Paolo Verzone
Climate Change, Photography, Adventure, Conservationism, Science, Space, Storytelling, Sustainability
For nearly thirty years, Paolo Verzone has been turning his lens on the world, building a body of work marked by depth, curiosity, and a sustained commitment to long-form storytelling.
Over the course of his career, he has completed several ambitious long-term projects. Seeuropeans (1994–2002) brought together a portrait series of Europeans at the beach, while the Moscow Project — revisited across four decades in 1991, 2001, 2011, and 2021 — offers an intimate, evolving chronicle of Muscovite life. From 2009 to 2014, he photographed cadets at Europe's leading military academies, using the lives of young soldiers as a lens through which to explore contemporary European identity. The resulting book was published by French publisher La Martinière in 2014.
Since 2009, Verzone has also turned his attention northward, pursuing scientific and environmental stories across the Arctic. The first chapter of this ongoing work was published in Spitzbergen, released by German publisher Mare Verlag in 2022.
His editorial work has appeared in some of the world's most respected publications, including National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Le Monde, The Independent, The Sunday Times, Wired, Vanity Fair, and Geo, among others.
Verzone has received the World Press Photo award three times — in 2000, 2009, and 2015 — and was named Picture of the Year International in 2023. His photographs are held in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Istituto Nazionale della Grafica in Rome. He has been a Canon Ambassador since 2017, and in 2024 was named a National Geographic Explorer.
