Migrants on an onion truck traveling from Nigeria to Niger. They will reach Agadez in about three days and from there they will journey through the Sahara desert to reach Libya or Tunisia.

Alfredo Bini

info@alfredobini.com +39 335 373167 Italy

Topics of Focus

rights of migrants, land use issues, water rights, issues of refugees, proliferation of western norms and culture

Geographic Areas of Focus

Sahel, East Africa, Mediterranean Basin, China, Indochina, United States, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Sudan, Uganda.

Biography

Alfredo Bini is a free-lance photojournalist. His work, which is published by the major international media, is often used as debating material during conferences, television programmes and festivals, and exhibited and projected in museums, galleries and universities. He works on editorial, corporate and advertising assignments.

His work is represented by the French agency Cosmos.

His main reportages:

“Transmigrations”: published and diffused by the main international media, and included in the academic publications: African and Black Diaspora, by Taylor & Francis, for De Paul University Chicago and New Geographies Journal, by Harvard University; 

“Libyan Uprising”: a reportage about the first month of the Libyan Revolution, it includes the first images of the siege of Misrata to be published by the international press.

“Land Grabbing or Land to Investors?” was projected at the 24th Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan, exhibited at the 12th China Pingyao International Photography Festival and at the 4th Brooklyn Photoville Festival.

Bini has exhibited in museums and galleries such as the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, the Espace Dupon in Paris, and the Edward Hopper Museum in NY. He regularly collaborates with NGOs and UN agencies like Caritas, Oxfam, FAO, UNICEF.