Francesco Merlini
(untitled) (Single)
DESCRIPTION
Lomé, Togo. Akodessewa Marche des Feticheurs (Akodessawa Fetish Marke). This market is the world's largest voodoo market.
In the picture: Bertin plays with a python. Snakes are used generally to protect newborns. Teeth of vipers, once pulverized, are injected in the body in order to get protection from snake bites.
AUTHOR
Francesco was born in Aosta in 1986 and he’s based in Milan. After a bachelor's degree in industrial design at the Politecnico University of Milan, he completely devoted himself to photography. After covering Italian news, now he works mainly on personal long-term projects, reportages and editorials.
In 2012, Francesco has been published on the book “Mono vol. One” alongside renowned photographers such as Daido Moryiama, Anders Petersen and Antoine D’agata. In 2016 he has been selected by the British Journal of Photography in order to be part of “The Talent Issue: Ones to Watch”. In 2020 Francesco has been nominated for the “Prix HSBC pour la Photographie”.
His pictures have have been published on national and international magazines and newspapers including Washington Post, Financial Times, Le Monde, L'Espresso, Internazionale, Corriere della Sera, D La Repubblica, Sette, Wired, Gq, Die Welt, La Stampa, Rolling Stone and his projects have been exhibited worldwide in collective and solo exhibitions.
Francesco’s first book “The Flood”, published by Void, will be launched in 2020.
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