I enjoyed attending the National Geographic Festival in Milan, whose theme this year was “Capitale Naturale” (Natural Capital)…
“Vor bald zehn Jahren startete China seine Belt-and-Road-Initiative. Viel beschrieben, bleibt sie schwer greifbar. Der italienische Fotograf Davide Monteleone dokumentiert die physische Seite des Megaprojekts.”
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"Almost ten years ago, China launched its Belt and Road Initiative. Much described, it remains elusive. Italian photographer Davide Monteleone documents the physical side of the mega-project."
“The landscapes in Davide Monteleone’s images of China’s belt and road initiative are very familiar to me. We can see desert, uninhabited wasteland and views along the Yangtze River and in north-west China. There are also photographs showing the characters “Stay strong, Wuhan!” on skyscrapers in neon lights.
Ai Weiwei
"Sinomocene: The Flow of the Money."
Miriam Zlobinsky interviewed me about my project on the Chinese economic footprint for ReVue.
The title "Sinomocene" is a free combination of ancient Greek and Latin words and, according to Davide Monteleone, explains his work: China, money, and new paths. In an interview with the photographer, Miriam Zlobinski explores how to create a visual experience out of a geopolitical issue. MORE..
In January 2022, I was invited to give a presentation of my project “Sinomocene” - a visual investigation about China’s economic initiative known as Belt and Road - at the National Geographic Storytelling Summit. In the video, I elaborate on the origin and challenges in the making project.
“The Italian photographer Davide Monteleone has spent nearly twenty years in Russia. It was there, on the eastern border, that he observed the beginnings of the Chinese "New Silk Roads" initiative announced by President Xi Jinping in 2013. A pharaonic investment of $1,000 billion aimed at strengthening the Middle Kingdom's presence in the world, through maritime, road and rail infrastructures. railways. A geopolitical enthusiast, the 48-year-old photographer three times awarded the prestigious World Press prize (2007, 2009 and 2011), embarked in 2014, in a vast enterprise of documentation of the impacts of this expansion. A project for which he received a grant from the National Geography Storytelling Fellows in 2019.”
Happy to share a brief interview on “La Lettura - Corriere Della Sera” about Sinomocene.
My work about the epic journey on the Nordic Odyssey cargo ship has been published in Le Chasse Marée magazine.
On the occasion of the National Geographic Fest 2021, I will have the pleasure of being interviewed by Marco Cattaneo, director of National Geographic Italia.
My speech - to be held on Nov. 8th, 3 pm -will focus on analysing some of my recent works to discuss the industrial and economic transition towards a more sustainable future.
Ethiopia-Djibouti’s chapter of my project Sinomocene is on the latest issue of Courrier International.
The Cambodian section of my latest project, Sinomocene, has been released on D La Repubblica magazine.
To discover more about the whole story, please click here.
I’m happy to be part of this new “Kind of…Management” which will represent me for commercial work in Italy.
Chi sono e cosa vogliono i “Puteens”, un’ intervista di Riccardo Liberatore sulle pagine di Open sul mio progetto “Meet The Puteens”.
“Oggi hanno una ventina d’anni. Alle ultime elezioni presidenziali in Russia, nel 2018, ne stavano per compiere 18. Sono cresciuti in un’epoca in cui la politica russa è stata dominata da un’unica persona, Vladimir Putin, eccezion fatta per una breve parentesi in cui ha fatto la staffetta con Dmitrij Medvedev, presidente dal 2008 al 2012. Davide Monteleone, fotografo italiano di fama mondiale e vincitore di tre World Press Photo Awards, li ha soprannominati Puteens in un servizio del 2018, una crasi tra il nome del leader russo e teenager.”
RAInews24, the Italian National Boradcast, interwied me about the current situation in Russia, the protests against Putin and my work on the “Puteens”, the generation of Russian youth that met only Putin as a leader of the country.
Interview by Eefje Ludwig on Lensculture about The April Theses
The ”Sinomocene” project, already supported by National Geographic Society, is selected among the finalists for the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) 2020.
