martinacirese

photographer

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My latest project explores the uncanny relationship between kids and humanoid robots in Italian pediatric hospitals. Check the story on @nationalgeo! Thanks Marco Pinna

http://www.nationalgeographic.it/wallpaper/2018/03/23/foto/un_robot_in_pediatria-3892937/1/

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On assignment for Il Venerdì di Repubblica – a journey through the italian gay clubbing in Berlin. Words by @toniamastrobuoni! Thanks Gianni Mascolo.

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This week on L’Espresso magazine, my journey with @giovannicoccophoto in a wild, lost and tropical Berlin. Thanks Tiziana Faraoni.

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25 years since the opening of the #STASI archives, my work #KarmaPolice explore the feelings of #oppression and #fear caused by living under constant emotional control. Featured on the Italian magazine Il Venerdì di Repubblica! Check the intense article by @toniamastrobuoni. Thanks @giannimascolo and Alessandro Grassi. 

 http://www.repubblica.it/venerdi/articoli/2016/12/12/news/stasi_25_anni_fa_si_scopri_chi_aveva_perso_l_anima_per_la_ddr-153947055/

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25 years since the opening of the #STASI archives, my work #KarmaPolice explore the feelings of #oppression and #fear caused by living under constant emotional control. Featured on the German magazine GEOkompakt! Thanks @Carlarosorius and Alessandro Grassi.

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EXOTIC BERLIN. Check out my latest project realized with Giovanni Cocco and Sarah Souli about the world’s largest indoor tropical park – built on a former nazi airplane hangar. Just featured on QUARTZ:

http://qz.com/782814/cultural-appropriation-the-worlds-largest-indoor-tropical-park-tropical-islands-is-inside-a-former-nazi-airplane-hangar-in-germany/

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I was in Paris when I met Asan. I was caught by his mental universe of anxiety, straying and questioning. I started to take pictures in every corner, light or wall he was leaning in, traveling from Europe to Asia, across the cities where he grew up. I followed him like a trail, a clue, a hint, while facing his and my own contradictions. As we chased each other, I was lead into intertwined, overlaid worlds: photographing him became a new way of discovering myself. In his unique personality I have seen a surreal representation of the individual isolation in our society.

http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/martina-cirese-asnakojo/

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Night(e)scapes – a multimedia trip through the Italian landscape seen at night. Produced by Fabrica, exhibited at Il Museo di Roma in Trastevere and at the Fotografia Europea Festival, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Photos by Martina Cirese, Sounds by Geremia Vinattieri, Videos by Christian Coppe. Check out videos, photos and texts featured on Internazionale!

http://www.fabrica.it/nightescapes-2/

http://www.internazionale.it/opinione/flash/2015/06/24/nightescapes-langhe-video

http://www.internazionale.it/opinione/flash/2015/07/02/nightescapes-venezia-video

http://www.internazionale.it/opinione/flash/2015/07/09/nightescapes-napoli-video

http://www.internazionale.it/opinione/flash/2015/07/16/nightescapes-craco-fabrica-video

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DISPERATA EROTICA URBE - on assignment for L’ESPRESSO, summer 2014, exploring the inner soul of Rome through Jhumpa Lahiri’s words. Amazing text by Wlodek Goldkorn. 

http://espresso.repubblica.it/foto/2014/08/21/galleria/nella-roma-di-martina-cirese-lo-sguardo-si-fa-poesia-1.177589#1

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IO DONNA – stories and portraits from “Peninsula” group of artists, designers, curators and art critics largely Italian, who have settled in Berlin during the past decade (http://www.peninsula.land/). Intriguing text by Andrea Bajani, check it out!

http://www.iodonna.it/attualita/storie-e-reportage/2016/01/16/vedi-berlino-e-poi-sparisci/

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Gianfranco Franciosi is one of the best motorboat mechanics in Europe and could fit a couple of engines onto a boat and make it travel at 90 miles per hour. This is what earned him the attention of European and South American drug smugglers.

When they called at his boatyard in Liguria on the north-west Italian coast asking for his services, he knew it would be hard to say no so he agreed and contacted the police and offered to work undercover for them as well. For three years, Franciosi, now aged 36, worked with the drug cartels, building and piloting boats packed with cocaine and weapons, unloading them off the Italian, French and Spanish coasts.

He has been called Italy’s Donnie Brasco, although he is not a police officer but now Franciosi has left the Italian government’s witness protection program, furious at their inability to help him live a normal life, out of the reach of the gangs that have vowed to kill him.

Franciosi would find bullets on his doorstep or on his car windscreen outside his protected accomodation. The acts of intimidation escalated when his boat yard near Genoa was burnt to the ground. He says his life has fallen apart since he became a protected witness and he has contemplated suicide. When asked if he would work with the police against the drug runners, he replies: “I’d never do what I did back in that cursed year, 2007.”

“Some people ask me why I am still alive. If they can find me, why wouldn’t they kill me? I don’t have an answer to that. A policeman once told me that they are trying to scare me to death. At least, for the moment. The drug cartels can ask anyone for a favor and knock me off. I already know that. I just hope that my time will come later rather than sooner.”

Gianfranco Franciosi, Rome, February 2015. Text by Lorenzo Tondo, Photo by Martina Cirese. Featured on Il Venerdì-La Repubblica, Time.com and Internazionale, 2014.

http://time.com/4098204/donnie-brasco-italy-mafia/

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Global campaign on assignment for United Colors of Benetton/ UN WOMEN - Fabrica. “Facing” 2014 – stop violence against women now! 

http://www.fabrica.it/end-violence-against-women-now-2/

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BENETTON - UNHATE “RED SQUARE” - social campaign for @unhatenews on assignment for Fabrica, the Benetton communication research center. Light up Moscow’s Red Square to protect and respect LGBTQ rights! http://www.fabrica.it/gay-pride-2/

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“L’Europa che non voglio” – cover story for Internazionale, shot in occasion of the European elections in 2014. Editorial project produced by Fabrica, the communication research center of Benetton.

http://www.cloudit-107.internazionale.it/foto/2014/05/23/leuropa-che-non-voglio

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TAXI POWER - cover story for l’ESPRESSO.

http://inchieste.repubblica.it/it/espresso/2012/01/05/news/taxi_power-27626529/