Current TV
A series of miscellaneous images taken throughout my time at Current TV (2007-2011) and during the filming of Vanguard episodes all across the world.
Nigeria
Backstage shots taken during the filming of the promotional video An Introduction to the Oxford Policy Management Nigerian Results-Based Financing Fellowship (Abuja, 2018).
Casa do Menor, Brazil
Backstage shots from my documentary “Casa do Menor: The Other Face of Brazil”, which focused on the protests on the streets of Brazil in the summer of 2013. The documentary (aired on the Discovery Networks) featured the stories of abused and marginalized youth in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza. It was shot with the support of the Brazilian NGO Casa do Menor, which cares for 2000 children per year, many of whom suffer from drug addiction and are coerced into prostitution.
Calcutta, India
Images taken during the filming of my documentary about child trafficking and underage prostitution in Calcutta, India, telling the stories of countryside children kidnapped from or sold by their parents to the red light districts of the city.
Opening Night - The New Faces of Africa
Photographic press coverage from the opening night of my exhibition “The New Faces of Africa”, which ran at the Boscolo Hotel in Milan form September to November, 2015.
“PRESS RELEASE: A unique journey that lasted five months, in the heart of Africa; a report on the trail of a proactive, vital and constantly evolving continent, able to look to the future; a photographer with a keen eye that captures the essence of the men, women and children of those lands and highlights their pride and desire to be leaders of a free and independent tomorrow.
Photographer and video reporter that has dedicated his profession to international investigative pieces and reports, Davide Scalenghe exhibits a selection of 20 photographs shot during the trip that has taken him to Morocco, Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, alongside Steve McCurry. The occasion was that of the documentary and photographic project that accompanied the shooting of the Lavazza calendar 2015 “The Earth Defenders” by the American photographer, a collaboration between Lavazza and Slow Food, and that Scalenghe turned into a film broadcast by Discover’s Real Time.
The main themes of Expo 2015 are those of the exhibition “The New Faces of Africa”: food and nutrition, basic human need, but also symbol of freedom where rural production is the sector that employs entire villages and that puts African men and women at the center of their own destiny.
Many such communities have grown considerably in recent years and have today achieved full autonomy: farmers are able to sell their product directly, without the intervention of intermediaries, increasing the direct gain for the maintenance of their household.
