Association - School of Photography
For over thirty years the Association has organized courses and master courses at various levels, seminars and workshops for the training of amateur and professional photographers, enthusiasts and future photo reporters.
The lessons, seminars and workshops are held by well known photo reporters, university teachers specialized in the field of visual communication, experts in development technology, postproduction and printing, journalists, special guests, and representatives from the cultural world.
Alongside its teaching activities, Graffiti offers photographic and reportage excursions, in Italy and abroad, offering the participants the opportunity to unite their passion for photography to a passion for travel.
In 2011 its first scholarship was set up. Named after the great photo reporter Rolando Fava, and dedicated to social reportage, it is run on innovative lines, with a single judge. Paolo Pellegrin, photo reporter of the Magnum Agency, and Maestro Gianni Berengo Gardin, have both been involved in this.
Numerous exhibitions have been set up in Italy and abroad: in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Havana, Paris, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Lima, and Sao Paulo – all in collaboration with the respective Italian Cultural Institutes.
For many years Graffiti has collaborated with the prestigious National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography "Luigi Pigorini" in Rome, where it has mounted the following exhibitions, among others: “Lavoro e immigrazione in positivo”, “INDIA – Impatti visivi”, “Uno sguardo sulle strade dell’Asia”, “Jazz – Black Music”, “Kumbh Mela – Il viaggio dell’Anima”, “Perù – tan lejos, tan cerca”, “Unusual Visions”, “IMAGO”, “Rome - Between Lights and Shadows”, "COVID19". All the photographs included in these exhibitions have been purchased by the photographic fund of the Museum.
The collaboration it has enjoyed with La Feltrinelli in Rome and Naples, where all its books have been presented and a number of exhibitions mounted, has been very precious.
GRAFFITI PRESS Agency
Known for its distinctive social tone, Graffiti Press has documented, over the thirty-five years of its activity, the changing society of the First and Second Republics. From social questions, to politics, culture, sport, and entertainment, there is no sector to which the photographers of Graffiti have not dedicated their work. Graffiti Press has paid particular attention in these years to the situation and conflicts in the Middle East.
Over the years its photographic archive has become very rich. In 2002, the Agency won the World Press Photo Prize. It collaborates with the most important Italian newspapers, and with some daily and weekly foreign publications.
Publishing House GRAFFITI
In 2004 Graffiti took on the new, additional role of publishing house, producing high quality books on photography. Thirty books have been published so far, many of which have won important national and international prizes, among them the C2A Creative Communication Award 2023, 2019, the BIFA 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019 (Budapest International Foto Awards), the PX3 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017 and 2013 (Prix de la Photographie Paris), the MIFA 2021, 2018, 2017 and 2016 (Moscow International Foto Awards) the TIFA 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2016 (Tokyo International Foto Awards), the IPA 2023, 2022, 2021, 2016 and 2013 (International Photo Awards) the IDA 2017 (International Design Awards) and the Orvieto Photography Prize 2006. Graffiti Press won the prestigious World Press Photo in 2002.
Events at Rome Art Week
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