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Samantha Casolari MA
PHOTOGRAPHY
AWARDS, EXPERIENCE AND EXHIBITIONS (2006 - 2007)
Winner
Jaxter Artist Award Australia, 2006
Winner
Coupe International Design and Image Competition Awards, 2006
Finalist
Utopia New Photography Exhibition at the Miller Sheets Gallery, L.A., 2006
Selected
by Upstream People Gallery 6th Annual Summer All Media
International Juried Art Exhibition, 2006
Selected
by Altered Esthetics Gallery Guerrilla Art International Juried Show, 2006
Selected
by Gallery 8 “Heath” 2006
Juried Art Show, 2006
Selected
by Energy Gallery “2-d-3-d” International Art Juried Show, 2006
Selected
by Projekt30 July Juried Exhibition, 2006
Selected
by International Juried Competition, Art Kudos, 2006
Selected
by Edward Hopper House Art Center Juried Show, Photography 2006
Competition
Selected
by International Juried Art Competition - Exit Gallery Space, Cleveland,
Ohio, 2006
Recipient
of Honorable Mention - American Society of Media Photographers / PDN
Image’06 Competition
Recipient
of Honorable Mention - Jen Bekman Gallery – Hot Hot Shot Spring
Competition 2006
Recipient
of Honorable Mention - International Photography Award 2005 (IPA)
Dazzle
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan – Solo Show - ‘Bushwick Series’ (Upcoming
Summer 2007)
Farmany
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA – ‘North Uganda’ (Upcoming Spring 2007)
Neonplus
Gallery, Berlin, Germany (Upcoming December 2006)
Energy
Gallery, Toronto Canada - “2-d-3-d” International Art Juried Show
(September – November 2006)
B&D
Studio Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (Upcoming Fall 2006)
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Gallery, Milan, Italy (Upcoming September 2006)
Miller
Sheet Gallery, Los Angeles, CA – UTOPIA New Photography Exhibition
(September – October 2006)
KFMK
Gallery, Chelsea (Upcoming September 2006)
Altered
Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN – Guerrilla Art International Juried
Show ‘Life After Sing Sing’ (August – Sept. 2006)
2006
Art Kudos International Online Exhibition -
www.artkudos.com ‘Bushwick Series’ (August 2006)
Upstream
People Gallery, Ohama, NE - 6th
Annual Summer All Media International Online Juried Art Exhibition ‘Once
Upon A Time, (August- September 2006)
Hopper
House Art Center, Nyack, NY – International Juried Show ‘Bushwick
Series’ (August 2006)
Gallery
8, Glendale, Arizona - “Heath” 2006 Juried Art Show (August 2006)
Exit
Gallery Space, Cleveland, Ohio – International Art Competition Show
‘Once Upon A Time’ (August 2006)
Carlito’s
Gallery, NY – Art for Change Solo Show ‘A Forgotten War - North
Uganda’ (July 2006)
Art
for New Orleans, TBA, Louisiana – Group Show (July-August 2006)
Thomas
Werner Gallery, Chelsea, NY – Image 06 Award Group Show (June 2006)
Fortezza
di Girifalco, Cortona, Italy – ‘One Image Portrait’ – Group Show
(June –July 2006)
Sullivan
Room, West Village, NY – ‘Once Upon A Time’ – Solo Show (June
2006)
Naked
Duck Gallery, Williamsburg, NY – ‘North Uganda’ - Group Show, (June
2006)
Supreme
Trading Gallery, Williamsburg, NY – ‘North Uganda’ - War + Peace
Group Show, (May 2006)
Flux
Factory, Queens, NY – ‘People and Places of Bushwick’ – Works on
Paper Group Show, (May 2006)
The
Artist Network, Soho, NY – ‘People and Places of Bushwick’ - Group
Show , (May 2006)
Columbia
University, NY – ‘North Uganda’ Engineers Without Borders Auction
Exhibition (April 2006)
Columbia
University, NY –‘North Uganda’ - Humanitarian Affairs Photo
Exhibition, (April-May 2006)
UPCOMING
PUBLICATIONS: Cool’eh Magazine (USA), Vanity Fair (Italy), Style
Magazine (France), Standard Magazine (Germany)
Pool Magazine (Austria)
Coupe International Design and Image Magazine (Canada)
Still
Photographer for the music video MUS-OK (March 2006)
Still
Photographer for the short film ‘Thou shall not dream’ (May 2006)
Still
Photographer for the short film ‘The River of Copsa Mica’ (September
2006)
Member
of Positive Focus, Brooklyn Art Council, and the Center for Fine Art
Photography
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
RAI
Italian Broadcasting Network
New York, USA Jan.2005
– Jan.2006
Producer - News Branch
ABC
News New York,
USA Jan. – June 2005
News Department - Investigative Unit
United
Nations Children’s Fund
New York, USA, June - Sept. 2004
Department of Communication, Media and Broadcasting Division
United
Nations New York,
USA March
– May 2004
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Early Warning
Unit
World
Food Program Country Office
Kampala, Uganda Dec.
2002 – May. 2003
Program Manager/Consultant
Save
the Children U.S. Kampala
and Nakasongola District, Uganda June
– Nov. 2002 School
Feeding Program Manager
Magnum
Photo Paris,
France, Feb.
- June 2000 Assistant, Digital and International Department
LANGUAGES
Native
language: Italian
Fluent: English, French
Good: Spanish
Basic:
Portuguese and Arabic
ADDITIONAL
JOURNALISM
Editorial
Assistant – Journal of International Affairs (September 2003 – May
2005)
Writer
and contributor for Communiqué (SIPA biweekly newsmagazine) (September
2003 – May 2005)
Member
U.S. - Middle East Council (Columbia University student organizations):
organized conferences and events
Producer
for short film ‘The River of Copsa Mica’
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