Massimo Berruti was born in 1979 in Rome, where he actually lives. In 2003, after a short course of photography, he stopped his studies in biology to go deeper in photography. Freelance photographer, from 2004 he started to work in east Europe and mostly in Italy. Here he worked about immigration, suburbs and industry crisis: parts of his work where published in a book called "Made in Italy". His professional career began working with the most important Italian and European magazines such as l'Espresso, Internazionale, D la Repubblica delle Donne, Le Monde2 and The Independent. Since 2008 he began travelling in central Asia, particulary in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he documenting the changing society.

Massimo Berruti è nato nel 1979 a Roma, dove attualmente vive. Nel 2005 abbandona gli studi in biologia per approfondire la sua passione per la fotografia. Nel 2004 inizia a lavorare a un progetto collettivo poi diventato, nel marzo 2006, un libro intitolato "Made in Italy" (Trolley ed.). La sua carriera professionale si consolida lavorando con i più importanti giornali italiani ed esteri, come l'Espresso, D La Repubblica delle Donne, Io Donna, Amica, Vanity Fair e Paris Mach. Dal 2008 viaggia e lavora prevalentemente in Afghanistan e Pakistan, documentando l'evoluzione sociale e politica dei due paesi.

Awards

• 2008 - Selected for the 15th JOOP SWART MASTERCLASS
• 2008 - 2nd Prize in General News in the International Photography Award
• 2008 - Scoop International Festival of Angers, Jury Special Mention
• 2007 - World Press Photo : Second prize reportage in "Contemporary issue

Travels of hope

Italy is a country that, in spite of its economic development, does not succeed in granting to all its citizens the same level of sanitary assistance. Institutions are widely different, in terms of efficiency, between the North and the South, and one of the most noticeable gaps concerns health assistance. read more...

Roma Residence

The Roma Residence is a group of buildings, located in Via di Bravetta 451, at 10 minutes distance from the Vatican. Each building is composed by hundreds of bed-sitters read more...

Pakistan in Belief

Pakistan, recently more than in the past, is in the middle of international interests and is facing very difficult times. Since the end of the Musharaff’s regime, people unified their efforts to fight for their rights. Guided by the lawyers movement, they were able to push the new President Zardari back to the wall and obliged him to restore the former chief of justice Chaudry on his chair. read more...