BIO
After graduating in Sociology, Luca begins to collaborate with some NGOs as a social worker in marginal contexts. For the whole of 2003 he lived in Bolivia coordinating a shelter for street children and in that same year he developed a first photo reportage exhibited later in few Italian cultural centers. From 2004 to 2010 he carried on at the same time the activity of social researcher within Codici, an independent agency of Milan, and the activity of photographer. Since 2010 he decides to devote himself exclusively to photography while continuing to collaborate with third sector associations. In 2012 he was in Senegal to document the daylife of some young wrestlers, a awarded project exhibited in the Voies off de le Rencontres de Arles. From the end of 2014 Luca moved to Brazil from where he collaborates as a photojournalist with some international magazines. Since 2016 he’s represented by the Luz photo agency and since 2018 he joins the storyteller community Everyday Project. His interest in the more marginal submonds has led him to develop in recent years a daily documentation of the Sao Paulo’ Crackland. This work got in 2021 the Colonna prize at the Sifest, the first prize at the Urban Photo Award in Trieste and the Prêmio Militão Augusto de Azevedo of the Museo da Cidade of São Paulo. In March 2021 was published his first photographic book "Selva di Pedra", which collects years of exploration in the most extreme contexts of the city of São Paulo.
CONTACTS
lucameola@hotmail.com 0055 11 914182845 (Brasil) 0039 349 2509625 (Italy)
AWARDS
2023 Cracolândia, 1st place, Prêmio Militão Augusto de Azevedo
2023 Cracolândia, finalist, Premio Ponchielli
2022 Cracolândia, finalist, Gomma Grant
2022 Cracolândia, finalist, Romano Cagnoni Award
2021 Cracolândia, 1st place – Urban Photo Award – Trieste Photo day
2021 Cracolândia, 1st place - Premio Werther Colonna, SI FEST 2021
2020 Hospedaria in quarantena, shortlisted -OPEN CALL for the Nonprofit World, Festival Fotografia Etica, Lodi
2020 Peri Alto, a pandemia na periferia, 2nd place - Microbolsa de Fotojornalismo Arb com El País, Brasiil.
2019 Indigenas Urbanos, finalist - Festival International de Fotografia Paraty em Foco
2018 Cidade da Garoa - finalist - Italian Strret Photo Festival, Rome
2107 Cidade da Garoa - winner - Life Framer Contest
2017 Before the Runway - 1st place - Pdn the Look
2016 Cidade da Garoa - portfolio selected - Urban Photo Award
2015 Cidade da Garoa: - finalist - Lensculture Street Photography Award
2015 l'Arène de Dakar: - 3rd place -IPA- Traditions and Cultures
2015 l'Arène de Dakar: - Honorable Mention - MIFA - Editorial - Sport
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Cracolândia: Festival del Reportage, Ascoli Piceno
2022 Cracolândia: Sifest, Savignano sul Rubicone
2021 Cracolândia: Portfolio Italia, Centro fotografia d’autore, Bibbiena
2021 Cracolândia: Trieste Photo Days
2020 Bisceglie Hub: Carcere Minorile Cesare Beccaria, Milano
2019 Indigenas Urbanos: Festival International de Fotografia PARATY EM FOCO, Brasil.
2017: Brazilian Beach's Notes: aMORE festival moru, Parenzo,Croazia.
2016: Cidade da Garoa: Festival International de Fotografia PARATY EM FOCO, Brasil.
2016 Cidade da Garoa: Trieste Photo Days.
2016 Cidade da Garoa: Zavičajni muzej Poreštine, Parenzo,Croazia.
2016: l'Arène de Dakar : Voies off de le Rencontres de Arles, France.
2015 Figli di Steinert : International Myotonic Dystrophy Consortium Meeting (IDMC) - Paris.
2014 Appunti dall'Isola : ZonaK - Milano.
2013 Khadilaye, una vita a Camberene : Villa Sartirana - Giussano ; Villa Mariani – Casatenovo ; Sala Teodolinda – Missaglia ; Centro Culturale San Clemente – Besana in Brianza.
2011 Perchè non mi guardi? : Corso Garibaldi, Milano.
2008 Incroci di strada : palazzina Liberty, Milano
2004 -2007 Hijos de la calle : Centro Sociale Baraonda, l’associazione Unza, associazione Variazioni, associazione la Scheggia, centro sociale Barrio’s - Milano; casa Pomposa - Rimini; Squinterno Festival - Berceto.