• Gianfranco Tripodo

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Frontera Sur

Frontera Sur is multi-platform project that aims to recount the migratory phenomenon around the European southern border. Gianfranco Tripodo utilizes pictures, videos and audio interviews in order to tell the path that many migrants, mostly from the sub-saharan african region, undertake to enter into the two exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. This long term project is a direct proof of the circumstances that have happened during the last years around the fence that divides Europe and Africa and it tells the stories of the many people who have tried, and sometimes succed, to pass the border.

Portfolio

tripodo_portfolio_2021_002 Spanish award-winner actor Javier Camara. Madrid, Spain, 2016
tripodo_portfolio_2021_006 Spanish TV host and comedian Andreu Buenafuente. Madrid, Spain, 2018
tripodo_portfolio_2021_003 North American actor Giancarlo Esposito. Madrid, Spain, 2017
tripodo_portfolio_2021_013 American actor John Hamm. Madrid, Spain 2017
alvaro-morte Spanish actor Alvaro Morte. Madrid, Spain, 2018
tripodo_portfolio_2021_027 Spanish actress Megan Montanerg. Madrid, Spain, 2019
tripodo_portfolio_2021_026 Spanish actress Michelle Jenner. Madrid, Spain, 2018
tripodo_portfolio_2021_009 British actress Tilda Swinton. Milan, Italy, 2017
tripodo_portfolio_2021_017 Spanish singer Christina Rosevinge. Madrid, Spain, 2018
tripodo_portfolio_2021_010 Spanish actress Ana Polvorosa. Madrid, Spain, 2018
tripodo_portfolio_2021_008 Spanish movie director José Luis Cuerda. Madrid, Spain, 2016
tripodo_portfolio_2021_012 Spanish actor Chino Darin. Madrid, Spain, 2018
tripodo_portfolio_2021_020 American musician Rufus Wainwright. Madrid, Spain, 2020
tripodo_portfolio_2021_015 Mexican actress Cecilia Suarez. Madrid, Spain, 2019
tripodo_portfolio_2021_018 Thurston Moore, North American musician and leader of the band Sonic Youth. Madrid, Spain, 2017
tripodo_portfolio_2021_025 Spanish writer Fernando Aramburu poses for a portrait inside the Club Matador. Madrid, Spain, 2017
wes-anderson American film director Wes Anderson. Madrid, Spain, 2018
tripodo_portfolio_2021_005 Spanish singer and music producer Dellafuente. Barcelona, Spain, 2019
tripodo_portfolio_2021_014 Still photography for the HBO show Los Mariachis. Guadalajara, Spain, 2020
tripodo_portfolio_2021_029 Spanish actor Miguel Bernadeu. Madrid, Spain, 2019
tripodo_portfolio_2021_022 International launch of the Gain, the new e-bike by Orbea. Asturias, Spain, 2020
tripodo_portfolio_2021_028 American actor Joseph Fiennes poses for a portrait in an hotel as he was promoting HBO show "The Handmaid tale" in Spain. Madrid, Spain, 2017
tripodo_portfolio_2021_024 Spanish singer and music producer C Tangana. Madrid, Spain, 2016
tripodo_portfolio_2021_004 Spanish singer Rosalia poses for a portrait inside Palacio Santoña. Madrid, Spain, 2018
tripodo_portfolio_2021_023 North American actor Andrew Lincoln. Madrid, Spain, 2017
asier_etxeandia Spanish actor Asier Etxeandia. Madrid, Spain, 2018
tripodo_portfolio_2021_021 American musician Thundercat. Madrid, Spain, 2017
tripodo_portfolio_2021_007 Spanish singer and music producer Bad Gyal. Madrid, Spain, 2018

Gianfranco Tripodo was born in 1981 in Manila, the Philippines.
His work seamlessly navigates between documentary and portrait photography. Raised in Naples, he obtained his degree in Media Science at the University of Bologna in 2002. Since 2005 he has lived in Madrid, Spain, where he began his photographic career. He has worked on assignment for the most prominent magazines and newspapers in the world.
He always had a genuine interest in the migratory issues and in 2010 he embarked in a documentary project aiming to record the dramatic situation of the sub-saharan migrants in Ceuta and Melilla, the two Spanish enclaves in Morocco. This work gained several prizes and recognitions like the World Press Photo – Single image, Spot News category, it was finalist of the
Prix ANI-PixPalace and it had an honorable mention at the Premio Ponchielli.
The book “DUO 04- Frontera Sur”,was finalist at the Best Photobook Award at the PhotoEspaña Festival.
Besides the editorial assignments, he regularly work with brands such as Adidas, HBO, Red Bull, Puma, Orbea, Sony Music, Universal Music among others.

Madrid, Spain

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Frontera Sur

Books

DUO 04- Frontera Sur. PHREE. 2015

Awards

2016. Shortlisted at the Spanish Photobook Award at the PhotoEspaña Festival with the book “DÚO 04. Sobre la Frontera Sur”
2016. Nominated for the Elliot Erwitt Havana Club Fellowship
2016. Nominated. ING Unseen Talent Award
2016. Selected at Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalists in Hannover
2015. World Press Photo, 3rd Prize, General News- Single Image
2015. Honorable mention Premio Amilcare G. Ponchielli for “Frontera Sur”
2013. Shortlisted Prix ANI-PixPalace with Frontera Sur
2011/2009. Nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass
2008. 1st prize at ARCO Award

Exhibitions & Screenings

2016. Frontera Sur, collective exhibition. Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalists. Hannover, Germany
2016. Frontera Sur, collective exhibition. PhotOn Festival. Valencia, Spain
2015. Frontera Sur, collective exhibition. World Press Photo. Worldwide
2012. Frontera Sur, collective exhibition. Reflexions Masterclass, Rencontres des Photographie, Arles
2011. XX, La misura dell’Ombra, collective exhibition for Biennale di Venezia. Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Madrid, Spain
2009. Bang Koh, collective exhibition. Traffic Festival. Barcelona, Spain