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Alex bi. is a freelance photographer based in the province of Ancona
He travelled to Sarajevo, Mostar, Mejugorie and Vukovar and photographed their social realities after the civil war in the Balkans. In the late '90s he arrived in Ireland just on time to witness and capture the changing face of a country experiencing its first economic boom also known as Celtic Tiger.
He accomplished his widest reportage with a 5-month journey around the Mediterranean Sea trying to imagine what a traveller in the year 0 would see and photograph.
On the mountains of the Moroccan Rif he pictured the rural life of cannabis growers, in Genoa he joined the movement of the “Women in Black” during the G8 demonstration, in Paris he met the “Atelier du Non-Faire”, a workshop space of applied “art-therapy”, seemingly an anarchist environment within one of the biggest psychiatric asylums located in the suburbs of Paris, in Brazil he photographed a Sem Terra camp near Salvador da Bahia, in India he documented the life in Varanasi around the most sacred and yet polluted sacred river of the planet, in Rio de Janeiro he portrayed Bob Nadkarni, an English painter and ex BBC war correspondent, and the Baile Funk scene, illegal parties, supported by drug barons, that take place inside the favelas every weekend gathering thousands of Brazilian young people, in Venezuela he reached the Amazon Forest and documented the Yekuana and Yanomami indigenous tribes and in Italy he pictured the Italian province.
He exhibited in Rome, Paris, Dublin, Milan, Bologna, Ancona, Massa Lombarda, Imola, Cagli, Jesi, Macerata and Lausanne.
Since 2008 he has been co-operating with the press agency Photoshelter, New York (Usa).
Since 2008 co-creator and co-organizer of Artè Foto - Festival of Photojournalism (Italy).
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