Erberto Zani
Parma, PR, Italia
Photographer and journalist freelance based in Italy.
I started working, in 2004, for the newspaper "Gazzetta di Parma".
Freelance since 2008, my works of social documentary photographer include reportage from many difficult areas of the world: illegal gold mining in Colombia, war for minerals in North Kivu (D.R.Congo), earthquake's effect in Haiti, landmines in Cambodia, water crises in Burkina Faso, Somali refugee in Nepal, daily life inside the favelas of Medellin, miners of coal in Jharkhand and Hindu festival of Maha Kumbh Mela in India, Syrian refugee in Lebanon.
Available for assignment, I cooperate with several international no profit organizations especially for editorial projects.
Some books published: "Maha Kumbh Mela" (2014), "Tsiry" (2014), "Babanagar-Colombia" (2013), "Sahel" (2012), "Hope" (2011), "Haiti, fragments" (2010), "Drops of life" (2010).
Actually I'm working also on a personal long project about illegal mining in different countries of the world.
War for minerals (D.R.Congo)
Erberto Zani
Miner at work inside a hole in Mudere mine: extraction of minerals is all made by hand with just pickaxes and shovels. (Rubaya, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa)
War for minerals (D.R.Congo)
Erberto Zani
Small break during the digging of a new tunnel.
Arrived at 20 meters deep, the tunnel will be shore up with simply wooden planks: collapses happens frequently, especially during rainy season. (Mudere mine, Rubaya, North Kivu, D.R.Congo, Africa)