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.