The Walking People

• Prize
  Bronze in People/Life Style
• Photographer
  Raffaele Tuzio
• Photo Date
  2019
• Website
  http://www.raffaeletuzio.com

“I want the world to know that my country, Ethiopia, has always won with determination and heroism” Abebe Bikila after his Rome Olympic marathon victory …both in the slums or in the “Merkato” of Addis Ababa in search of small businesses, or on the rural roads of the Amhara region in search of water, or in the biblical scenarios of pilgrimages to Lalibela in search of God, the Ethiopian people are forced to walk in order to live. This project aims to describe this wandering destiny, the daily efforts and the spirit that animates this population, taken in the streets of the country

• Biography
  Raffaele Tuzio is a photographer based in Rome. He started his activity as documentary and street photographer. In 1990 he went to Rome where began his relationship with travel photography. During this period he travelled all over the world, especially in India and China, producing images for tour operator, and working as freelance for national magazines, also as editorialist. In 2009 he decided to come back to documentary photography and he planned a long time work about the effects of globalization on the pre-industrial social and cultural life.
• Awards
  PX3 June 2016 First Prize Major Category "Press" for the winning entries The Tenth Day MIFA June 2016 Silver winner General News category (non/professional) for the winning entry Days of Ashura Px3 July 2014 Silver winner Book Proposal/Documentary category (non/professional) for the winning entry Fishing Stories Px3 July 2014 Silver winner Book Proposal/People category (non/professional) for the winning entry Neendakara 2013 PX3 July 2014 Bronze winner Press/Travel/Tourism category (non/professional) for the winning entry Gobi desert PX3 July 2014 Bronze winner Press/Feasture Story category (non/professional) for the winning entry Fishing Stories IPA september 2013 Second Place winner Book-People category (non/professional) for the winning entry Smiles from Bhutan PX3 june 2011 Gold winner in Press - General News category (non/professional) for the winning entry "If not now, when" PX3 june 2011 Silver winner in Portraiture - Other category (non/professional) for the winning entry "Portraits from Kenya" PX3 june 2011 Bronze winner in Nature - Wildlife category (non/professional) for the winning entry "Domestic Face of Kenya lions" PX3 june 2011 Bronze winner in Book Proposal - People category (non/professional) for the winning entry "Turistas" PX3 june 2011 Bronze winner in Fine art - People category (non/professional) for the winning entry "Fly and Maasai" PX3 june 2011 Bronze winner in Press - Political category (non/professional) for the winning entry "If not now, when" IPA august 2010 1° Place in Editorial - Other category (non/professional) for the winning entry: "Neendakara" PX3 june 2010 2° Place in Photojournalism - Feature story category (non/professional) for the winning entry : "Neendakara"