Fabio Bucciarelli (Italy, 1980) is an award-winning photographer who focuses his attention on conflicts and humanitarian consequences of war.
Fabio spent the last years covering the major world changing events in Africa and Middle East. He reported from Libya - from its earliest stages until the death of Gaddafi - from Syria - during the civil war - and from forgotten countries in Africa as South Sudan and Mali. Fabio feels the urgency to tell the stories of people who are rendered powerless and provide unbiased information focused on human rights.
Before becoming a photographer in 2006 Fabio received the MS in Engineering from Politecnico of Turin. After, he attended the Universidad of Valencia where he specialized in Digital Imaging. In 2007 he won "Master dei Talenti" an Engineering grants program which offered him to work in a company in Barcelona. From 2009 he devoted himself entirely to photography and started working as staff member for La Presse/Ap. A couple of years later, he leaved the agency to dedicate his attention fully to documentary photography working beside in 2010/2011 as staff photographer for the Italian agency LuzPhoto.
Nowadays Fabio collaborates as a freelancer with Agence France-Presse and works on assignment worldwide for magazines and newspapers and NGO's and International agencies such as UNHCR and ICRC.
In 2013, his project Battle To Death - focusing on Syria's civil war - won the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal awarded by the Overseas Press Club of America. Fabio has also been prized by World Press Photo, Prix Bayeux-Calvados, Pictures of The Year International, Best of Photojournalism, Leica Oskar Barnack, Sony International Photography Award and FotoEvidence Book Award.
His work has been published, among others, by TIME Magazine, The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera America, AL Jazeera English, The Guardian and Observer, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Paris Match, Le Monde, El Pais, Stern, Die Zeit, Internazionale, La Stampa, L'Espresso, Il Fatto Quotidiano, La Repubblica and Il Corriere della Sera.
In recent years Fabio's dispatches from the field have been published by Il Fatto Quotidiano, La Stampa, Time Magazine and Al Jazeera America. Fabio images appear in several books, between them "The Gold Medals" and "10 Fotografi, 10 Storie 10 Anni" edited by Contrasto. Beside this, he wrote with Stefano Citati the book "The Smell of the War".
In 2015, with other committed photographers and a group developers, Fabio founded MeMo Mag, a platform that uses the strength of digital technology to develop new ways of storytelling.