{"id":23679,"date":"2022-04-27T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=23679"},"modified":"2022-04-27T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:35:28","slug":"shobha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/shobha\/","title":{"rendered":"Shobha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shobha was born in Palermo in 1954. She lives between India and Italy.<br \/>\nIn <strong>1970<\/strong> she moved to Milan, in <strong>1977<\/strong> she went to live in India, where she devoted to meditation and to study oriental music. In <strong>1980<\/strong> she goes to America and in <strong>1981<\/strong> she come back in Sicily, where she started photo reporting as a photographer for the newspaper \u201cL\u2019Ora\u201d in Palermo, with her mother Letizia Battaglia and a group of young photographers. Her images portray the political and social world during the years of the \u201cMafia war\u201d, Women and the Mafia, one of the reportage of greater importance, is published by leading international newspapers. With journalist Petra Reski, she published the book: Rita Atria and the turncoats of the mafia, published in Germany by Hoffmann.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> she started dealing with social themes and international political issues and moved to Cuba to works for several foreign pnewspapers. She published with the journalist Alessandra Riccio, Congratulation Commander! A baby girl was born and Women in Cuba, published in Italy by Le Edizioni della Battaglia and in France by Desmart.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> she joined the agency Contrasto. In <strong>1995<\/strong> she exhibited at the XLVI Venice Biennale and realize reportage on contemporary art in the world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> she won the World Press Photo Award for a reportage on Sicily, and became an exhibition and a book entitled The Last Gattopardi by Paolo Falcone, published by Contrasto Agency.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> Palermo. She collaborates with TPW &#8211; Toscana Photography Workshop.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> she was invited by the Iraqi Society for Photography in Baghdad.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2001<\/strong> she received the Hansel Mieth Preis for the reportage Church and the Mafia with journalist Petra Reski. In the same year she founded with Paul Falcone the Micromuseum for contemporary art and culture in Palermo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> she won for the second time the World Press Photo Award, with a reportage on fashion and revolution in Senegal, which has became an exhibition and a book entitled The Angels of Medina.<br \/>\nThe same year she is invited to Photoespa\u00f1a, the International Festival of Photography femeninos, in Madrid. <strong>2003<\/strong> she began a collaboration with UNICEF, reporting on trafficking of children in the Balkans.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong> she received the Giacomelli Prize in memory of Osvaldo Buzzi in Benevento.<\/li>\n<li>Since <strong>2005<\/strong> began to use photography as a therapy, reporting the autism through a group of young autistic and teaching photography to a group of guys, suffering the Down Syndrome, she realize Confetti of love and a exhibition Love story with a video documentary. The traveling exhibition was hosted in Brescia during the festival Disability.<\/li>\n<li>Since <strong>2007<\/strong> she started working with video and founded the association Mother India School \u2013 travelling Projects &#8211; www.motherindiaschool.it a school of photography that combines workshops and video documentary with special focus on the female world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2008<\/strong> she is invited with her mother Letizia Battaglia, to the Festival des Tops in China, with a project on the Mafia and the Sicilian aristocracy. In the same year she made for Planeta Journey in Sicily, a project that becomes an exhibition, a video and a book published by Planeta.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong> Amsterdam NL &#8211; Metis Gallery. Anger &amp; Silence exhibition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong> Sri-Lanka &#8211; exhibition and video Vassana, a raw tale of a child born in a cemetery abused, later she was adopted by Mother India School. <strong>2010<\/strong> Cambodia: Wat Lanka, a project on the Buddhist nuns who survived the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010<\/strong> She collaborated with an international group of women surgeon, &#8220;Women for Women&#8221; &#8211; IPRAS (International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery) violence against women, victims of vitriol.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011<\/strong> She was invited by Professor Zannier to take part to the Venice Biennale, with a work on Buddhist nuns who survived the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>2010<\/strong> she received the award CIVITAS, for the brave civil and social commitment, a symbol of friendship between Italy and India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011<\/strong> Exhibition: A Journey at 54. Venice Biennale a project on the Venice Biennale for the foundation Sambuca di Palermo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011-12<\/strong> in collaboration with Port Authority of Ravenna, carries out a project on the territory of the dock: New Dock for Ravenna capital of the future, it became an exhibition and later the project expands on Piallassa of Ravenna.