The AFD / Polka Grand Prix for the Best Photo Report Project was won by Massimo Berruti for his project: “Drops. Water crisis in Gaza and the West Bank”
He won 15,000 euros to be able to finance a reportage and its publication in the magazine Polka.
After a few photography courses, Massimo Berruti stopped his biology studies in 2003 to delve deeper into photography. A freelance photographer since 2004, he started to work in Eastern Europe and mostly Italy. There he focused on immigration, suburbs and the industrial crisis plaguing the region.
"It is very rare that one experiences so directly, before a photographic work, the feeling of what inspired it and of what from day to day was its purpose. It is especially so as this feeling is completely contrary to what we think – or believe – we know of war photography"
Christian Caujolle in "Lashkars" Ed Actes Sud 2011
Massimo Berruti was the laureate of the 2009 City of Perpignan Young Reporter's Award and laureate of the Carmignac Gestion Prize of Photojournalism in 2010. In 2012, he was recipient of the Eugene Smith Fellowship for « The Dusty Path », his work on Pakistan.
Since 2008 he has been working on an extensive documentary work about the changing society in Pakistan. The last chapter of this work is focused on the victims of drone attacks from whom Massimo has made portraits from 2011 to 2013.
Agence VU
www.massimoberruti.net
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