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Francesco Cocco - CONTRASTO
Kontakt: | Francesco Cocco |
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Tel.: | +39 06 328281 |
Fax: | +39 06 32828240 |
E-Mail: | international:annalisasalsano-asalsano@contrasto.it |
Web: | http://www.contrasto.it/eng/photographers/dettaglio.asp?idf=952&b=1 |
"He was born in 1960 in Recanati, but lives and works in
Carpi. He began his career as photographer in 1989.
Images shot by Cocco tell social problems of those living on
the edge of society. His photos have been published on Italian
and International magazines as well as shown in collective
exhibitions. Photography and interest for mankind in his
habitat pushed him to travel worldwide, mostly throughout Asian
countries. In Banghladesh he portrayed the living conditions of
street children and minorile work. In Vietnam, shortly after
the reopening of frontiers, he realized a reportage whose
images have been exposed in the "Vietnam Today" exhibition
(Modena, 1993). Subsequently, he offered himself to document
the drama of anti-personnel landmines victims in Cambodia, in
collaboration with Emergency NGO. Still in Cambodia, thanks to
the New Humanity NGO, Cocco extended his work to minorile
prostitution.
In 1999 and 2000, in Brazil, he portrayed blind men at the
Benjamin Constant Institute, in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the
exploitation of working children at Marajoa Island, in
Amazonia. During the same year, a selection of his pictures
about childhood shocked by war has been shown in the exhibition
"Ci Sono Bambini A Zig-Zag", held in Carpi.
In 2000, Kosovo, within the educational project "Peace Seeds",
financed by the Rainbow Mission in Mitrovica, he carried out a
work of documentation about living conditions of civilians in
postwar period.
Over the past years, Cocco started a personal research about
handicap and the world of the so-called "different abilities".
This work, still in progress, is named "Babylon". In 2001 he
realized a work on Pediatric Onco-hematology ward of Bologna
Sant'Orsola Hospital.
In 2002 he began his project to document prison conditions in
Italy, both in female and male prisons. The reportage was
assigned by the Equal Opportunity Commission of Carpi with the
sponsorship of High Patronage of the President of the
Republic.
From 2003 he has been collaborating with MSF on a long-term
project about immigration in Italy. At the end of the same
year, with other thirteen photographers, he took part to a
project named "Eurogeneration", a photo survey on youth all
over the 25 countries of the enlarged European Union. In 2004,
those images were exhibited at Palazzo Reale, in Milan, and
became a book published by Contrasto.
Francesco Cocco joined Contrasto in 2003."
"Contrasto is a unique enterprise in the field of photography. Contrasto was born in the 80's to be a point of reference for quality photojournalism.
The agency's photographers, in addition to its close contact with the information and culture worlds, allows Contrasto to be a leader in the field of author photography.
Its vast range of activities (production and distribution of images for journalism, advertising and image consulting, fashion and publishing, archives available online) is guaranteed by the various resources it draws from; Most notably Magnum, the prestigious agency founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Contrasto is publishing house as well, working to realize photographic books, and exhibits in cooperation with Italy's public and private institutions.
The high level of Contrasto photographers' amounts to a gallery of unique images suitable for collecting purposes as well."