Michele Pavana

Michele Pavana (b.1988) italian photojournalist.
HIGHLIGHT
Last long term projects and reportage: the refugees crisis in Europe , news photography in Greece, after the deadliest fire of the last 30 years, work in the Middle East and the Arab spring, a project about the overseas Chinese around the globe, a work about the South American criminal gangs, and the pandemic situation of the SarsCov2. I had the honor to became a student of Alex Majoli (Magnum Photo Agency) at Cesura Lab, in Pianello Val Tidone. I work with national and international magazine. Nowadays I work with Leica Camera, as “Certified By Leica” photographer, on documentary photography, for long term projects, reportage and advertising.
NOTABLE
Participation:
• 2015/ 2019/ 2022 World Press Photo Contest
• 2019/2022 Sony World Photography Awards
• Global Peace Photo Award 2022
• Diversify Photo x Getty Images Inclusion Grant 2022 • Athens Photo World Award
• Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award

• “Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens” by The University of Hong Kong and The State University of New York
• “Learning Chinese” by National Taiwan University
• “East Asian Religions & Ecology” by Yale University
• “Asian Environmental Humanities: Landscapes in Transition” by University of Zurich
• “Understanding Korean Politics” by Yonsei University
• “Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth
Century Japan” by The University of Tokyo
• “Natural Creativity” by Parsons School of Design, The New School, New
York
• “Chinese Culture and Contemporary China” by Nanjing University
• “After the Arab Spring – Democratic Aspirations and State Failure” by University of Copenhagen
• Course “Introduction to photojournalism - capture powerful stories” with Finbarr O’Really (The New York Times)
• Course “ Photojournalism and social photography” by Manu Brabo (Pulitzer Price Winner)
• Course “ XI and The New Chinese Era” by ISPI School - Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale

The “Great Hellenic Fire” exhibition - Trento