
8. "Lucca Digital Photo Fest '07", UnDo.net, 24 November 2007. (in Italian) Accessed 17 May 2014.
9. "Risultati premio Bastianelli 2008 2014-05-17 at the Wayback Machine", PhotoRevolt, 10 June 2008. (in Italian) Accessed 17 May 2014.
10. "2008, Davide Monteleone, 1st prize, General News stories", World Press Photo. Accessed 14 May 2014.
11. "Fringe of Empire", The Aftermath Project. Accessed 17 May 2014.
12. "Le prix Oscar Barnack 2009", photofloue.net, 12 January 2010. (in French) Accessed 14 May 2014.
13. "Italiener Monteleone gewinnt bei Lumix-Fotofestival", Hannoversche Allgemeine, 20 June 2010. (in German). Accessed 14 May 2014.
14. "Galleries: Sony World Photographic 2010", Melbourne Herald Sun. Accessed 17 May 2014.
15. "Davide Monteleone wins Follow Your Convictions grant 2014-05-14 at the Wayback Machine", World Press Photo, 17 May 2011. Accessed 14 May 2014.
16. "2011, Arts and Entertainment, 2nd prize singles, Davide Monteleone 2014-05-14 at the Wayback Machine", World Press Photo. Accessed 14 May 2014.
17. "Winners", Awakening World Award; by the Wayback Machine on 27 July 2013.
18. "2012: Davide Monteleone: Chechen Republic 2014-04-24 at the Wayback Machine", Fondation Carmignac. Accessed 13 May 2014.
19. "Winners of the Seventieth Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition: Judged February 5 through February 26, 2013", POYi. Accessed 17 May 2014.
20. "Davide Monteleone - LOBA". Davide Monteleone - LOBA. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
21. ""Les Rencontres de la Photographie" di Arles, niente Festival ma i premi restano". GQ Italia. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
22. d'Arles, Les Rencontres. "LOUIS ROEDERER DISCOVERY AWARD 2020". www.rencontres-arles.com. Retrieved 2022-06-24.

External links

• Official website