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Alessandra Bonaventura - CONTRASTO
Kontakt: | Alessandra Bonaventura |
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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=19&b=1 |
"Alessandra Bonaventura was born in Rome in 1976. After
graduating high school, she moved to Venice for university in
Classical Studies where she attended courses and seminars of
the history and technique of photography taught by Italo
Zannier.
In 1998 she returned to Rome and perfected her photographic
training at the Metastudio of Giovanni Canitano, where she took
an interest in portraiture and advertising photography.
Simultaneously, she directed her photographic research towards
the underground realm of theater productions, where she was
able to collaborate with numerous Italian and foreign theater
companies, one in particular was with producer Naira Gonzalez
of the Odin Theater. She worked with several Milanese art
galleries, such as Seti-arte on the publication of a catalogue
of Inuit art for an anthropology exhibition at the Pigorni
Ethnographic Museum in Rome.
In the past months, she worked on a reportage of illegal rave
parties and young Italian and foreign gangs, which aired on the
Italian station RAI during their series "Night and
Culture."
She is presently working on a project about Italian
television, which takes her back to original interests in
portraiture and stage design. She entered Contrasto in
2000."
"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."