Andrea Fucà

Andrea Fucà

Bio

Andrea Fucà was born in Palermo, on 20 November 1991, where he lived until 2013 when he completed his bachelor’s degree in Energy Engineering.
Since 2013 he has been living in Turin where he earned a Master’s degree in Nuclear and Energy Engineering.

His journey into photography and photojournalism began in Palermo as a self-taught photographer, where he started to document the neighborhoods of the historic city center. Unlike other cites, Palermo's historic center is not only elegant but also rich in working-class districts and historical markets.
In November 2021, he decided to take his first photography course attending in a three-day workshop in Milan organized by Leica Akademie Italia, with Valerio Bispuri as the instructor. In February 2022, following the workshop experience, he decided to enroll in Valerio Bispuri's long-term reportage and storytelling school, and he has been his student since then.
From that moment on, he began his long-term reportage project to tell the story of Down syndrome. Initially, the project focused on Down syndrome in Italy, but in July of last year he extend the project border going to Cuba, Morocco and Madagascar.

Stories

Down World