FOAM MAGAZINE #20 / TALENT / DAVID MONTELEONE

Davide Monteleone

Davide Monteleone was born in 1974 in Italy. He started to work as a photo-reporter in 1998. He has covered news, conflicts and social issues. Since 2001 Monteleone has been a member of the Italian Agency for Photojournalism, Contrasto.

The move to Moscow in 2002 was decisive for his photographic career and photographic style, and he has portrayed his new homeland many times.

In 2005 he started collaborating with the Accademia de Francia in Rome.

His first book, Dusha, Russian Soul, was published in 2007.

Davide Monteleone’s reportages have been widely published  and he has won the World Press Photo Award twice: in 2007 in the category Spot News and the first prize for General News in 2009 for his coverage of the war in Lebanon and in Abkhazia.

The images presented here are from the project Russian Caucassus, depicting the daily life, with its miseries and joys, in the poor regions of the Caucasus torn by internal strife.

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All images from the series Russian Caucasus ΠDavide Monteleone, courtesy Contrasto.