Nicolò Filippo Rosso
Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
Nicolò Filippo Rosso (b.1985) is an Italian documentary photographer living between South, Central, and North America.
After graduating with a degree in Literature from the Università Degli Studi Di Torino in Italy, he moved to Latin America and lived mainly in Colombia for over ten years.
Witnessing stories of trauma, inequality, and injustices that have shattered the region for generations, he chose to tell stories of abandoned communities, mass migration crises, conflict, and climate change.
Since 2018, he has documented the migration movements across the continent for his project Exodus.
Other works include Forgotten in Dust, a project about desertification, coal exploitation, child mortality, and malnutrition among the indigenous Wayuu of La Guajira in Colombia.
In 2021, he received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award for Humanistic Photography. In 2024, he was the recipient of The Alexia.
His work has also been recognized with two Getty Editorial Grants, six Pictures of the Year International, including the World Understanding Award in 2024, four Best of Photojournalism (NPPA), a National Magazine Award (with Stranger’s Guide), an International Photography Award (Photographer of the Year, Deeper Perspective, 2020), two World Report Awards, Premio Ponchielli, Prix ANI-PixTrack, the Romano Cagnoni Award, the BarTur Photo Award, the Leica Oscar Barnack Award, and a World Press Photo.
Rosso regularly contributes to Bloomberg News, TIME, Stern, and The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
He regularly lectures about photography and journalism at universities in Colombia, Europe, and the United States.
He is fluent in Italian, English, Spanish, and French and has a basic knowledge of Arabic.
2024 - ·The Alexia: grant recipient, 2024 - POYi: AE, Issue Reporting Picture Story, 2024 - BOP: 1º Place General News, Stories, 2024 - POYi: 1º Place World Understanding Award
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2020 Photo Contest, Contemporary Issues, Stories, 3rd Prize
Exodus
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Nicolò Filippo Rosso
31 October, 2018
A young girl asks for money on a street in the Colombian capital, Bogotá. By June 2019, the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) had provided attention to nearly 80,000 Venezuelan children, adolescents and families countrywide.
