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Emanuele Lami

Photographer

Emanuele Lami

John

When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere, just ask him. If you listen, he’ll tell you how he got there. How he forgot where he was going, and that he woke up. If you listen, he’ll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel or dreamt of being perfect. And then he’ll smile with wisdom, content that he realized the world isn’t perfect. John was born in Holland, where he becomes a famous dancer. He moves to Berlin in 1980 In 1984 he gets HIV. Since then he lives with the virus. The project won the Leica 24x36 Talents Award in march 2012.

Emanuele Lami

Born in Rome in 1983. In 2006 he got a degree in international economics in Rome. Between 2007 and 2009, he studied photography at the Neue Schule für Photographie in Berlin. Since 2010, he works as a freelance photographer. He has worked with various newspapers and magazines, both Italian and German, such as Corriere della Sera, TAZ, and Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin. In 2011, his works were picked for an exhibit at the Venice Biennale, where he won the 2011 Venice Biennale Under35 Artist Training Prize; while in 2012, he won the Leica 24X36 Talents Award.