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A tremendous travel project by internationally renowned photographer Valerio VincenzoEvery border in Europe, outer and inner, has been captured in a photo Borders within Europe are far from absolute. They have been blurring steadily ever since the Schengen agreements of 1985. Twenty-six countries with a total border diameter of 16,500 kilometers can be freely traversed by anyone. Armed only with a GPS, local ordnance maps, and his trusty camera, photographer Valerio Vincenzo explores liminal spaces between political-cultural territories. He captures what is left over: tranquility, beauty, calm, peace and freedom. His photos all evoke one question: What are borders, really? Text in English and French.
About the Author
Valerio Vincenzo was born in Naples, Italy in 1973. He lives between the Netherlands, Paris and Milan. Before becoming a photographer in 2004, he worked as a strategy consultant
in France and then as an NGO administrator
in Indonesia. He currently collaborates with the international press while leading a number of artistic projects.
The Borderline project, ongoing since 2007, was awarded the 2013 Louise Weiss Prize for European Journalism, the first time that such an award has been granted to a photo project, and nominated for the 2016 Canon Silver Camera Awards in the Netherlands. The project has been exposed numerous times, in particular on the railings of the UNESCO headquarters
in Paris in 2015 and at the Street Art Museum in St Petersburg in 2016.
It has been featured by a number of prestigious media worldwide, such as Financial Times in the UK, GEO and Le Monde in France, Stern in Germany, Vrij Nederland in the Netherlands, El País in Spain, Internazionale in Italy, Courrier Japan in Japan and Newsweek, Wired and CNN in the USA.
Valerio is a member of the creative platform Hans Lucas in France and he's represented by DeBeeldunie in the Netherlands.
