About Michela Chimenti

Born in 1981 in Northern italy, from a family of the South, since I was a child I’ve been aware of the importance that journalism had to me. I wish to tell stories, to tell people.
I studied Diplomacy for Middle East with a thesis on Turkey and EU from LGBT rights point of view, and in 2009 thanks to a postgraduate fellowship, I moved to Palestine for a few months.
Refugee camps, check points, the dawn on Al Aqsa Mosque, in two words, the Holy Land, made me realise that I needed to preserve places and faces… and that I needed a new camera too.
In 2011 I started working in a communication agency in Milan and in 2012 I became the Head of video production, but photography is still the only thing that makes me feel in peace with myself. Still don’t know what my way is.
For the moment photography is the best path.