Gabriele Micalizzi is an Italian photojournalist. He collaborates with national and international newspapers such as: New York Times, The Guardian, Internazionale, Wall Street Journal.
He is founder of the Cesura collective. His works focus on the analysis and representation of the social condition of people and the relationship they have with the context in which they live.
In 2010, he began the project Italians: The Myth, an ethno-anthropological investigation focused on the identity crisis experienced by Italian society.
In 2011 he began documenting the events related to the "Arab Springs."
In 2016 he was crowned by Oliviero Toscani and David LaChapelle as the first winner of the Master of photography award curated by Sky Arte, becoming a testimonial for Leica. During 2016 he travels to Libya to document the civil war, a trip following
of which his book DOGMA will be released.
On February 11, 2019, while in southeastern Syria to document the Kurdish advance against ISIS, he is hit by an RPG rocket in Baghuz. As a result of his injuries, he spends time in Milan where he seeks new stories to tell. Thus was born the MalaMilano project, focusing on crime in the city.
During the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy, he documents the area with the highest number of
cases, traveling between Bergamo and the rest of Lombardy.
In 2021, he travels between Iraq and Afghanistan and at the same time begins his career in the film world working as a set photographer and consultant for the Sky TV series Block 181 shot in Milan.
In 2022 he documented the war in Ukraine for WSJ, Die Zeit and Le Monde, from which came the film: That'Z War, scheduled for release in 2023.
