Selene Magnolia Gatti is an Italian award-winning visual journalist based in Berlin and Northern Italy.

Her work spans questions of environmental and social justice, food production, migration, human rights, identity, and contemporary political issues. Since 2023 she is represented by Panos Pictures photo agency. With a background as emergency nurse, volunteer medical personnel in humanitarian crises, and academically qualified linguist, she has worked for a number of international publications and collaborates with several non-profits.

Some of Selene's photographic work on intensive food production is featured in the book 'Hidden - Animals in the Anthropocene', awarded ‘Photography Book of the Year’ by POY (2021). Her long-term project Zor was exhibited at Visa Pour L’Image 2022. In 2023, she was selected as the Senior Fellow at WeAnimals Media agency. 

Basic information

Name
Selene Magnolia Gatti
Title
Photographer
Expertise
environmental and social justice, food production, migration, human rights, identity, politics
Country
Germany
City
Berlin
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Supported projects

Living Under the Veiled Grasp of Factory Farming in Europe

  • Agriculture
  • Environment

PENFOUL - 142 million pigs, 76 million bovine heads, 62 million sheep, and 12 million goats: the invisible yearly population of farmed animals that live and die on the production line in Europe. Industrial livestock farming across Europe is causing widespread environmental degradation. People living in close proximity to factory farms experience serious health consequences.

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