Emiliano Medardo Barbieri is a documentary photographer and videographer born in Bologna. He studied photography at Spazio Labo’ school for two years, later earning a master’s degree in documentary photography with Paolo Marchetti (National Geographic photographer with numerous publications in major international journals). With Marchetti, he pursued private studies before completing his training at the Jack London School of Photography and Applied Literature Journalism in Fermo province.
For three years he lived and traveled throughout South America, visiting 47 countries while developing narratives and images to document social and natural events of our world.