Manuel Marano is an Italian documentary photographer and filmmaker. He uses photography to explore the human condition across a variety of social and cultural contexts.
He starts his career in commercial Photography in 2001. In late 2010 he becomes committed to documentary visual story telling and filmmaking. He is the co-producer and co-director of "A Life In Chains", a video documentary on human traffic and prostitution in Bangladesh which is based on his personal investigative report.
He is currently based in Hamburg, Germany.