BIOGRAPHY
Antonio Faccilongo is an Italian documentary photographer, filmmaker and photography professor.
He is Fujifilm X-Photographer ambassador and represented by Getty Reportage.
After graduating in communication sciences, and then obtaining a masters in photojournalism, he focused his attention on Asia and the Middle East, principally in Israel and Palestine, covering social, political and cultural issues.
Documenting the aftermath of Palestinian-Israeli conflict in West Bank and Gaza Strip, he sought to unveil and highlight the humanitarian issues hidden within one of the world’s most reported conflicts, because too often it is shown only as a place of war and conflict.
His long-term projects about women and their families in Palestine have received several awards and grants including World Press Photo story of the year, 1st prize in long-term projects category at World Press Photo, FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo, Getty editorial grant and 1st prize World Understanding Award at POYi Pictures of the year International.
Other awards and honors have included being recognized by PhMuseum, Gomma Grant, LuganoPhotoDays, Umbria World Fest, Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards, PDN Photo Annual Awards, Feature Shoot and was finalist at Visa D'or and Lucas Dolega and shortlisted 2 times at Alexia Foundation.
Furthermore his long-term projects have been exhibited internationally at numerous shows and festivals including 2 times at World Press Photo Festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Zoom Festival, Festival della fotografia etica, Exposure Photography Festival, Buenos Aires Biennial, screened at Visa pour l'image Perpignan and was included on global campaign #WomenMatter against the violence toward women made by Dysturb.
His work and assignments have been published in some of the most prominent international publications including National Geographic, Time, Stern, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Geo, The Guardian, 6Mois, Paris Match, Focus, Sette, L'Espresso, Internazionale and many others.
AWARDS
Award of Excellence POYi Pictures of the year in Science and Natural picture story category 2023
World Press Photo Story of the Year 2021
1st prize in Long-Term Projects category at World Press Photo 2021
National Geographic Society's Covid-19 Emergency Fund 2021
Shortlisted in environment category at Sony Photography Awards 2021
Winner at Feature Shoot 2021
Winner at Fotoevidence Book Award with World Press Photo 2020
Winner at PDN Photo Annual Awards 2020 in the category photojournalism
Shortlisted at Alexia Foundation award 2020
Winner POYi Pictures of the year in World Understand Award category 2019
Finalist Lucas Dolega award 2019
Shortlisted at Alexia Foundation award 2019
Getty Editorial Grant 2017
2nd prize PHMuseum Grant 2017
Finalist Visa D'or Feature 2017
Finalist LensCulture Magnum Awards 2017
Best Color Documentary work Gomma Grant 2016
1st prize LuganoPhotoDays 2016
1st prize Umbria World Fest 2016
3rd prize Px3 Prix de la Photographie in Feature Category 2016
Finalist LensCulture Portrait Awards 2016
Finalist Fotoleggendo Premio Tabò 2016
1st prize at MIFA in Sport category 2015
Finalist at Lensculture Visual Storytelling Awards 2015
1st prize Px3 Prix de la Photographie in Feature Category 2011
1st prize WPGA The Worlwide Photography Gala Awards 2011
1st prize IPA International Photography Awards in People 2011
1st prize KLPA Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2011
1st prize WOW World Of Women 2011
2nd prize IPA International Photography Awards 2011 in Political Category
3rd prize OC Nature 2010
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Head On Festival (Sidney, Australia)
2022 Festival TERRA! (Rome, Italy)
2022 Narrativa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022 Biofilia - Biennale Arte e Ambiente (Genoa, Italy)
2021 World Press Photo festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2021 IMP International Month of Photojournalism (Padua, Italy)
2021 Exposure Photography Festival (Calgary, Canada)
2020 World Press Photo festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2020 Indian Photo Festival (Hyderabad, India)
2020 Festival della fotografia etica (Lodi, Italy)
2019 Zoom Photo Festival (Canada, Quebec)
2017 Visa pour l'image - Screening (France, Perpignan)
2017 Voies Off - Les Rencontres de la photographie (France, Arles)
2017 #WomenMatter global campaign on women by Disturb
2017 Umbria World Fest (Italy, Foligno)
2017 Cortona on the move - Screening (Italy, Cortona)
2017 Denver Month of Photography (Usa, Denver)
2017 Festival de Tiradentes (Brazil, Tiradentes)
2017 Focus Photography Festival (India, Mumbai)
2017 FORMAT International Photography Festival (Uk, Derby)
2017 Odessa Photo Days Festival 2017 (Usa, Denver)
2017 Los Angeles Festival of Photography (Usa, Los Angeles)
2017 Belfast Photo Festival (Wales, Belfast)
2017 Copenhagen Photo Festival (Denmark, Copenhagen)
2017 ViennaPhotoBookFestival (Austria, Vienna)
2017 StreetFoto (Usa, San Francisco)
2016 LuganoPhotoDays (Switzerland, Lugano)
2016 Tbilisi Photo Festival (Georgia, Tbilisi)
2016 Organ Vida (Croatia, Zagreb)
2015 One Photo For Everyone for Save The Children (Italy, Rome)
2015 Fotoleggendo (Italy, Rome)
2014 PPA Festival (Czech Republic, Prague)
2013 Naked City Project (Italy, Rome)
2013 PPA Festival (Czech Republic, Prague)
2013 Trenčianske Teplic Festival (Slovakia, Trenčianske Teplic)
2012 Buenos Aires Biennial (Argentina, Buenos Aires)
2012 PPA 2012 (Czech Republic, Prague)
2011 Foto8 Summer Show (England, London)
2011 PX3 Winning work (France, Paris)
2011 HPA Humanity Photo Exhibition (China, Beijing)
2011 Photography Gala (USA, Washington)
2011 MAP KL White Box Gallery (Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)
2011 Lucie Awards Foundation (USA, New York)
2011 WOW World Of Women! (Italy, Venice)
