About Agnes Montanari, photographer

I have been a nomad for more than 30 years and my curiosity and wonder for the world was born and has grown through the contact I have had with its different cultures. From Algeria, Somalia to the Sultanate of Oman, from Papua New Guinea to Bangladesh and India and from Serbia, Georgia to Yemen, I have always been eager to learn and understand through the people I have met. I carry the souvenir of these encounters in my suitcase and it is my most precious possession. It is only in 2001 that I have started to ‘record photographically’ this experience.

This has lead me to develop few projects for various organizations such as Unicef, the ICRC, UNHCR or Doctors without Borders as well as work on my own projects.

 

Publications:

 

- ‘A quiet revolution: the women of Yemen’ in Lemonde.fr, 2011

- ‘Yemen water crisis’ in Yemen Today, 2011

- Photo documentary on Khamir hospital for  ‘Doctors without Borders/France’

         Yemen, 2011

- Illustration of the activities of the European Center in Georgia

         Book to be published in 2011E

 

- ‘L’Emerveillement d’un parcours – Tibet’, catalogue, 2006

 

- ‘Youth and Refugees’, catalogue UNHCR, 2004

 

- Portfolio published in ‘La Cité des Djinns: une année à Delhi’ de William

Dalrymple, publisher. Noir sur Blanc, 2004

 

- ‘Displaced lives’, book, International Committee of the Red Cross, 2003

 

 

Exhibitions:

- 2011                  ‘A quiet revolution: the women of Yemen’

                  Exhibition Bologna, Italy

- 2006                  ‘L’Emerveillement d’un parcours – Tibet’

                  Exhibition French Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia

 

- 2005             ‘Promoting humanitarian values’ for the International Committee of the Red Cross, exhibition Skopje, Macedonia

 

- 2004                  ‘Youth and Refugees’

                  for UNHCR, exhibition, Serbia

 

- 2004                  ‘Displaced lives’

Exhibition, International Committee of the Red Cross Museum, Geneva, Switzerland

 

- 2003                  ‘Displaced lives’

Exhibition for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo

 

- 2001                  ‘City of Djinns’

                  Exhibition, Habitat Centre, Delhi, India

 

 

Teaching:

 

 

2006 – 2008          Documentary photography at the School of Journalism, Tbilisi, Georgia

 

2003 – 2005         Photography, International School of Belgrade, Serbia

 

 

Awards:

2009         Price Chatwin for the ‘Dukhobors of Georgia’

2001         ‘City of Djinns’, price for the best exhibition of the year