Biography
Francesco Pistilli is an Italian documentary photographer, cinematographer and photography professor.
He is the recipient of the World Press Photo award 2018 (General News Stories) for his series Lives in Limbo.
His work has been published and distributed widely on several international magazine and media outlets including: TIME, National Geographic, Nature, Liberation, BBC, M le Monde, L'Espresso, Internazionale, Politico, Die Zeit, Wired, Elle, D Repubblica, Vanity Fair, Financial Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Republik.ch, The Independent UK.
Francesco's archive is distributed by Laif Agency.
He frequently works for NGOs and Foundations: Emergency, IRC International Rescue Committee, Open Society Foundations, AVSI Foundation, Care Intl., CUAMM, British Red Cross, WAM We Animals Media, WAP World Animal Protection, Emergenza Sorrisi, MEDU, Greenpeace.
Francesco has been working in: Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Senegal, South Sudan, Liberia, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Mozambique, Moldova, Philippines, Iraq, India, Brazil, West Bank, Costa Rica, Israel, Uruguay, Egypt, Hungary, Greece, Argentina, Indonesia and Turkey.