Max Hirzel
Haytham Pictures
Biella, BI, Italia
Graduated in photography at the European Institute of Design in Milan in 1990. After three years as advertising photographer, I leave temporarily professional photography, working at the beginning in the tourism and then in the social sphere; i work in North Africa, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and Latin America. In 2009 i do the video documentary "If you do not know me let me talk" about refugees in Italy. Since the end of 2010 I return to professional photography as a free lance; in 2011 I realize reportages in Mali and Senegal, then in Tunisia for the elections of October. I collaborated with Sportweek magazine and photo agency Emblema of Milan. In 2012 I realize the video documentary "In the Center" on the Italian management of reception of Libyan war refugees, winning the photography award in So.Docu. (Social Documentary) Film festival. Since 2013 i'm collaborating with Haytham photo agency (www.haythampictures.com); in 2013/14 i realize works in Palestine, India, Brazil, Italy. Actually i'm working on a long terme project about migration in Italy, on a story about a woman suffering from breast cancer and on Expo Milan 2015.
- Audio capture
- Audio editing
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Interview
- Medical
- RISC training
- Sports
- Video capture
- Video editing
- English
- Spanish
- French
- Italian
- Portuguese