Laurent Piolanti
| Born in Paris in 1966, Laurent Piolanti becomes
a qualified engineer in 1992. Curious of other places and people,
his travels take up most of his time (London, Budapest, Dublin,
Belfast, ...) and he gradually finds himself in the world of Photography. In 1996, his meeting Yan Morvan leads him to work on society issues and conflicts around the world. And then, closely following news in the Balkans where he decided to live from 1997 to 2001 (Tirana, Pristina, Mitrovica, Belgrade). He takes part in exhibitions on "photographie.com" some of his virtual reports : "Anarchie Albanie", "The train of hope", "Hello Europe were are you ?". His photographic work is distributed by press agency Corbis-Sygma and Sipa-Press. After the end of the hostilities in Kosovo, Laurent Piolanti wins an award at the Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique (1999), his work focussed on the communities of the Balkans, in search of an identity thru nationalism and revenge feelings. His photographic work with the refugies of Kosovo: "Transhumances" was presented in collaboration with Kodak, at the Perpignan Photo-journalism event, "Visa pour l'image" in 2000. Since then he has closely following news in Palestine (West Bank) and Israel (2002). Coverage of the siege of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem and Israeli "Rampart" operation in Hebron, Jenine, Ramallah, Naplouse, Tulkarem, ... Laurent Piolanti is the founder (December 2002) of Humanitarian Techno Pole (www.humtec.org), ground NGO involved in Africa in the field of educational development through the use of ICT and Internet. His work took him to settle in Casamance where it always work as a photographer. |
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