Stefano Pesarelli
Photography: Reportage and Wildlife
Favorite Camera and Lens: CANON EOS 5D Mark II and CANON 16-35 f2.8 L
Favorite Tripod set: Manfrotto 190XPROB and 488 CR2
Activity: Photography for magazines, International NGOs, travel photography in Africa, travel writer
City – Country: Lilongwe, MALAWI
Awards:
2010 EYE’EM Iphoneography Competition – Finalist
2010 CANON Professional Network - 3°
2010 Iphoneography International Contest – Finalist
2011 FIOF International Awards – Silver (Reportage-Portrait)
2011 FIOF International Award – Bronze (Reportage-Portrait-Stories)
Publications:
TANZANIA, dal Kilimamjaro a Zanzibar, dove l’Africa incontra l’Oriente, Ed. Polaris, Italy 2010
EYE’EM book, Berlin 2010
MOZAMBICO, un nuovo antico paese. Ed. Polaris, Italy 2010
iPhoneography Book, Italy 2011
Witness Journal, Italy 2010-2011
Africa, Missione e Cultura, Italy 2011
Nigrizia, Italy 2010-2011
Potpourrì, 2010-2011
LaStampa.it, 2010
Repubblica.it, 2011
Website:
Canon 5d Mark II
Canon 7d
Canon 30d
Canon 30d infrared
Canon 300 f4
Canon 100-400 f4-5.6
Canon 70-200 f2.8
Canon 70-200 f4
Canon 300 f4
Canon 100-400 f4-5.6
Canon 16-35 f2.8
Canon 10-22 f3.5
Canon 50 macro
Canon 24-105 f4
Canonet QL17 telemetro
iPhone 3g, 3gs, 4g
iPhone fish eye lens Pixeet for 3g and 3gs
Lubitel2 6×6
Holga 6×6
Lomo fisheye
Polaroid sx70
Polaroid Colorpack
Polaroid Image
Polaroid 600
Fujifilm Instax210
Manfrotto 190xprob
Manfrotto 488rc2
Biography
Stefano Pesarelli travels around the world since 1994, from Asia to South America and Africa. He lives between Malawi and Italy, but he is often on the road between Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya on safari with his safari company Africawildtruck, specialized in Adventure and Photo Travel Workshop. He is the author of numerous travel guides for Polaris publisher as Tanzania, Mozambique and upcoming Malawi and Zambia. In 2004 he crossed Africa from Turin to Mozambique driving a 4×4 Fiat Campagnola for 23.000 Km.
Recent photo exhibitions include “Storie di tè (Lilongwe, Malawi 2009) and “Africa through iPhone” (Barletta, Italy 2011).
He joined the Fondo Internazionale Orvieto Fotografia and some shots have been published on magazines such as Witness Journal, Nigrizia and Potpourri and on International websites such as Canon-Europe. He works for various International NGOs and he is part of Shoot4Change.
In 2011 obtained the prestigious qualification QIP “Qualified Italian Photographers”.
Actually he works at the project “Africa through iPhone”, a wide photographic project tending to combine the reality and the stories of a continent with this new photographic language in order to create tangible and communicative images.
