Country Doctor

• Photographer
  Gabriele Micalizzi
• Agency / Studio
  Cesura
• Photo Date
  March/April/May 2020
• Website
  https://www.gabrielemicalizzi.com/

Once the Covid-19 pandemic started spreading in Italy, Luigi Cavanna, the head of the Oncology ward in Piacenza Hospital, decided that the best way to approach the disease was to treat it early, in the same way you would treat cancer. Equipped with a device that monitors the level of oxygen in the blood and a portable ultrasound chest scanner, doctor Cavanna started visiting patients at their home - treating them mostly with hydroxychloroquine. In this way, he saved more than 365 patients. Only a small percentage saw their condition worsen to the point where they needed to be hospitalized.

• Biography
  Gabriele Micalizzi is an Italian photojournalist, he collaborates with national and international newspapers. He is one of the founders of the Italian collective Cesura, with the photographer Alex Majoli. In 2011 he began to reporting all the events related to the "Arab Spring". In 2019, during the Kurdish offensive in the Baghuz area against the last bastion of Isis, he was wounded by an RPG rocket. In Libya he cover the arrival of Turkish troops sent to help President Al Sarraj resist General Haftar's attack. In 2020 it followed the pandemic in the most affected areas of Italy.
• Awards
  2019 - REGIONE LOMBARDIA ROSA CAMUNA AWARD - CUTULI AWARD 2017 - TESTIMONIAL LEICA - “DOGMA” Personal exhibition at LEICA GALERIE, Milan - INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION & FILM AWARDS 2017 NEW YORK - PDN PHOTO ANNUAL AWARDS 2017 - FINALIST OF THE SIPA CONTEST 2016 - TESTIMONIAL LEICA - SKY ARTE - MASTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY Winner - PREMIO PONCHIELLI - SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD Finalist in reportage category Exposition in Somerset House (London) - ANDREI STENIN INTERNATIONAL PRESS PHOTO CONTEST Honorable mention of the jury 2015 - MIFA MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARD 1° prize “People/Lifestyle” category 2° prize “Professional” category - KOLGA PHOTO FESTIVAL exhibition and finalist - KAUNAS PHOTO FESTIVAL Artist in residence and personal exhibition at Meno Parkas Gallery 2014 - COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION: "Sguardi Altrove" "Athena" at Padiglione Grecia, Triennale di Milano. Italy. 2011 - THE ARAB SPRING Outside in Bayeux Group exhibition, France bleu Basse-Normandie - IPA 2011 International Photography Award Honorable mention with project "Pane e Pomodoro" - EPF 2011 (Emerging photographer Fund) Burn magazine Honorable mention with project "Pane e Pomodoro"