PAOLO PATRIZI is a self-taught documentary photographer, whose recent stories explore a theme, common to many of us in the so-called developed world: the contradictions between traditions and modernity and cultural disconnections produced from too rapid economic growth. He began his career in London working as an assistant to other professionals. While doing some freelance assignments for British magazines and design groups, he started to develop individual projects of his own. Today, his work is featured in leading publications and exhibited internationally. His photos have won several awards with the Association of Photographers of London, have been selected for the John Kobal Portrait Award, received an Honorable Mention in the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2009, won 3rd prize in the single image Nature category of the World Press Photo Awards 2010. He has exhibited internationally; his work has been shown at the Association of Photographers in London,The National Portrait Galleries of London and Edinburgh,The Royal Photographic Society in Bath, The Mangani gallery in Fiesole and at the Tokyo Art Directors Club Gallery. Paolo's assignments have appeared in the following publications: Observer Magazine, Stern, Panorama, Corriere della Sera, GQ ,Courrier Japon, Geo, XL Semanal, Przekroj, K-magazine, Handelsblatt, European Photography, Kaze no Tabibito, Vanity Fair
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Italy: European Starlings In Rome
By Paolo Patrizi
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 20 April 2010
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Many thousands of birds wheeling through the sky above Rome at sunset prepare to roost together for the night, providing both breathtaking aerial displays and a public nuisance in the form of noise and bird droppings.
A starling flock like this is called a ‘murmuration’, a word that perfectly describes the rustle [...]

Italy: Migrant Prostitution
By Paolo Patrizi
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 2 September 2009
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I drive along country roads on the outskirts of Rome and cannot help but notice scantly clad women dot the landscape. The majority are Africans working as prostitutes to send money home to their families. Some women are working by their own choice; others are not. For nearly twenty years the women of Benin City, [...]