MODERATOR
JEFF ISRAELY
Jeff Israely is the co-founder and editor of Worldcrunch. A former Time magazine bureau chief in Rome and Paris, he has also been a correspondent for the Associated Press, Boston Globe and Oakland Tribune. He teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism of the Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).
PANELLISTS
ANDREA BRUCE
Andrea Bruce is a documentary photographer whose work brings attention to people living in the aftermath of war. She concentrates on the social issues that are sometimes ignored and often ignited in war's wake.
Andrea’s work started in 2003, Iraq, where she focussed on the obstacles of the conflict experienced by Iraqis and the US military. Over the last decade, she has chronicled some of the world’s most troubled areas. She has worked within various agencies and institutions, including the Washington Post, where she authored the column Unseen Iraq. Andrea went on to join the VII Network before becoming a member of the NOOR agency and foundation.
She has been named Photographer of the Year on four occasions by the White House News Photographers Association, and has been awarded 2nd prize in the category Daily Life by the World Press Photo Foundation. Andrea is the recipient of multiple awards, grants and fellowships, including; the International Pictures of the Year contest, the prestigious John Faber Award from the Overseas Press Club, NY.
FRANCESCO ZIZOLA
Francesco Zizola (IT) has documented some of the world's major conflicts and the social and humanitarian issues that define human life, keeping intact his strong ethical commitment and signature aesthetic sensibility. In 2008, Zizola founded 10b Photography, Rome, a centre for contemporary digital photography and visual culture.
Through his many assignments and projects, he has travelled around the world to carefully portray forgotten crises often disregarded in the mainstream media cycle. His work has been awarded on several occasions over the years, including four Picture of the Year International awards, and ten awards from the World Press Photo Foundation. His work has been published in seven books, among which Uno Sguardo Inadeguato (Collana Grandi Autori, FIAF, 2013), Iraq (Ega/Amnesty International, 2007) and Born Somewhere (Delpire/Fusi Orari, 2004), an extensive work on the living conditions of children from 27 different countries.
In 2018 he was awarded the SIAE Prize for Creative Talent at the Venice Film Festival for his movie 'As if we were tuna', selected for 'Giornate degli autori', the autonomous review inside the Festival'
OLGA KRAVETS
Olga Kravets is a journalist by education. She started to take photographs as an alternative means of expression in Russia, where press freedom continues to be a struggle. Filmmaking came naturally after that, a love at first sight. She decided not to choose among the three mediums but combine them all for the sake of the story, be it a week-long reportage or a long-term project.
She is fluent in English, Russian and French. She has working knowledge of Serbo-Croatian and Ukrainian, but she also enjoys working in countries where she does not speak the language.
In 2018, she accomplished her longest project up to date, Grozny: Nine Cities. Since 2009 she has been exploring the complexity of the aftermath of the two gruesome wars in the tiny North Caucasian republic of Chechnya. Together with Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko, they produced a three-screen installation, a web-documentary that won the 2014 Prix-Bayeux Calvados for war correspondents and a book that launched at Les Rencontres de la Photographie, in Arles, accompanied by an exhibition of the project during the festival.
Currently she is working on a documentary feature set across Europe, taking pictures, filming and directing for media, institutions and companies, as well as teaching documentary storytelling. She works principally in ex-USSR, Europe and Middle East and she is always happy to expand her geography.
ALLISON CRANK
With a Master's from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) in Advanced Studies, Design Research in Digital Innovation, Crank works at the intersection of art, technology, and digital user experience. She helped conceive and design the Pix.T platform.
STEFANO CARINI
Born in Torino, Italy in 1985, Carini is the Creative Director of NOOR Images and the NOOR Foundation.
An independent thinker, visual artist, photographer, curator, book designer, writer and filmmaker Carini’s core interest lays in visual education, visual literacy and indigenous production of visual work. After studying photography and photojournalism in London, UK and Arhus, Denmark, he briefly worked as photo editor for NOOR Images in Amsterdam before moving to Iraq where he lead Metrography, the first Iraqi photo agency through the war with ISIS and until October 2015 producing several bodies of work which were exhibited across Europe. In 2016 he co-founded DARST Projects, an independent cultural hub for the research, production and publishing of documentary projects that produced ground breaking projects ever since. Carini trains photographers and visual storytellers in Europe and The Middle East and has given lectures at different institutions across the world. He has led visual laboratories with children in the Roma community, with refugees and IDPs in Iraq and with students across Europe.
He is based in Torino Italy where he lives with his two children.
