Luciano del Castillo (born 23 June 1960, Palermo) is an Italian photographer and journalist specializing in war photography.
Biographyedit
Castillo started working in 1980 as a photojournalist in Palermo for daily newspaperL'Ora and the agency Informazione fotografica by Letizia Battaglia and Franco Zecchin. In 1987, Castillo collaborated for "Action Press" in Hamburg on issues in Eastern European nations such as Romania, Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. In 1986 and also from 1994 to 1996, he realized monographic dossiers for Iberian television TV3.
He was a speaker at a conference on the role of photography in war zones; the conference was organized by the Italian Foundation of Photography and took place in Turin in April 2002. In 2002, he published a dossier on the dangers of being a war reporter for weekly magazine Diario.
From 2002 to the end of 2005, he worked mainly abroad in areas of conflict, including for the Italian Department of Civil Defense for missions carried out in countries affected by natural disasters. Assignments he attended to were for an earthquake in Bam, Iran;[2] an earthquake in Al Hoceima, Morocco; and the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka.[3]
In 2005, he published a dossier from Nasiriya, Iraq titled "Brigata Combat Camera" in the weekly magazine L'Espresso.
Castillo has collaborated, along with Professor Luigi Goglia, with the faculty of history of journalism and mass communication at Università degli Studi Roma Tre.
Castillo was a teacher at the annual course for journalists working in areas of crisis, organized by the Ministry of Defense and in collaboration with the Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana.
In 2008, he contributed to the publication of the Palestinian magazine "Wameed" [4]
Exhibitionsedit
Dalla luna al vento (cf. lagazzettanizzena.it), [1] School Library Institute ITCG Mario Rapisardi, February 2015, Caltanissetta
Ventanas [2] (cf. prensa-latina.cu), (Noviembre Fotográfico cf. fototecadecuba.com), Casa del Alba Cultural, November 2013, The Havana, Cuba
Grida Silenziose on Tsunami in Sri Lanka, Provincia di Roma, January- February 2005, Rome
A proposito di Est (Fotografia Festival di Roma cf. edizioni.fotografiafestival.it), April 2005, Rome
Danni collaterali (cf. corriere.it) March 2007, Rome
Suggestioni (Fotografia Festival di Roma, archiviostorico.corriere.it, cf. edizioni.fotografiafestival.it), May - June 2007, Rome
Con il cuore negli occhi (Reggio Photo Fest, 2008;[permanent dead link], cf. repubblica.it)
I volti della crisi (cf. regione.toscana.it)[permanent dead link] agosto 2009, Marciana Marina, Isola d'Elba
Se la guerra è civile (cf. repubblica.it, cf. ecodisicilia.com), February 2010, Palermo
Microcosmos XV Italian Culture week in Cuba (cf. ansa.it),[3], (cf. amblavana.esteri.it), [4] Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine November 26 - December 2, 2012, Havana, Cuba
Cover photo: Una vita, una speranza: Antonino Caponnetto (cf. bonannoeditore.com), a cura di Pierluigi Diaco e Roberto Pavone, Bonanno editore 1993
Cover photo: Curzi: il mestiere di giornalista, una conversazioneOCLC 34810472, Pierluigi Diaco e Alessandro Curzi, Transeuropa editrice 1995
Cover photo: El ultimo nazi (Priebke de la Argentina a Italia juicio a medio siglo de historia), (cf. abebooks.com), Elena Llorente e Martino Rigacci, Editorial Sudamericana, Barcelona, 1998
Genoa. White Book, Ed. Genoa Social Forum in collaboration with "L’Unità", "Liberazione", il manifesto, 2001
The path of movement. From Seattle to Porto Alegre in 2003 to one hundred million to the streets to the peace, (cf. www.intramoenia.it), AA. VV. Ed. Carta Intra Moenia, 2003
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, John Roth, Carol Rittner, Ed. Continuum, 2004
Rapporto sulle attività internazionali 2002-2006 (cf. protezionecivile.it), edited by Italian Department of Civil Defense, 2006
Il cinema e il caso Moro, Francesco Ventura Ed. Le Mani-Microart'S, 2008
Sri Lanka, il rendiconto (cf. protezionecivile.it), edited by Italian Department of Civil Defense, 2008
Cover photo: Еще один круг на карусели - One More Ride on the Merry-go-round,(cf. slovo-online.ru), Tiziano Terzani, Russian edition, Slovo Publisher, Moscow, 2009
Don Vito. Le relazioni segrete tra Stato e mafia nel racconto di un testimone d'eccezione, Massimo Ciancimino e Francesco la Licata, (cf. lafeltrinelli.it), 2010;
La città cosmopolita. 1 Geografie dell'ascolto, Vincenzo Guarrasi (cf. palumboeditore.it), 2012
Poesía escondida - La Habana - Cuba, Luciano del Castillo (cf. Tempesta editore) (cf. Ansa.it), (cf. fotoup.net), (cf. amblavana.esteri.it), 2012
Nord Meridiano, Francesco De Filippo, Maria Frega (cf. Editori Internazionali Riuniti), 2014
Dalla luna al vento, donne nelle fotografie di Luciano del Castillo, Luciano del Castillo (cf. Tempesta editore), (cf Ansa.it), (cf. repubblica.it), 2014