DAVIDE MONTELEONE – SPASIBO
2014-10-06The exhibition, Spasibo features work by the Italian-born photographer Davide Monteleone, the 4th winner of the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award, carried out in Chechnya between December 2012 and April 2013 and depicts the threat to the Chechen identity.
Davide Monteleone started his career in 2000, when he became an editorial photographer for the Contrasto agency. The next year he moved to Moscow as a correspondent. Since 2003, Monteleone has lived between Italy and Russia, pursuing long-term personal projects. He published his first book Dusha, Russian Soul in 2007, followed by La Linea Inesistente in 2009, and Red Thistle in 2012.
A book of photographs entitled Spasibo has been published by Kehrer
Exhibition runs from October 11th to November 3rd, 2014
Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York’s HQ
King’s Road
London
SW3 4RY
