Marco Panzetti (born 1981, in Bergamo, Italy) is a documentary photographer, multimedia journalist and visual artist whose work focuses on the socio-environmental impact of contemporary issues related to the globalization process.
Marco Panzetti is a freelance documentary photographer, multimedia journalist and visual artist. His work focuses on the socio-environmental impact of contemporary issues related to the globalization process. With his projects, he looks into new migration [1] [2] paradigms, mass tourism and fast urbanization.
He carried out projects in Europe, Latin America and Asia, frequently in collaboration or on assignment for nonprofit organizations and magazines. He also works with different audiovisual formats (video, audio and VR) to create short documentary films, immersive multimedia pieces and installations.
At the beginning of his career in photography, he was apprentice to the photographer Michel Huneault and worked as his personal assistant in 2014 and 2015.
Among other publications, his work appeared in BBC News, [3] The Times, Vice, British Red Cross, LA Times, Internazionale, [4] New Statesman, Diari Ara, Tages-Anzeiger, and the Sydney Morning Herald.
His long-term body of work on the European migrant crisis, 'The Idea of Europe' (2015 – present) received international recognition including an Honorable Mention at the 2017 Lange-Taylor Prize [5] and the first prize in the video category at the 2017 Migration Media Award.