Mario Farinato

Milan, Italy

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<style>  </style> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext">Mario Farinato began his career as assistant photographer at Boss Model in New York in 1997 with Calvin French.</span><span class="longtext"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></span> In 1998, he worked with Doron Hanoch on a portfolio of pictures for "Via Torino Inc. New York," and in<span class="longtext"> 2000, he did several reports for tourism magazines. Back in Europe in 2001, he started work as a photo-reporter for the Granata Press Agency and Emmeviphoto.</span><span class="longtext"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span> In Geneva, he worked as a correspondent at the United Nations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>In October of 2005, Farinato produced a reportage for WWF on the covering of the glacier in Andermatt, Switzerland and this photo was featured by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera as Photo of the Day.</span> <style> </style><span class="longtext">In 2009, he won honorable mention in Italy for artistic merit following a reportage about immigration and integration. Farinato's photo was used for the front<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span> cover of the the official Italian publication “Immigration and integration”</span> <a href="http://www.immigrazioneoggi.it/">http://www.immigrazioneoggi.it</a><span class="longtext"></span><span class="longtext">. Also in 2009, three of his photos representing the Milan of the future were chosen on artistic merit to be part of an exhibition dedicated to the city of Milan: Milan and the Future, organized by the Corriere della Sera in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan. In 2010, three of his photographs depicting e-democracy were published in "E-democracy your voice," the official publication of the region of Veneto, Italy and received a special mention for artistic merit. </span><span class="longtext">In November 2010, Mario Farinato won an award for artistic merit from the Italian Department for Health and Welfare in Rome, with a special mention:</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"> "Programma Integrazione”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span> of the Department for Health and Welfare in the nation's capital of Rome, has seen the photo and through a careful and sensitive assessment of the fruit of five years of work producing editorial content representing the issues of integration of migrants and refugees, has identified the photo of Mario Farinato, Land of Noone, La Plaine (on the border between Switzerland and France), 2010, the one that best conveys the idea of the boundary between <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">“the no longer and still not" provided for people who are on a journey to rebuild their lives.</b></span><span class="longtext"> Programma Integrazione, will exhibit this and his other works at the Town Centre on Migration, Asylum and integration of Roma Capitale, in the permanent exhibition space. “</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext">In April 2010, Mario lost his daughter Lene. He opened a page on facebook in her memory, and this page has become a forum and meeting place for people who have lost their children. He started working full time in this direction and his efforts to help other parents led Mario Farinato to write a book for children about the story of a princess who learns how to cook and fill the world with sweetness and love. Thanks to all the mothers populating Lene's page on facebook, the book is published and will be available in stores in Italy in time for Christmas. For this amazing event, Mario Farinato thanks all the who people helped him put together this project. The publisher of the book is Edizioni Segno  -- http://www.edizionisegno.it/.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext">Special thanks to Associazione della speranza -- http://www.acsss.it/</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext">Mario Farinato's photos have been published in Earth Matters, by David de Rothschild, a children's encyclopedia on the environment, and Global Warming, by Paul Brown, a guide on how to preserve the environment.<br></span> </p>

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