Raffaele Monepaone was born on May 5, 1980 in Vibo Valentia. Since he was a little boy, he has been fascinated by the world of photography. When he was 12, he started to attend classes at a family photo studio, where he mostly got involved into technical and theoretical aspects. When he first took a 35 mm camera in his hands, his talent started to show at its fullest and he embarked on his path of professional growth and research. He eventually turned to the genre of reportage and anthropological photography, humanitarian research becoming his specialism. His first project, on which he still continues to work, is a real hymn to life. Life is the project, in which he tells us his story through his characters’ eyes, faces, hands touched by time, in which he shows us old Calabria and its beauty full of dignity.
