Agbogbloshie

• Prize
• Photographer
  Bruno Tamiozzo, Italy
• Website
  http://www.brunotamiozzo.com

Agbogbloshie dumpsite in Ghana's capital, Accra, is one of the main hubs for electronic
waste (e-waste) disposal in West Africa, particularly from old computers and computer
monitors. Since the late 1990s, countries around the globe have been sending millions of
tons of e-waste to be processed each year on the site, which is home to more than 40,000
people. Men, women, and a significant amount of children, with no protection, attempt to
recover power supply housings, circuit boards, wires and small capacitors by crudely
breaking, smashing or burning discarded circuit boards, cathode ray tubes, and other
discarded electronics. In 2011, the BBC reported that over seven million containers of
e-waste are exported each year from the United Kingdom, alone.

• Biography
  Bruno Tamiozzo was born in Roma the 27th of July 1976. He experienced a troubled childhood, which led him to pursue a career in Art, also to find answers hidden in his heart and his soul. When he finished mid-school, he started to get interested in photography, and continued his studies at an art institute, where he graduated from in 1994. Later in the year, he entered the Art Academy (Accademia di Belle Arti) in Roma, where he developed his photography and direction studies. He graduated from the Art Academy with highest marks, presenting a thesis about the "Developing of the image and grafic through the use of the most modern softwares and electronic features". During 2003 and 2004 he attented a reportage and journalism master, where he crafted his technique and got in touch with some of the best photographers from all over the world, involved in some major agencies and publications like MAGNUM, GRAZIA NERI, CONTRASTO