Bo and his friend, 2025

Giacomo Pirozzi  

Italian photographer Giacomo Pirozzi was trained as a sociologist. He became a professional photographer in 1990 when he began working for UNICEF in West Africa. Since then he has lived in the  Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Africa, Philippines and Thailand. He has traveled and photographed in 150 countries in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, and Africa. In addition to working with UNICEF and other UN agencies, Pirozzi has been published in numerous magazines, exhibitions, and other publications in many languages and countries. He has also developed a methodology to introduce photography to children living in poverty or distress and has led child photography workshops in more than 60 countries around the world. He is the author of many books, including C'est ma taille che m'a sauve (My Height Saved Me) (1997), a book about the recovery processes for children following the Rwandan genocide, Children of Africa(1999), The Rights of Children (2010), which was written to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the CRC, A Journey with Children Living and Working on the Streets in the Philippines (2011), Portraits of Children of the Indian Ocean (2012), I am a child of Uzbekistan (2016) and Through my Eyes(2018), a book of images taken by adolescents from 8 countries in South Asia during UNICEF Photography Workshops. Pirozzi is represented by Panos Pictures in London, England and presently lives between Tuscany, Italy and Thailand. He is the founder of the Tobian Art Gallery in Florence dedicated to Contemporary Art and Photography. He had solo exhibitions in many countries and many of his images are in private collections around the world