ITALIAN LANDSCAPE: the spruce wood around Camaldoli’s hermitage immersed in the fog, in Arezzo (Italy), on November 1, 2021. SHORT BIO Elisabetta Zavoli is an Italian freelance documentary photographer since 2009. She has lived and worked abroad for 10 years, of which she spent 6 years in Indonesia where she has investigated gender issues and environmental issues. In 2016, she has been awarded “Journalism Grant for Innovation in Development Reporting”, by European Journalism Centre for the project “A fistful of shrimps” together with science journalist Jacopo Pasotti. In 2019, her picture “The landfill midwife” has won the overall Earth Photo Award 2019 by Royal Geographical Society of London. In 2021, she ha won 78th Pictures of the Year International (POYi) and Happiness ONTHEMOVE Award. She is recipient of National Geographic Society Emergency Journalism Fund to investigate the emotional and economic aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic on freelance performing artists and workers of the Italian theatre scene. In 2020, together with fellow Italian science journalists, she has founded Radar Magazine and online media outlet about environment, geography, nature and cultures. Her works have been published on major International media outlets among which The New York Times, The New Yorker, BBC, The Guardian, National Geographic. She is a regular contributor at Getty Images for editorial content. She is a member of Overseas Press Club of America, international photo collective Women Photograph and Instagram group @everydayclimatechange. She is member of Her Wild Vision Initiative, the international database of women and women-identifying photographers and filmmakers working on conservation and the environment. So far, her pictures have been exhibited in 42 exhibitions, both solo and collective, in 11 countries over 3 continents. www.elisabettazavoli.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/elizavola/
Two farmers smoke in front of their fishing hut, under a full moon night in Sawah Luhur village. Fishermen have to look after their traps all night long in order to avoid the theft of shrimps by other villagers. Banten, Java, Indonesia, 2016.
Attilio, capovalle, di valle San Leonardo, verifica la presenza e l'accrescimento dei gamberetti, di notte, quando sono più attivi. Italia, 2016