Italian, b. 1970
Alessandro is an Italian photographer and journalist interested in documenting changes in the contemporary world: social phenomena, cultural trends, ecological transitions.
After a degree in philosophy (University of Parma), he attended the IFG, Institute of Journalism (Urbino), and worked as a writing journalist at the Italian newspaper La Repubblica until 2001, when he decided to choose photography and visual narrative as his storytelling medium.
Through the years, his photos and reportages have appeared in solo and group exhibitions and have been published in worldwide magazines and won awards including Sony World Photography Awards, POY – Pictures of the Year and Best of Photojournalism.
Together with three other photographers he founded the photo agency Parallelozero in 2008. He left the agency in 2024.