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Andrea Ruggeri was born in 1980 in Rome, where he studied philosophy. In 2002 he began to photograph and since has collaborated with magazines and video productions as a freelance photographer. He dedicated his work to social themes. Between 2005 and 2009 he travelled through South America, where he taught photography in an indigenous reserve in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, as part of a project with the University of São Paulo. During this time he completed his work about Guarani indigenous people of Southern Brazil, miners in Potosi, Bolivia, and a project about Argentineans. His pictures have appeared in Scampia, at “Periferie del Mondo” festival, at the 2007 “Festival Internazionale di Roma” of photography, at "Bibli" and "The House of Love and dissent" galleries of Rome. From 2005 he started a collaboration with photo-artist Serafino Amato. email: ventisette@gmail.com |
