Grand Prize AFD/Polka Winner: Massimo Berruti
Massimo Berruti won the prestigious AFD Prize for his series Drops, water crisis in Gaza and the West Bank. 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. Massimo Berruti is an Italian photographer born in 1979 in Rome where he presently lives. 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 wha...