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong> Perpignan International Festival of Photojournalism, with a project on the illegal horse racing with underage in Palermo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong> Ragusa Photo Festival &#8211; Video shows: when the acid disfigures the soul, a project against the violence on women, victims of vitriol.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong> Award Montessori &#8211; Culture of legality, to Letizia Battaglia and Shobha.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong> Corigliano Calabro Photography, exhibition and video installation: Breathing Dust &#8211; goddesses of dust, a project on the construction female workers in India. In <strong>2014<\/strong> Nepal Project: Kumari &#8211; young living goddesses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong> Santarcangelo &#8211; Romagna- International Festival of Theatre in square &#8211; Workshop on 11-13 July<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong> Siena &#8211; Court of Miracoli- Workshop: &#8220;Tell me a story&#8221; \u2013 on 3th to 6th October<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong> Caltanissetta &#8211; Cefpas- event Shots of love. Treat with images. Show: &#8220;Story of love. Nine special boys photographing Palermo with Shobha and screening of the video: &#8220;with our eyes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong> Palermo \u2013 Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa &#8220;Poetical Politics sounds and visions against the crisis # 5&#8221; Shobha Video Presentation: &#8220;Wat Lanka&#8221; a project on the Buddhist nuns survivors to the genocide of Pol Pot in Cambodia and &#8220;Breathing Dust \u2013 goddesses of dust&#8221; a project on construction workers in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015<\/strong> Expo Milan 2015 &#8211; Italia Inside Out. Italian Photographers, curated by Giovanna Calvenzi www.palazzodellaragionefotografia.it<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015<\/strong> Triennale of Milan &#8211; time of women. Workshop of photography and meditation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2017<\/strong> Poland 7th FotoArtFestival exhibits: &#8220;Palermo &#8211; Borgo Vecchio&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018<\/strong> Exhibits in France &#8220;The Last Leopard&#8221; at the Maison de la Culture d&#8217;Amiens, with Letizia Battaglia (Mafia).<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018<\/strong> Palermo Centro Internazionale di Fotografia. The Street is watching \u2013 the largest street photography anthology in the World.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018<\/strong> Rome &#8211; Palazzo delle Esposizioni &#8211; The Other Look. Italian Photographs 1965-2018.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong> Garfagnana Prize Rodolfo Pucci 2019: &#8220;La Fibula d&#8217;oro&#8221; &#8211; 21\u00b0 Edition Garfagnana Fotografiaf.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong> Etna Photo Prize Le Gru 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong> Palermo International Center of Photography. Collective Exhibition with photographers of newspaper &#8220;l&#8217;Ora&#8221; &#8211; The Mafia in Palermo.<br \/>\nShobha exhibited in expos in Italy and in foreign museums and in the most important galleries, she has published on the most important Italian and foreign magazine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2020<\/strong> Levanzo: Dreams that become images. Sisterhood &#8211; creative workshop with Shobha.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> She is invited to take part in the special Cultural Change commission of the W20, whose goal is to include 100 women in the history books, a gender cultural equality project for the revision of the books of primary and lower and secondary schools.<br \/>\nA task force of teachers, academics, science, arts and history specialists, led by professor Fabiana Giacomotti, professor of Cultural Studies at Sapienza and author.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> Fluminimaggiore: Women are power &#8211; Extraordinary encounters &#8211; Andaras Traveling Film Festival 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2020\u201321<\/strong> Forl\u00ec. Being human &#8211; great photographers tell the world. San Domenico Museums from 28 November 2020 to 20 February 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> Trieste: Zeropixel Photography Festival 2021. Thematic group show \u201cBody \/ Body\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> Palermo: International Center of Photography. Geography of the soul &#8211; Shobha&#8217;s personal exhibition. The exhibition presents five works by the artist, which interact with the poems of the Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner for literature, Wislawa Szymborska.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She currently carries out her anthropological research projects in Asia, with photography, video and writing.<br \/>\nIn Italy, Shobha is represented by Contrasto Agency since 1991.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shobha.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>www.shobha.it<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shobha was born in Palermo in 1954. She lives between India and Italy. In 1970 she moved to Milan, in 1977 she went to live in India, where she devoted to meditation and to study oriental music. 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