Born in Bologna, Italy in 1973, I got into professional photography quite late. After a degree in biology at the University of Bologna and a specialization in tropical medicine, I joined Medecins Sans Forntieres (MSF), a humanitarian aid agency, in 2005. During my free time on missions with MSF as a biologist, I took pictures of patients and other people in distress in various contexts and countries. As the second prize winner of a photography contest, I attended a workshop in 2006, organized by the Toscana Photographic Workshop and held by Antonin Kratochvil (VII Photo Agency). In the same year I won the National Prize of One Vision European Competition with “Looking Forward”. At the beginning of 2008 I decided to become a full time professional photographer and to leave MSF. I'm based in Madrid, Spain and since October 2008 I joined PkPosse, an Italian based agency linked with Prospekt.
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India: The Transgender World
By Alessandro Vincenzi
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 31 May 2009
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During British raj the colonials passed a law in which the transgenders were described as “sodomites” and people who did “homosexual offense”. This was the first time ever that transgenders were openly discriminated against in Indian History.
There is an estimation of more than 25000 transgenders in Mumbai floating from one place to the other within [...]

Ukraine: Forgotten Italians
By Alessandro Vincenzi
Posted in all, features, europe on 21 January 2009
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From 1830 to the end of the XIX century an Italian migratory flux, mainly from Puglia (Italy), reached Crimea, at that moment part of the Russian Empire. With the beginning of Communism the destiny of these Italians worsened, until ending up in a tragedy.

In 1830 and 1870 two migratory fluxes arrived in Kerch, Crimea, from [...]

Moldova: Waiting for Mom
By Alessandro Vincenzi
Posted in all, features, europe on 22 December 2008
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Almost 100.000 legal Moldovians live in Italy, plus an estimation of almost 500.000 living illegally. Around 70% of them are women, that move to another country in order to look for better opportunities for them and their family. The fathers are often absent, because they are divorced, busy to work in farms or alcoholics. The [...]