DESCRIPTION
Vanity it has always triggered a huge interest, especially in the arts, just think of painters such as Tiziano and Charles Allan Gilbert or Memling but also in sculpture and literature. Since Greek mythology is expressed by the figure of Narcissus, whose history, like that of Lucifer, Adam and Eve, accompanied the protagonists to the insidious aspect of vanity itself.
“The Price of Vanity” is a project born to tell the sacrifice hidden behind the ruthless values expressed by the high fashion, and its cultural trend dominated by remorseless standards of beauty.
Despite many initiatives in the protection of enviroment and towards animals such as CITES, there are thousands of intensive breeding farms alla around the world that involve a long list of different animal species. The business volume that revolving around this trade amounts to several millions of euro per yrear and in this scenario condemns milions of animals to intensive farming for the production of clothes with furs, feathers or leather.
In this report I tell you the sacrifice of tens of thousands of Minks, killed in Poland, but this is just the story of one intensive farming while in the world there are thousands of others.
AUTHOR
Paolo Marchetti is a photojournalist based in Italy, Rome.
He has worked for thirteen years in the cinematographic and commercial industry, covering each role in the Camera Dpt.
In his photography he pays particular attention to political and anthropological issues. He has covered stories in Brazil, Central America, Cuba, Eastern Europe, India, the United States, Haiti, China, Central Africa, Colombia and Thailand.
His work has been published in Italian magazines such as L'Espresso, Internazionale, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire and many others, also in international magazines and newspapers such as 6MOIS, Sunday Times, British Journal of Photojournalism, The Guardian, Geo, Le Monde, Days Japan, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, CNN, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Time, National Geographic US and many others.
Marchetti has received several awards including the The International Photography Award, Grand Prix de Paris and he was short listed for the Luis Valtuena International Humanitarian Photography Award. He has also been awarded five times with the NPPA - Best of Photojournalism, five times with the PDN’s Award, the Sony WPO Award, the Getty Images Editorial Photography 2012, in 2013 he was finalist at the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and between the 2013 and 2014 he has been recognized with
