Bio

Michele Palazzi was born in Rome in 1984. After gaining a three years master

in Photography at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia, he started working

as a professional photographer focusing on ethnic minorities,

from the Dalit catholic indian community to the Roma people living in Italy.

He also developed a long term project on the aftermath of the earthquake

in Abruzzo. In 2009 he was awarded  with the Enzo Baldoni Prize.

He lives in Rome and he is syndicated by Prospekt.

Statement

I have been living in Lazio district since I was born: the more I try to analyze the present, comparing it with the not too far past, the more I find difficult to imagine a bright future for my district.

The changes that happened in this last period very often took the opposite direction to an idea of civil progress and of acceptation of the differences among people. On the contrary, it seems that there is a general and fomented sense of fear of  this diversity. This brings also to ineffective answers to the problem.

Nonetheless, I always try to find and approach some bright stories, that could show the braveness and the difficulties that people find trying to go toward an opposite direction. In this way it is possible to hope that, sooner or later, we could begin to put some positive activities that could give some more hopes to became a really civilized district, willing to have a positive approach toward the weakest part of the population.