Paola Favoino is an italian photographer based in Rome. She graduated in Sociology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” with a thesis about Albanian immigrant workers in Italy. She also specialized in migration and refugees studies with a master’s degree. In 2012 she graduated in photo reportage and photojournalism in Rome.

Since 2011 she has committed herself to a long-term documentary project concerning sworn virgins in Albania. To tell about their life’s stories she uses photography, audio recording and video.

Actually her work is to put together the various pieces to make a complete documentary about women’s condition in rural Albania.

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2017 Speaker with “L’identità negoziata delle burrneshe albanesi” for the Conference “Rifugi della società – L’accoglienza e la protezione dei diritti dei rifugiati in Italia” – Coges Don Lorenzo Milani, Mestre, Italy

2014 Curator for “Telling about ancient lands” a photographic journey and workshop held by the photographer Lina Pallotta in Calabria Italy

2013 Photographer member for the Committee of “Punctum” Contest,  Chiostro S’Anna, Ortona (CH) Italy

2013 Curator of the Exhibition “Tirana a nudo”  with over 150 photographs, for the Italian Embassy in Albania, Italian Institute of Culture –  Tirana (Albania)

2013 Creator and curator of a Reportage photography workshop at the “J. Misja” School of Art – Tirana (Albania)