Gabriele Micalizzi is an Italian photojournalist.
He collaborates with national and international
newspapers such as: New York Times, The
Guardian, Internazionale, Wall Street Journal.
He is one of the founders of the Italian collective
Cesura.
His work focuses on the study of the social
condition of people and the relationship they
have with the territory in which they live.
In 2010, he started the project Italians: The Myth,
an ethnographic and anthropological
investigation into the identity crisis of Italian
society. This project is still ongoing.
In 2011, he started reporting on all the events
related to the 'Arab Spring'.
During 2016 he dealt mainly with the Libyan
situation, with the subsequent aim of creating a
photographic book, DOGMA: exhibited at the
Leica Gallery in Milan; this project aims to
highlight the untold truths, and the false myth of a
pacified Libya.
Since 2016 he has been a testimonial for Leica
and he is the first winner of the European
photography talent, Master of Photography.
In February 2019 in Syria he covered the final
offensive against the last bastion of ISIS until, on
11 February 2019, while in south-east Syria to
document the Kurdish advance against ISIS, he
was hit by an RPG rocket in Baghuz.
In early 2020, he returns to Libya to cover the
arrival of Turkish troops sent to help President Al
Sarraj resist General Haftar's attack.
During the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy, he
followed the area with the highest number of
cases, covering Bergamo and the rest of
Lombardy, following the work of Dr Cavanna in
the Piacenza valleys who treated covid patients
at their homes.
Images have been published in magazines such
as Time Magazine, le Monde, VICE USA and
Internazionale.
In 2021 he followed the historic trip of Pope
Francis to Iraq and the controversial withdrawal
of US troops from Afghanistan during the Taliban
offensive.
In 2022 he documented the war in Ukraine for
WSJ, Die Zeit and Le Monde. His reports from
Mariupol on the destruction of the theatre and the
Azovstal steelworks basement were broadcast by
Piazza Pulita on La 7. For his work in the
Donbass he won, together with his colleague
Luca Steimann, the 62nd Premiolino.