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Stefano De Luigi / Paris, France

Born in Cologne in 1964, Italian photographer Stefano De Luigi currently lives in Paris and started his career working for the Grand Louvre Museum as a photographer from from 1989 to 1996. He has published 3 books: Pornoland (Thames & Hudson-2004), Blanco (Trolley, 2010), and iDyssey (Edition Bessard 2017).

His numerous awards include 4 World Press Photo awards (1998, 2007, 2010, 2011), Eugene Smith fellowship grant (2008), the Getty Grant for editorial photography, Days Japan International Photojournalism Award (2010), Syngenta Photography Award (2015).

Stefano works regularly with several international publications including The New Yorker, Geo, Paris Match, and Stern and has exhibited his work in New York, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Rome, London, Istanbul, and Athens.

Stefano De Luigi has been a member of the VII Agency since 2008.

SDL - Tortoise Community Liberia
A view of the Atlantic Ocean is seen from one of the demolished villas of the Tortoise community in Monrovia, Liberia on Sept. 14, 2008.
SDL - Southern Sudan
A young women is seen in a landfill, where she lives in Juba, Central Equatoria, southern Sudan on Nov. 5, 2010. A project for a increasing the quality of the security and pollution standards, supported by the Italian NGO CESVI.
SDL - Bushmeat
The skulls of 19 chimpanzees seized by the Laga (Last Great Ape Organization) a Cameroonian organization that works with law enforcement to protect the wildlife in Cameroon.
SDL - Blindness
A screening for cataract surgery patients takes place at Wuang Nua Hospital in Lampang, Thailand in November 2005. There are over 45 million people who suffer from blindness and 135 million visually impaired people worldwide.
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A soldier of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire, ONUCI, patrols the streets at night, in the Cocody area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, April 7, 2011. Cocody, where heavy fighting is now taking place, is an upmarket suburb where most of the wealthy business people, ambassadors, and other affluent people live.
SDL - Blindness
A patient receives an examination during an ophthalmologist visit at the Virunga Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo in July 2005. There are over 45 million people who suffer from blindness and 135 million visually impaired people worldwide.
SDL - Kenya Drought
A cow hides in the shadow of a warehouse in the village of Kukuro, Rift Valley province, Kenya, Oct. 4 2009.
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Once a luxury hotel during the time of Portuguese colonization, today the Beira Hotel hosts people displaced by the civil war.
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A former child soldier rests on the wall of a damaged building in the Tortoise community of Monrovia, Liberia on Sept. 14, 2008.
A woman rides an early morning bus in Milan. November 2012.
A woman rides an early morning bus in Milan. November 2012.
Memories Island
On the ship that connects Tokyo to the archipelago Ogasawara in the Pacific. Japan, April 2016.
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Palestine near the border wall with Israel near Hebron, a peasant works on a harvest. May 2017.
SDL - Blindness
A cataract surgery patient stands aboard the Life Line Express hospital train in Liupanshui, China in November 2005. "Reaching out to everyone" is the primary objective of the LIfe Line Express train. Their mission is to provide medical facilities to the less privileged sections of society in parts of the world where medical facilities are almost non-existent. There are over 45 million people who suffer from blindness and 135 million visually impaired people worldwide.
On the road between Bururi and Bujumbura, in Burundi. November 2009.
On the road between Bururi and Bujumbura, in Burundi. November 2009.
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Um Mustapha, 27 living in an house close to the gate of the souk in the Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh hardly shelled last October by the Lebanese Army Tripoli Lebanon November/December 2014
SDL - Quiet Chaos Tripoli, Lebanon
Um Mustapha, 27, lives in an house close to the gate of the souk (shopping bazaar) in the Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh shelled in October 2014 by the Lebanese Army. Tripoli Lebanon November/December 2014.
SDL - Tortoise Community Liberia
A soldier's helmet lies in the streets of the Tortoise community in Monrovia, Liberia on Sept. 14, 2008.
SDL - Somaliland
A soldier of the coastal guard of Somaliland patrols the harbor of Berbera, Somaliland on Sept. 26, 2009.
SDL - Northwest Passage
A glacier is seen off the coast of Kraushavn, Greenland, July 22, 2012. Kraushavn sits at the beginning of the Northwest Passage, a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
SDL - Kenya Drought
A giraffe lies dead, killed by drought in Wajr, North Eastern province, Kenya on Oct. 9, 2009.