Gian Marco Benedetto

Gian Marco Benedetto was born in 1986 in Sarzana, Italy. He currently lives in Barcelona. He self-taught since he was 13 years old, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Bocconi University of Milan, after studying photography at the Forma institute (Milan) after specializing in new journalism (Lacoonte) he studied photojournalism and documentary photography (IEFC, Barcelona). Since 2017 he has been affiliated as an International Journalist. Benedetto feels the urgency to tell stories focused on people who perceive themselves as powerless losers in the modern world and uses different audiovisual media to share his questions about identity and human rights. He spent the last years covering events in Ukraine, Moldovia, Poland, Turkey, Mexico and European borders.

His work has been published on Time, The Times, Al Jazeera, CNN, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, De Morgen, 5w, Abc news, L’Espresso, El Pais, La Vanguardia, el Faro de Vigo, Expansión, Ara, El Periodico, La Razon among others. Benedetto’s images have been awarded and exhibited, in solo and group exhibitions, in galleries worldwide. In 2023 he exhibited in Camera dei Deputati (Rome), European Parlment (Bruxels). In 2022 he has been nominated to Unicef poy, exposed Art photo Bcn, in 2021 he participate in Festival de cine y derechos humanos (Spain), International short Film Festival Kalmthout (Belgium), Afrika Film For Impact (Nigeria), Barciff, Anatolia film festival (Turkey), Archivo Covid, Catalunya miradas solidaries, Terra Gollut (Spain). In 2020 participate in Biennal Internacional de Fotografia (Olot, Spain) and was selected to the final stage of the Siena International Photo Awards competition (Italy), curatorial selection winner px3 2020 (France), selected SOTW 2020, in 2018 he participate in Lumix n 6 (Hannover), 2019/2018 Strip art (Barcelona), among others.