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”Born in Catania on 1958, Massimo Siragusa is highly talented in color photography. His professional career in photography began in 1987; two years later, after a series of underwater portraits, he won the Italian selection of the European Kodak Award. After moving to Milano in 1990, Siragusa joins Contrasto.
He carried out many reportages in Italy and abroad. His attention has been focused on various issues, as the Vatican and the Pope. His pictures have regularly been published in magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, El Pais, Blanco y Negro, Die Zeit, Mediterranee, Travel Leisure, Geo (Germany and Japan), Le Figaro Magazine, The NewYorker, Merian, ”D”di Repubblica, US News.
On June 1992, his reportage on Italian miners was awarded with the first prize in the CGIL (Italian union) contest on the theme "The Changing Work". He also took part to many projects and relative catalogues: 24 hours in Cyberspace”, ”Rome and the Jubilee”, ”Etna and its Territory” and ”Knowledge of a Value” (a reportage of public employement in Italy assigned by Ministry of Public Office.
In the edition 1997 of the World Press Photo, he won the second best prize in the "Daily Life" category with his "Need for a miracle" reportage. His work about circus, called ”The Magic Circle” was chosen by LEICA International for the 1998 Edition of Photokina, in Köln, as well as being awarded with the first prize at the World Press Photo 1999, ”Arts and Entertainment” category, and the Italian section of the Fuji Film Euro Press Photo Awards 1999 .
He held many personal exhibitions: ”International Encounters for Photography in Arles”, ”International Encounters for Photography in Alberobello”, LEICA Gallery-Polyphoto in Milano, Turin's 7th Photographical Biennal, EOS Gallery in Milano,
In the same year at organized by the Italian foundation for Photography the reportage "Need for a miracle" is displayed. This same exhibit is displayed at the Galleria del Credito Valtellinese in Florence, Museo del Folclore in Rome and Casa Museo Stesicorea and Libreria Cavallotto in Catania.
For a few years now he's also been worker as photography teacher and advertising photographer, working on many advertising jobs to promote farms such as Lavazza, IGP, Kodak, ENI, BAT Italia, Alfa Romeo and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
He published the following books:
”L'Avventura Di Diventare Grandi” (Editori P.G.Frassati, 1994)
”Il Vaticano” (Federico Motta Editori, 1999)
”Il Cerchio Magico” (Edizioni Contrasto, 2001)
”Credi” (Domenico Sanfilippo Editore, 2003)
Massimo Siragusa joined Contrasto in 1990 ”

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”Contrasto is a unique enterprise in the field of photography. Contrasto was born in the 80's to be a point of reference for quality photojournalism.

The agency's photographers, in addition to its close contact with the information and culture worlds, allows Contrasto to be a leader in the field of author photography.

Its vast range of activities (production and distribution of images for journalism, advertising and image consulting, fashion and publishing, archives available online) is guaranteed by the various resources it draws from; Most notably Magnum, the prestigious agency founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Contrasto is publishing house as well, working to realize photographic books, and exhibits in cooperation with Italy's public and private institutions.

The high level of Contrasto photographers' amounts to a gallery of unique images suitable for collecting purposes as well.”

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