Michele Palazzi was born in Rome in 1984. After getting a three-year Master’s degree in photography at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia, he started working as a documentary photographer. In 2009, he received the Enzo Baldoni prize for project ‘3:32AM’ about the earthquake in Abruzzo. Between 2010 and 2011, he worked on the project ‘Migrant workers journey’, which earned him of the Center Project Launch Award 2011 in Santa Fe, exhibited in New Mexico Museum of Art and screened at the Visa Pour l’Image 2012. In 2013, he received the First Prize of Environmental Photographer of the Year Award. Between 2012 and 2013 he started working on a long term project about the modernization impact in Asian developing countries. He lives in Rome and he’s represented by Contrasto agency.
