About Alex Masi - Documentary Photographer
Currently in: LONDON, UK
+44 / (0) 755.734.3017 (UK)
Alex Masi is an award-winning documentary photographer based in London, United Kingdom. Available for Editorial, NGO/Humanitarian, Portraiture and Corporate assignments.
Alex Masi's work has appeared on international publications such as 'Vanity Fair', 'The Guardian G2', 'Smithsonian Magazine', 'VIEW Magazin', 'Foreign Policy', 'The New York Times', 'GQ', 'El Pais Semanal' and 'Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin' among many others.
Recent recognitions and awards include:
Wins the prestigious Italian journalistic prize 'Enzo Baldoni', for his investigative work on birth defects in the city of Fallujah, Iraq, as a consequence to two violent US-led attacks in 2004;
Selected as a winner for the 2011 Getty Images 'Grant for Good', for his work on water pollution in Bhopal, India;
'The Photographers Giving Back' assigns a grant for the upbringing of Poonam, one of Alex's subjects in Bhopal, India. For more: NYT Lens blog article;
'Gold Prize' at the YIPPA - Yonhap International Press Photo Awards in the category 'Single -Enhancement of International Peace'. Exhibition Dates and Winners;
Wins the 2011 Focus For Humanity NGO Assignment Fellowship. See the other finalists Here. Press releases about the fellowship are available on the Bhopal Medical Appeal and Marco Ryan's (FFH) websites;
'2nd Place Series - Photojournalism/Social Documentary' for the 'FotoWeek DC International Awards Competition' in Washington DC. Exhibition to be held during the festival from 6th-13th November 2010. Winning Images;
Receives the '2010 Harry Chapin Media Award' in the Photojournalism category;
