2014 Sony World Photography Awards - 2nd Place, Current Affairs, Professional Competition
2014 Sony World Photography Awards - 2nd Place, Lifestyle, Professional Competition
Salvatore Esposito is a documentary photographer who lives in Naples. He began working as a photojournalist for a newspaper where he worked on chronicle and particularly on organized crime. After leaving the newspaper, Salvatore began working as a freelance for the Fotogramma Agency of Milan and the historic French Agency Sipa Press in Paris, following all the news of greatest interest at the national level.
Salvatore Esposito's interest in "the human being" led him then to take care of reportage on "contemporary issues" of humanistic argument. Salvatore is a photographer committed to documenting the issues related to the profound cultural changes of the human being. As a photographer, he specialized in long-term projects, and loves to tell in depth the topics and create elements to reflect on the consequences of the social changes of human being today. Salvatore is a narrator of humanistic tradition, with a photographic approach classic, who penetrates into the stories photographing with empathy and humanity. He explores issues such as immigration, prostitution but especially organized crime, a subject that engages him still at one of the long-term work, convinced of political responsibility, says one of the most dangerous mafia in the country: the Camorra.
Salvatore undertakes one of his most complex work in Scampia, managing to break into a reality among the toughest in Europe, earning the trust of dealers of the Camorra, this will lead his work for about two and a half years. The result "Hell of Scampia" was published numerous times in Italy and abroad and was awarded several times including the Sony World Photography Award, the NPPA Award, the Prix du Documentaire, the Terry O 'Neill Award where among the other is reported for his courage and the Getty Images Grant. In 2008, Salvatore Esposito joined the Photographer Staff of Contrasto Agency and, in 2014, he was invited by Manfrotto to become the Ambassador of the company.
His works have been published in major magazines such as The Sunday Times Magazine, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, L'Espresso, International among others. In 2014, Salvatore shot his first Short Documentary called "La Cella Zero" which depicts big violations of human rights and narrates the story about the abuse by some police officers on the prisoners in the Poggioreale jail.