MARINA SPIRONETTI

Good news! Results of the 2017 Tokyo International Foto Awards have been announced and I am pleased to announce two of my projects have been awarded silver and gold in two different categories. The picture story of the wedding of Patrick and Fanny was a silver winner in the category People- Wedding. The wedding of Patrick and Fanny was celebrated in February 2017 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Patrick is a Burkinabé; Fanny is a French national. Beyond being a reportage of the

Very good news - my picture story about Sardinian carnival traditions won second prize in the first edition of the Tokyo International Foto Awards. The winning images - which can be seen here - are part of an ongoing project about traditions in the island of Sardinia, Italy, with special attention to the inland sub-region of the Barbagia. The images were taken in February 2016 and document the carnival traditions of four villages of that area; the "Boes et Merdules" in Ottana