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Massimo Sciacca was born in Bologna, Italy, in 1965. After graduating, he moved to London where he spent two years and became involved with documentary photography. On his return to Italy, he started working free-lance, focusing his photographic research on social and political topics: in these period, he realized the photo session "Squattin’ Bo", first chapter of a major project, titled "Subcult", about youth cultures. In 1991 he joined the Lucky Star photo agency and covered different features, including the first days of the war in the former Yugoslavia and the first free elections in Albania in 1992. Returning to free-lancing in 1993, he went to Bosnia-Herzegovina for the first time. The following 3 years he went back there many times to report on Rock Under The Siege, a feature about the life of young musicians in Sarajevo during the war. In the same period he covered the siege of Mostar and the invasion of Turkish army in the Iraqui territory of Kurdistan. In March 1997 he photographed the peoples’ rebellion in Albania. One of the photographs in this series was awarded at the World Press Photo Contest. From 1998 to 2004 has been on the staff of the Contrasto Agency, Italy. With this agency he has covered the Indonesian riots in Jakarta and photographed the divisions between the Turkish and Greek communities in the island of Cyprus. In 1999 he went to Kosovo and Serbia to document the latest ethnic conflicts in the Balcans. This photo-story was awarded with the Italian Fuji prize for photojournalism. In the same year, he worked on the troubles in East Timor. In 2000 he moved to Hong Kong, where he worked on various stories concerning social change in South Asia and continued his research on youth cultures. The following year he went to Iran to work on a story about coranic schools, also covering the war in Afghanistan. In 2002, he photographed scenes of poverty in the Philipines and daily life in the largest prison of Manila for a long term project called "The paper tiger". In 2008 he travelled to french Polynesia, where he worked on the condition of the local population and to Australia, where he photographed the Australian surfer’s society. In the same year, he joined Prospekt Photographers Agency. He is currently based in Milan, Italy Massimo Sciacca nasce a Bologna nel 1965. Dal 1984 si occupa di fotografia, con particolare attenzione alla fotografia documentaria. Nel 1991 entra a far parte dell’agenzia Lucky Star. Copre diversi avvenimenti per numerose testate italiane ed estere, tra le quali Epoca, L’Europeo, Stern e Der Spiegel. Segue i primi giorni della guerra nella ex-Jugoslavia e le prime elezioni libere in Albania. Nello stesso periodo si avvicina alla vita degli squatters nei centri sociali bolognesi, e ne documenta il quotidiano in "Squattin’Bo", risultato di un lavoro di oltre dieci anni. Nel 1993 si reca per la prima volta in Bosnia-Herzegovina, dove tornerà spesso nei tre anni successivi per realizzare "Rock Under the Siege", un reportage sulla vita dei giovani musicisti sotto assedio. Nel 1995 documenta il conflitto croato-musulmano a Mostar e l’occupazione dell’esercito turco nel Kurdistan Iracheno. Nel 1997 fotografa l'insurrezione popolare seguita al crollo delle “piramidi finanziarie” in Albania: un’immagine di questo reportage viene premiata al World Press Photo Award. Nel 1998 entra a far parte dello staff dell’agenzia Contrasto. Segue i disordini e l’insurrezione studentesca in Indonesia, e realizza un reportage sulla divisione di Cipro. Nel 1999 è in Kosovo e in Serbia per documentare la guerra tra serbi e albanesi e poi a Timor est, per fotografare il conflitto nella regione. Nello stesso anno riceve il premio Fuji Italia per il fotogiornalismo e il premio Linea d’ombra. Nel 2000 si trasferisce ad Hong Kong per un lungo periodo durante il quale fotografa i cambiamenti della società dell’ex colonia britannica seguiti alla riannessione alla Cina e produce reportage per il South China Morning Post e per diversi quotidiani e magazine europei tra i quali Ventiquattro, Liberation, Stern, D, La Repubblica delle Donne, L’Espresso e Marie Claire Italia. L’anno successivo si reca in Iran per fotografare le scuole coraniche della città santa di Qom. Da lì raggiunge l’Afghanistan occidentale dove assiste alla liberazione dai talebani nella città di Herat da parte dei mujaheddin afghani. Nella primavera del 2002 fotografa l’addestramento militare dell’esercito filippino nell’arcipelago di Mindanao: inizia così un ampio reportage di due anni," La Tigre di carta", (tutt'ora work in progress) sulle condizioni di vita nelle comunità povere delle Filippine. Negli anni successivi, ha realizzato reportage in diversi paesi, tra cui Polinesia, Australia, Argentina e Chile. Dal 2008 è nello staff di Prospekt Photographers. Vive e lavora a Milano.
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