“In his “Sinomocene” series, the Italian photographer (born 1974) explores the impact produced by the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which reflects China’s growing presence around the globe. Spanning four continents, the project is documented photographically on location in - among other places - Ethiopia, Djibouti, Italy, Cambodia and Kazakhstan.”
The two winners (main and newcomers) will be announced October 22nd.
Fondation Carmignac is pleased to present “Carmignac Photojournalism Award: 10 Years of Reportage”, on view from July 4 to November 1, 2020 at the Villa Carmignac on the Island of Porquerolles.
A very important initiative promoted by Perimetro to help Pope Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo to face the Covid-19 emergency.
For a week you can help to enforce the intensive care unit by purchasing a print (or more) from the 100 photographs donated by the authors.
Here’s the website for more info or to browse the beautiful gallery of available photographs: https://perimetro.eu/100fotografiperbergamo/
Let’s keep strong!
The upcoming project “Almost Automated Ladscape of Geopolitical Interest” was among the finalist of the 2019 BMW Residency.
i have donated works to Art on Postcard to help raise money for the Hepatitis C Trust. My photograph will be exhibited anonymously alongside over 575 others at Photo London (16-19 MAY 2019). Auction runs 8-22nd May on Paddle8.
Albertina and Yaquelin Contreras, a mother and daughter who were separated for nearly six weeks by U.S. authorities in 2018 to have entered the country from Mexico attended the State of The Union. Senator Jeff Merkley, who invited them, have seen their potrtait on the cover of feb. 2019 Time Magazine. Albertina, 27, and her daughter, who turns 12 on Feb. 5, were featured on TIME magazine’s Feb. 4 cover as part of a special report on global migration, to which I contributed with my portraits.
Over 750 years after Marco Polo, photographer Davide Monteleone traces stretches of the new Silk Road, a mega-project initiated by China in 2013.
“The Puteens” the story I did with Noah Sneider for the Economist is now reviewed on the Amnesty International Magazine.
"Russia’s mighty Volga river stretches 2,193 miles (3,530 kilometers) from the northwest of Moscow down to the Caspian Sea in the south. It’s the country’s principle waterway and the historic cradle of the entire state. Along Volga’s banks, Ivan the Terrible began Russia’s expansion during the 16th century, the Battle of Stalingrad claimed over 1.5 million lives in Volgograd in the early 1940s, and Vladimir Lenin was born in 1870 in Ulyanovsk. And now, in 2018, four cities along this monumental stretch of water will host World Cupmatches.
While football fever may have consumed large parts of Russia during the tournament, Italian photographer Davide Monteleone, who spent 10 days exploring cities and towns along the Volga during the event, was most interested in the region’s deep-rooted culture and customs."
A portfolio from the series "Arctic Coordinates" is on the latest issue of GEO Collection.
A selection of Davide Monteleone's new series will be presented during MIA Photo Fair in Milano, at Heillandi Gallery
March 9-12 | Stand 32, Corridoio A e Stand 33, Corridoio B
The Mall Porta Nuova
Piazza Lina Bo Bardi, 1
Milano – Italia
*Davide Monteleone is the winner of Codice MIA prize 2017
"In the fall, the photographer Davide Monteleone traced stretches of one of the land routes, travelling from Yiwu, in the southeastern province of Zhejiang, to Khorgos, home to one of the world’s largest dry ports, and to Aktau, in Kazakhstan, on the Caspian Sea."
"Issue #7866" begins all the way back in 1917 with Moscow-based Italian photographer David Monteleone’s new book The April Theses, an immersive retracing of Lenin’s journey back to Russia from political exile in Zürich. Uncovering notes, bills and letters enabled the photographer to re-imagine a near step-by-step route, going so far as to dress in a suit similar to one Lenin might have worn, growing his beard, and adopting his stance to assume his role, in photographs taken in places Lenin would have travelled through.
