Joan BARDELETTI

39 years old, 2 children – French – living in Barcelona, Spain joan_bardeletti@yahoo.fr // +34 664 76 25 08

Key skills Important knowledge of the urban,

modern, fast moving Africa through long term in depth investigations the last 8 years

Fundraising, structuring a project and

managing a team of diverse expertise to tackle an issue

Creating contents as well as their

diffusion channels to match each audience with impact

Leadership, capacity to make connection between different environments (media, industry, art…) to propose new understanding or approach of issues

Capable of adjusting fast to cultural

change: has lived long in 4 countries (France, US, Spain, Italy), and done assignment in over 25 countries.

4 languages speaker: English, French

Italian fluent; Spanish good.

Awards

World Press Photo; daily life single (2010)

Getty Grant award / editorial

photography (2011) Innovation in Development Reporting

Grant from the European Journalism Center (2014)

Nikon Bourse du Talent Reportage (2012) EF Magnum Fondation Nomination

(2011) Centre National du Cinema, Grant for

Creation (2010)

Books & Exhibition “Fragile Wealth”: 128 pages, 75 images,

1.500 copies book on African Middle Classes (2011)

“Afro food… for thoughts”: editorial case

with 4 * 100 pages photography and investigation on relation to food in urban African cities (2012)

French Public Library (BNF) exhibition in 2011 and 2012. The BNF acquired prints for their collection

Visa pour l’image festival projection (2008

& 2011) Exhibitions in Roma, Madrid, London.

Experiences Since 2005 PHOTOJOURNALIST (freelance)

Long term projects • African Middle Classes (2008-2012): the biggest investigation on this 200

millions people population worldwide. 5 countries covered, over 50 persons followed. After teaming with 5 researchers, the project lead to the creation of full department dedicated to this issue. Over 20 portfolio publications worldwide.

• Small is Powerful (2013-2015): an advocacy project mixing photo and video with impact analysis to show how small african companies are fostering the continent’s development. 5 countries, 20 films, 30 impacts identified; diffusion through a webdocumentary, 9 publications in Europe, a touring exhibit in 7 universities.

• Quotidien des Capitales (2012-2014): Embedded in a local african newspaper to discover hidden african issues, and understand the african media industry. 2 countries (Gabon & Madagascar), the project grew to become a collective one with photojournalists covering 4 countries. Edition of a book, and dedicated website

Assignments • For Geo magazine, M (weekend magazine of Le Monde), Liberation, Forbes

Afrique (France); Stern (Germany); Marie Claire, Internazionale, L’Espresso (Italy); El Pais Semanal (Spain)… Usually for 8 to 20 pages reportages

• Some of the reportage : Smiling Islam in Indonesia (2015); Europe emigrating to Angola (2013); Shale oil boom in the US (2012); Black Snow : story of african migrants in Italy mixing traditional reportage and stagging without corrupting reality (2011)

2010-2014 COLLATERAL CREATIONS (co-Founder & CEO) a production agency of documentary and artistic content merging expertise and visual creativity. We help create meaning and better understanding of nuances on complex issues. We work with international organisations, public institutions, NGOs… Some projects

• Afro Food for thoughts (2011-2013): an in depth study to understand African middle class dietary habits, as well as underlying portrayals and logic. 4 countries, 4 photoournalists, 8 researchers, 4 written journalists. Lead to 200 pages research reports, diverses photo essays, an exhibit a serie of books

• Aday: working on the african continent to insure its participation in the creation of this one day worldwide photo archive for training and scientific use in the future

• Photo and video evaluation of the civil society support programme of the EU in Tunisia

Since 2011 STUDIOFLY (co-Founder) One of the french top five photo and video making company using aerial drones. 5 drones from Octo to quadcopter or Zepelin producing 4K videos with best cameras. Latest projects & technology

• Loire Valley Casttles as never before (2014-2015): Photos essay on 14 casttles, looking for view points only possible using drone to refresh the iconography of this monuments. Shooting in winter, spring, summer for a 120 pages special edition for Geo magazine France in June 2015.

• Studiofly Technology: exploring use of new technologies on drone such as 3D modeling using drone photos, thermography, very high resolutions images

Education & former experiences 2001-2004 Bank executive (France / Italy / Netherlands) Worked as an executive in a finance specialized consulting company. Was an expert in Credit risk intelectually very exciting had no passion for it and resigned when my boss proposed me to follow him after a spin off. Was following photography in parallel, and porducing my first reportage from 6 to 9 am… 2000-2001 POLITECNICO DI TORINO (Italy) Master degree in Environmental science in one of the best Italian engineering school

• 1996-2000 ECOLE CENTRALE LYON (France) Engineering college Master degree in one of the top five French engineering school 1995 Germantown High School (USA) High School degree after having spent 1 year in Germantown, small town of Wisconsin Useful links Photojournalist : http://joanbardeletti.com/en/ Collateral Creations: http://collateralcreations.com/?lang=en Studiofly : www.studiofly.fr African Middle Classes : http://joanbardeletti.com/en/projects/classes-moyennes-en-afrique/ Small is Powerful project: www.smallispowerful.fr Small is Powerful web-documentary: www.smallispowerful.org Quotidien des Capitales: www.quotidiendescapitales.com Afro Food for thoughts : http://collateralcreations.com/Afro-food-for-thought-Afrique-du?lang=en Aday: www.aday.org