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Gabriele Orlini

Documentary Photoreporter

I tell the stories of individuals, men and women, who together make up that decomposed puzzle called Humanity and to which we all, in some way, belong.

Born in Trieste, Milan adopted him, but he is Porteño by destiny.
Gabriele Orlini likes to return to his intimate and melancholy Buenos Aires whenever he can.
He has no roots but legs and has chosen to be in the wind job not to betray that subtle and vital need to feel elsewhere.

Photojournalist, writer, documentary photographer, film director, and traveller by an incurable need of the soul. A strong advocate of travel as an irreplaceable means of knowledge, he uses the art of visual storytelling to depict the struggles and contradictions of the world. With the photojournalist’s methodological precision and the storyteller’s vision, he devotes himself to those stories that seem to want to remain hidden.

It tells the stories of individuals, men and women, who together make up that decomposed puzzle called Humanity and to which we all, in some way, belong. He tells them mainly through photography. But he also writes to give a strong voice, especially to those invisible stories lost in the media turmoil of everyday life. He loves to get into complex stories and get, despite himself, entangled in them.

Gabriele Orlini talks about the travails of refugees and their hopes, sexual abuse and violence against women from Africa to South America, brothels and child soldiers, and outcasts, … but also smiles. He prefers to immerse himself in stories with medium- and long-term plans whenever possible. A teacher by vocation, he loves doing workshops to help people recognize and develop their storytelling skills.

He still believes that photography must come before its author’s name due to the respect for the stories it carries.

Gabriele Orlini in DooG Reporter

Docks
An 'on the street' journey through Europe's multi-ethnic cities to understand what remains and what is, today, of Europe.
Coexistence
The story of an encounter with a Mahut and his elephant Kropun in the jungle of Mondulkiri, Cambodia.
Mekong Notes
In Thailand, just receiving a greeting puts you in the position of wanting to respond because Sawadee is not just a greeting
Mekong Notes
Sala Keoku is a garden populated by giant statues inspired by Buddhism and Hinduism, on the banks of the Mekong
Mekong Notes
At Khlong Toei, in the heart of Bangkok, Gabriele found another piece of that uncomfortable lightness he loves so much
Mekong Notes
Eventually, by trying to become 'unseen', perhaps, we might even find our own space to take up. The Mekong Notes started, directly from Bangkok.
Places
"Now you must explain to me why you want to enter the Villa." "Because beauty starts from the bottom," I replied, staring at him straight in the eye.
Jambiani Notes
Shagala bagala (Swahili: everything is a mess). A consideration by Gabriele after three years away from Africa.
Jambiani Notes
The Sponge Ladies guard a fundamental heritage for the development of the local community, and the preservation of the environment
Jambiani Notes
Thus begins the Jambiani Notes, our story from Zanzibar
DooG For Change
Climate change and plastic pollution are changing the environment and the economy of Zanzibar, the pearl of Tanzania.
ENTIENDO | Una cruzada de paz along the Latin American routes: the docufilm produced by DooG Reporter, based on the MotoForPeace expedition to South America.
... caricamento in corso

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