alfrdo_falvoBiography

Alfredo Falvo was born in 1972 in Chianciano Terme, Italy.
From 1998 to 2000 he studied at the International Center of Photography in New York where he also had the opportunity to do an internship at the Magnum agency (N.Y.) In 2000 he moved back to Italy and started working as a photojournalist. In 2003 he obtained     a scholarship for the workshop “Progetto Reporter” at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome. His photographs have been published      on several magazines, in Italy and abroad, and have been included in important photography festivals such us “Fotonoviembre” (
biennial of photography, Tenerife) and “Visa pour l’Image” (evening projection), Perpignan, France. He came out with his most important work in 2005, photographing the difficult reality of  Skid Row, L.A., which became a book,  “Lost Angels”, published             by Stockmans (Belgium). He recently won, in 2009, the first prize for “Black and white series” of the Cliciak Photo Contest and            the 1st prize at the International Photography Award with his book “Lost Angels”.

Some of the major Italian and foreign magazines on which he has published are L’Espresso, Io Donna, Repubblica, Internazionale,       D di Repubblica, Vanity Fair Italy, El Pais Semanal (Spain), L’Express (France), Vanity Fair Germany,Weliswaar and De Groene Amsterdammer (Holland).


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