Image Gallery
About me
Giacomo Palermo graduated in "Science and Technologies of Communication" from the University of Rome La Sapienza and is a photojournalist, visual communicator and unconventional blogger working on sociological, humanitarian and environmental ethical research in the Mediterranean Area and mainly in Sicily.
Contributor for Italian and international multimedia media publishers such as l'Osservatore Romano, Getty Images Inc., Touring Club Italia, Majority World CIC - Global - Photo Agency, The MEGA Agency - LLC, GEDI S.p.a. Editorial Group, La Repubblica, National Geographic Italia, La Sicilia, La Discussione, Aleteia.org, America Oggi, La Voce di New York, Splash News, CrossInMedia Foundation, Agenzia Fotogramma, IPA Photo Agency and others.
He has received diplomatic awards such as the "Piersanti Mattarella Award" the Ecu Film Fest's "White Palm" for "Ecumenical Cinema for Interreligious Dialogue", the Jury Prize for photography of Agrigento's Almond Tree in Bloom (category "Tourism in the World") 33° INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST ASFA - FIAP REPUBBLICA DI SAN MARINO and that of the Italian Federation of Photographic Associations dedicated to Tina Modotti.
He was selected by Magnum Photos in "The Magnum Connect Program".
With a scholarship from the Italy - USA Foundation (partner the United Nations), he obtained a diplomatic master's degree in "Leadership for International Relations and Made in Italy".
He exhibited in the "International Center of Photography" in Palermo founded by Letizia Battaglia.
Magnum
"The Mediterranean represents the dividing line between wealth and poverty, peace and war, freedom and oppression. Pivotal elements in the works of Giacomo Palermo who tells through the photo - chronicle as allegory and not as object, the story of a mestizo humanity, a mirror of Mediterranean cultural syncretism in its broadest sense. Today, our memory is full of an infinite amount of snapshots taken with cell phones that distract us of the extraordinary beauty of the photographic art, the photo having entered everyone's daily life, changing the idea of the moment imprinted in a shot as a memory. Giacomo Palermo's photographs manage with simplicity to mythologize the Mediterranean, as a representation of nature and the human, contrast and synthesis at the same time allowing us to visit this strategic Geopolitical Area without moving and enjoying the space-time uniqueness of the authentic shot of a place as a story and a story as a story".
Text presentation by Giacomo Palermo of Prof. Aurelio Angelini UNESCO Sicily Foundation
