Photography in society 2.0

roBOt festival asked Spazio Labo' | Centro di Fotografia, in collaboration with DataTrade Apple Premium Reseller, if they could think up a further event for the festival, on the theme of photography in society 2.0. roBOt were in luck and Spazio Labo’ had the means to ask two important professionals in the word of Italian photography to come together to illustrate how the process of taking photos, management and fruition of the images has evolved over the years from their point of view as photographer and photo editor.
Samuele Pellecchia, photographer, will be showing to the public his way of taking pictures, his way of preparing and presenting his work.
Maurizio Garofalo, journalist and photo editor, will be sharing his own experience in the phases of “gathering findings”  for a reportage and will be discussing how much and also how sources and distribution canals have changed.

Samuele Pellecchia was born in Milan in 1972. In 1999, after having followed a course in Philosophy, he started working as a photojournalist. In 2004 he founded Prospekt and started the PK project.
Over the last few years he has carried out reportages in Kosovo, Macedonia, Algeria, Cuba, Palestine, East Europe, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, South America, Lao PDR, Brazil and Ghana. In 2006 he was an author in the \"Water Corp. Human Right or Commodity\" project, in collaboration with Amnesty International. In 2006 and 2009 he won first prize in the journalist contest “Enzo Baldoni”. He is currently living and working in Milan.

Maurizio Garofalo was born in 1959 and has lived in Ancona, Venice, Florence, Naples, Rome and Milan. After having graduated in Architecture he started working as a freelance which he abandoned after 4 years in order to devote himself to editorial graphics and photography. He works with various newspapers, both daily and weekly. He develops  information systems in the publishing sector. As a professional journalist, from 2000 to 2009 he was the Art Director and Photo editor at “Diario”, managed by Enrico Deaglio. “Diario” is a newspaper which won the International prize "Guide de la Presse" for being the best newspaper in the world (together with the Serbian daily paper "Danas").