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Marco Vernaschi

Marco Vernaschi

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Profession: Photojournalist
Location: buenos aires , Argentina
Home base: Buenos Aires - Argentina
URL: http://www.marcovernaschi.com
URL: http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/marco_vernaschi
Email: •••••••• (private)
Languages spoken: Italian, English, Spanish, French
Organization: Freelance
Journal: http://marcovernaschi-home.blogspot.com
MSN Messenger: marco_ve@hotmail.com
Skype: Marcovernaschi marcovernaschi
Mobile phone: 0054-9-11-62654616
Home phone: 0054-11-47771731
Work phone 0054-11-47771731
Emergency notes: Contact 0039-011-3187079.
Blood type: A RH -
Last login: 14 days ago
Member since: 25 Feb 2007 00:02

About

Marco Vernaschi is an Italian photojournalist and filmmaker born on 1973.

After living and working for four years in Paris, he moved to Buenos Aires where he’s currently based.

He started to work as photojournalist in 2000 covering, during the first years, several wildlife and environmental issues.

He’s now focusing on social and geopolitical transformations affecting the human condition. His work is much oriented toward the real-people behind the “news”, and this is the main reason why most of his projects are long-term projects.

He’s been working from 2006 to present mostly in South America covering personal projects on the effects on the indigenous people of the incresing cocaine trafficking and production, the Bolivian miners’ fratricide war and the daily struggle for life of the Quechua indigenous living in the remote salt desert of Northern Argentina.

His work has been published by major magazines, such as National Geographic, GEO, Mother Jones and Days Japan among the others.
His story “Bolivia, Broken Promises” was defined by the New York Times as “unprecedented”.

Marco is currently working on his first 90 minutes – HD documentary “COCAINA: The Untold Truth”, based on his story “Bolivia, Broken Promises”. He will shoot his second documentary “Western Africa: The New Narco Region” in 2009, as the second chapter of a three part documentary series.
In the same period he will also cover a large photostory on the same issue.

Testimonials


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Marco Vernaschi. "Cocaine: He's not Dreaming of a White Christmas" MARIE CLAIRE - UK, [none], Dec 1 2008.
Marco Vernaschi. "Sulle Strade della Coca" MARIE CLAIRE Italy, [none], Oct 1 2008.
Marco Vernaschi. "Cocaine Trade" Mother Jones, pp. VIDEO_cocaine. [none], Jul 15 2008.
Marco Vernaschi. "Bolivia's Cocaine Trade: A Bitter Leaf" Mother Jones, [none], Jul 1 2008.
Marco Vernaschi. "COCAINA: The Untold Truth" ReThink Entertainment, Canada, pp. VIDEO DOCUMENTARY. [none], Jul 1 2008.
Marco Vernaschi. "Cocaine - Bolivia" Days Japan Magazine, [none], Apr 1 2008.
Marco Vernaschi. "Life is salty- Vidas de Sal " National Geographic, [none], Oct 1 2007.
Marco Vernaschi. Dias de Sal y Sudor GEO Spain, GRUNER & JAHR, Aug 1 2007.
Marco Vernaschi. The Salt Drama GEO International, [none], Jul 1 2007.
Marco Vernaschi. The Bitter Taste of Salt - GEO SPECIAL, pp. pp. 52 to 60. GRUNER & JAHR, Oct 4 2006.

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Recent Post

Marco Vernaschi's NEW SITE NOW ON-LINE

Hi All,

I have finally updated and completed my new web site (multimedia will come soon…) which is optimized to be watched at 1024×768, full screen.

If you have time, take a look:

www.marcovernaschi.com

Every comment/suggestion is welcome, as usual.

Bye!

Marco

23 Sep 2008 01:09 | 5 replies

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