A light of hope

• Photographer
  Riccardo Ghilardi, Italy
• Studio
  Contour by Getty Images
• Website
  http://www.riccardoghilardi.com/
• Instagram
  riccardoghilardiphoto

In Mozambique every year a woman of 41 is at risk of death during
the period of maternity. In the Casa De Mae Espera in Health
Centre Guijia built by Save the Children and near to children's
hospital for maltreated children, mothers are hosted in the last
months of pregnancy until the birth.

I was born in Rome in 1971. In 2007, I showed a reportage on the life of a Fire Brigade team, in which I had served for many years. In 2008, my artistic focus shifted towards the cinema. In 2011, I joined the team of portraitists of the international Contour by Getty Images agency based in New York and I have been published by the top Italian and international magazines. In 2018, during International Rome Film Festival, I showed my new project Three Minutes that celebrates my art of portraiting celebrities in very few minutes.