Stefano De Luigi

Stefano De Luigi (born 1964) is a German-born Italian photographer.[1][2] De Luigi has been a member of VII Photo Agency since 2008 and lives in Paris.[1]

Life and work

De Luigi was born in Cologne. He has been a professional photographer since 1988. He lived in Paris from 1989 to 1996, working for the Louvre Museum.

In 1998 he completed the project Celebrities, about the fashion world. In 2000 he started the project Pornoland, a photographic journey on pornographic film sets, published as a book in 2004. From 2003 to 2006, he worked on his series Blindness - a photographic project on the blindness condition in the world, published as Blanco (2010). Blindness won the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund grant in 2007 and Blanco the Pictures of the Year International Best Photography Book Award.[3] In 2006 Luigi embarked on the project Cinema Mundi, a World Cinema exploration on the alternative cinematographic scene external to the Hollywood dream factory including China, Russia, Iran, Argentina, Nigeria, South Korea and India.

His photographs have been published in Stern, Paris Match, Le Monde 2, Time, The New Yorker, Internazionale, L'Espresso, Geo, Vanity Fair, El Pais and Sunday Times Magazine.[4]

Publications
  • Pornoland. 2004. With a text by Martin Amis.
    • London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500284989.
    • Germany: Knessebeck.
    • France: La Martiniere.
    • Italy: Contrasto.
  • Blanco. London: Trolley, 2010. ISBN 978-1907112140.[5]
  • iDyssey. Paris: Bessard, 2017. ISBN 979-10-91406-43-7.[6]
  • Babel. With Michela Battaglia. Rome: Postcart, 2018. ISBN 978-8898391769.
  • "Pornoland Redux" Selfpublished 2021

Awards
  • 1998: World Press Photo arts and entertainments (3rd stories)
  • 2005: Marco Bastianelli Prize, for Pornoland[7]
  • 2007: W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant[8]
  • 2007: World Press Photo, arts and entertainment (2nd single)
  • 2009: Moving Walls. Liberia child soldiers.
  • 2010: Getty Grant for Editorial Photography[9]
  • 2010: World Press Photo, Contemporary Issue (2nd Single)
  • 2010: Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards (1st Prize)[10]
  • 2011: World Press Photo (2nd Multimedia)
  • 2011: Pictures of the Year International Best Photography Book Award, for Blanco [3]
  • 2013: Special Jury Prize, Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards[11]
  • 2013: Prix du Festival de St-Brieuc, Saint Brieuc Photographie du Reportage[12]
  • 2015: Sygenta Prize.(3rd single)

References
  1. "Stefano De Luigi". Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  2. AleGlaviano (23 April 2012). "Stefano De Luigi". Vogue.it. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  3. "Best Photography Book Award". www.poy.org.
  4. "Stefano de Luigi". VII. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  5. "Fade To White, Blanco by Stefano De Luigi". Time. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  6. Wender, Jessie (21 September 2012). "Stefano De Luigi's iDyssey". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  7. "Eliotropica - Stefano De Luigi". www.eliotropica.com.
  8. "TBI Q&A: Stefano De Luigi". The Big Idea. May 9, 2012.
  9. http://imagery.gettyimages.com/getty_images_grants/recipients.aspx?date=9-2010&grant=editorial
  10. "Winner's List". Days Japan. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  11. "Winner's List". Days Japan. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  12. "Festival Photoreporter, St Brieuc".

General references
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