About

Samuel Bregolin is an Italian photographer, video journalist and DoP. Based in Mexico City, he works for the international press, in long-term documentary projects, film productions, and educational workshops. After studying modern literature at the University of Bologna, Italy, he moves to the Balkans and North Africa. Since 2015 he has been working on Latin America.

This is not about photography, this is about sharing a story, the act of photographing is only the last step in Samuel Bregolin’s work. The social, economic and political differences between the majority of the world’s population and the few who hold the power will always be the common thread of his work.

His journalistic reports were published by: RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana, France24, El País, Der Spiegel, Internazionale, POY Latam, Serbian edition of National Geographic, Osservatorio Balcani e 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 the exhibition of photography exhibitions, talks and portfolio reviews.