A Painful Necessity

• Prize
  Gold in People/Portrait, 1st Place winner in People
• Photographer
  Gabriele Micalizzi
• Agency / Studio
  Cesura
• Website
  https://www.gabrielemicalizzi.com/

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy, more than 170 doctors have died from the virus. According to Professor of Sociology of Health Ivan Cavicchi, general practitioners and other primary care providers have been “abandoned” and “left without protections”. With time, the conditions of doctors and care providers and the attention to their personal protective equipment improved, lowering the risks to their health. A really important tool for everyone's safety is swab testing, although it's a procedure that can feel intrusive and be quite painful.

• 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"