Delizia Flaccavento

Delizia Flaccavento is a documentary photographer and photojournalist whose work focuses on social issues and ethnic minorities. After graduating in Philosophy in her native Italy, Delizia studied Photojournalism in England, where she attended the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) Press Photography program, and in the USA, where... she earned a Master’s Degree from the School of Visual Communication, Scripps College of Communication, at Ohio University. Delizia’s projects have been published and exhibited internationally. Her work on ethnic minorities includes projects on the Italian Americans, on the Italian Australians and on the Meskhetian Turks. In Turkey, among other things, she has documented the Iraqi refugees stranded in Istanbul, the refugees trying to reach the Greek islands from the Turkish coasts, the Istanbul Leprosy Hospital and the growth of disabled sport.

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