Raffaele Petralla

Country: Italy 🇮🇹

Raffaele Petralla is a documentary photographer, photography professor and videomaker.
He graduated from the Scuola Romana di Fotografia in 2007, in Rome.
After working for several years also on movie sets as lighting assistant, focus puller and camera operator, he decides to devote himself entirely to reportage photography and documentary video, with particular attention to social, anthropological and environmental issues.
Focusing in his research mainly on long term projects, Raffaele has worked in China, Russia, South East Asia and Africa.
His works have been published in over 60 international media including: New York Times, National Geographic, GEO, The Times, The Washington Post, F Days Japan, The New Yorker, Internazionale, De Morgen, L’Espresso and De Volkskrant.
In recent years Petralla has received international awards and nominees.
Since 2015 he has been a member of the Prospekt Photographers agency.
He is teacher in reportage photography at the Spazio Tempo School in Bari.
In 2021 he published the photobook “Mari El, a pagan beauty” produced by Voglino editrice.