Milena was born in Baku in 1981, she then fled Baku in 1988 to go to Armenia due to ethnic violence. She went to Nagorno Karabakh from where she had to move again in 2020 to go to Yerevan to avoid conflict zone.

Ezio Gianni Murzi

eziogianni@gmail.com 00393407677943 Italy

Topics of Focus

health, ageing, international development, children health

Geographic Areas of Focus

Europe, Middle East, Africa

Biography

I am a medical doctor, turned photographer and passionate storyteller after attending a workshop and on-line classes respectively run by John Stanmeyer in Istanbul 2018, and by Salwan Georges of the Washington Post, 2022. This same year, I attended classes run by Stefano Mirabella an Italian professional photographer and teacher. In my earlier career, I have been working as a medical doctor, in Mozambique 1977–1981, where I returned 2019 and 2023, to document the fight against TB and HIV/AIDS. 1981–1985 I was in Zanzibar, Tanzania, as head of an Italian Medical Team. From there I moved to Rome to work at the Foreign Ministry, 1985–1988, as technical advisor. In 1988, I joined UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and for following 20 years I was posted in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South, West and North Africa, India and the USA. Now, I am based in Rome, and I travel where photography takes me. I like to work on stories that have social issues worth telling.

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