Samuel Bregolin is an Italian photographer. He works for the international press, in long-term documentary projects, film productions, and educational workshops. He is a self-taught photographer, since 2008 he has traveled as a freelance photojournalist to the Balkans and North Africa. In 2015 he moved to Latin America, where for ten years he followed the long-term personal project “The Open Veins”, inspired by the writings of Eduardo Galeano. Is courrently based in Perugia, Italy.
His journalistic reports have been published by: Der Spiegel, El País, RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana, Internazionale, France24, Serbian edition of National Geographic, Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso, among others.
In 2014, he published his first written travel diary in the Tunisia of the dictator Ben Ali. “Tunisia, storie di carovana in Viaggio” Rome, Edda Edizioni.
From 2021 to 2023 he was part of OjoRojo Fábrica Visual, a no profit organization based in Bogotá, which aims to promote documentary photography and photojournalism in Colombia and Latin America. With OjoRojo Fábrica Visual Samuel Bregolin organized photographic workshops in popular neighborhoods and cultural centers, and curated photographic exhibitions, talks and portfolio reviews.
2014 – Written travel diary “Tunisia, storie di carovana in viaggio” Rome, Edda Edizioni
2018 – Finalist at Jacopo Tosio Grant by EFTI
2019 – War Reporting Training Camp
2020 – Executive producer, “Mi casa es tu casa” documentary, Jole Films, directed by Diego Scano
2020 – Director, short video documentary “Oasis”, Internazionale
2021 – Workshop “Journalistic Coverage of Migration and its link to Sustainable Development” by Fundación GABO
2021 – “Días de hambre” Coup de coeur, Prix ANI-PRixTrakk Visa pour l’Image
2022 – Curator, “Zurumbático” photo exposition by Luis Cobelo at OjoRojo Fábrica Visual
2022 – Curator, “Cazuca visual” colective photo exposition by Tiempo de Juego Foundation and OjoRojo Fábrica Visual
2023 – Director, short documentary “Violations in the Guatemalan armed conflict 1982“, El salto Diario