
Karl Mancini is an award-winning Italian documentary photographer based out of Rome and Buenos Aires. For over two decades he has worked in more than 90 countries focusing on social issues such as gender violence, environment, war aftermaths, human rights, migration. In 2022 and 2023 He was grantee from the Pulitzer Center for his long term work “In the name of wellness” on the human and environmental cost of superfood monocultures, their connection with the Latin American neocolonialism and his research on the effects of climate change on people and the planet. In 2023 He was Recipient of the Environmental Investigative Journalism grant from the Journalism Fund Europe for a socio-environmental investigation He’s doing together with the journalistic platform of which He’s founder, Ronin, that is still ongoing. His works have been exhibited in USA, England, Russia, Australia, India, Japan, Italy, Canada, Spain and in many international festivals, earning him awards in prestigious competitions like, among others, the Sony World Photography Award, Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, Days Japan International Photojournalism Award, Gomma Grant, Photon Award, Prix Visa del ANI, Kolga Awards and selected among the finalists of the prestigious Alexia Foundation Professional Grant and Leica Oscar Barnack Award. His stories have been featured in some of the most prominent magazines and newspapers from all over the world such as Newsweek, National Geographic, Stern, Der Spiegel, GEO, Marie Claire, CNN, Vanity Fair, Internazionale, El Pais, Die Zeit, L’Espresso, Nature, Aftenposten, Mare Verlag, Revista 5W, NZZ, 6 Mois, FQ Millenium among others. From January 2014 to February 2017 He has collaborated with the agency Echo Photojournalism as one of the Staff photographers. He’s currently freelance and in the last years He’s working on environmental issues related to the socio-economical consequences of neocolonialism.
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