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All you need to know and read about me you can find it on www.marcodilauro.com and www.facebook.com/marcoandrea.dilauro

CURRENT MISSION

My mission in life is to raise awareness on the human condition and social issues

ABOUT ME

Biography:

Marco Di Lauro was born in Milan in 1970.
He takes his first photograph at the age of 14, during a vacation in Egypt. His mother teaches him how to use the Olympus OM10 and frame his first landscapes.
The attraction he feels for beauty as the truest expression of every form of life (and its reason for being) leads him to dream of a future as an art critic and to study Italian literature and art history at the State University of Milan and to the United States, where he enrolls in a course in journalism at Boston University in Massachusetts. In 1995, he returns to Italy and obtains a diploma in photography from the European Institute of Design in Milan.
His decision to be on the scene at the most explosive armed conflicts of the 21st century is arrived at gradually. Between 1990 and 1994, Marco Di Lauro prefers using his Nikon to document the social issue of abused and abandoned children in India or the poverty of the inhabitants of Peru’s Andes mountains. At the same time covers fashion shows in Milan and Paris as assistant photographer and working as a photo assistant-editor at Magnum photos in Paris.
In July of 1998, he pays his own way to the Kosovo, where he is one of the few photo-reporters on hand when the ethnic cleansing begins, just months after his arrival. His pictures from the front, selected every day from among thousands and printed every evening in a makeshift darkroom, meet with the approval of the Associated Press (AP).
After the Kosovo, Di Lauro becomes a member of the AP staff and covers the 2000 Jubilee of the Catholic Church from Rome. He moves to the city, serving as photo editor for the Rome office.
In July of 2001, he covers the G8 summit in Genoa, and in October of the same year, two weeks after the attack on Manhattan’s Twin Towers, he decides to leave on his own for Afghanistan, entering the country on foot from the north, over mountains that reach five thousand meters in altitude. For the second time in three years, he finds himself in the right place at the right time: he is one of the first Westerners able to cover the fall of Kabul from the inside, under the fire of the troops of the Northern Alliance, who take over the city on 13 November 2001. On that same day, a Taliban guerrilla fighter shoots at Di Lauro from behind during an ambush.
In September of 2002, Marco Di Lauro begins working under an exclusive contract for Getty Images, covering the Middle Eastern conflict in the Gaza Strip and then he spends almost all of 2003 and 2004 in Iraq, documenting the American invasion and the drama of the Iraqi people.
In all the stories he photographs, whether large or small, in Italy, Peru, India, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Gaza, Egypt, Kenya, Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Uganda, Chad, Sudan, Jordan, Bosnia, Spain and West Bank, Marco Di Lauro always attempts to capture the sacred side of life and its deeper meaning. Along with his wartime coverage, Marco Di Lauro is on hand for more traditional, though no less hard-fought, clashes, such as the Palio of Siena horserace and the battle of the oranges that breaks out every year in the city of Ivrea in Italy at Carnival time. He also covers religious events, such as the Easter processions in Sicily, the procession of the snake-handlers in the Town of Cocullo and the Easter Processions in Seville or the religious life in Italy and the Vatican City.

Special Expertise:
International News, Conflicts, Religion and Social Issues Reportage, Photojournalism

In the last 10 years is work appeared in all the main publications including:
Newsweek, Time Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times,Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Fortune, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, GQ, Vanity Fair, Outside Magazine, New Yorker, Bloomberg Business Week, Irish times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Live Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine, Der Spiegel, Stern, Die Zeit, Paris Match, Le Monde, Nouvel Observateur, Lexpress, Liberation, Internazionale, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Panorama, L’espresso, Elmundo, El Pais and he has been working regularly for organizations like the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNICEF, Save the Children, AMREF and the CNN.

PHILOSOPHY

Live your life with fulfillment, respect yourself and the others, be a good human being, care about the environment, about the people that are suffering, try not to be selfish.Think positive.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I participate by making my life and my house available to strangers...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had amazing experiences, meet nice and interesting people, share feelings and emotions and know how...it's great, and a lot of fun

Interests

Many....photography, music, theatre, reading, cinema, art, exhibitions, food, wine, life, bike riding , sports, sun bathing on the beach, so many that they don't even came to my mind...

• arts
• literature
• design
• fashion
• photography
• beauty
• environment
• dining
• wine
• news
• movies
• reading
• music
• cycling
• surfing
• sports
• art history
• business
• teaching
• history
• journalism
• religion
• beaches
• mountains
• massages

Music, Movies, and Books

many many many...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

so many that there is not enough space here to write them about, to be alive it's already an amazing thing!

Teach, Learn, Share

I would like to learn from all of you, and teach/share something if you like too and if you will think I have something to give...

This is the beginnings of the future CouchSurfing University, a school where everyone's a student and everyone's a teacher. Surfing isn't just be about a place to sleep. It's about exchange. From esoteric knowledge to practical skills, you have special knowledge that others will benefit from knowing. I hope that this will contribute to strengthening the quality of this wonderful community. Teach. Learn. Share. Let's do this.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chad, China, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Macedonia, Martinique, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Niger, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S., Yemen

Countries I’ve Lived In

Afghanistan, France, India, Iraq, Italy, Kosovo, Palestine, United States

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