Honorable Mention / 2021 / Press / People/Personality

Belarusian women spearhead anti-Lukashenko protest in France

  • Photographer
    Alberto Campi, Switzerland
  • Studio
    We Report

"I thought I was the only Belarusian in France. "The Belarusian diaspora in France, which numbers around 4,500 people, became aware of its existence with the repression of demonstrations in Belarus, demanding the holding of democratic, transparent and regular elections. Particularly Belarusian women, at the forefront of the anti-Lukashenko protest.

Alberto Campi, photojournalist. Partisan of the slow journalism, freelance photographer from 2007. He is Italian by birth but migrant for vocation. He lived and worked in Tampere (Finland) and Amsterdam (Netherlands), he is based between Geneva (Switzerland) and Grenoble (France), he is always ready to leave for a report, especially for the Balkan region that he knows very well. He is member of the collective of independent journalists We Report. He published on: Libération, Les Jours, La Cité, Mediapart, Mediacites,...

Awards Premio Giornalistico Carla Agustoni 2020
Festival of Ethical Photography 2017 1st "Sigle shot"
SwissPhotoAward 2012 1st prize for reportage category
SwissPhotoAward 2012 Prize du public
IPA "International Photo Award" 2009 2 Honor mentions