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Mimi Mollica is an award winning photographer and editor, born in Palermo - Sicily in 1975. His photo essays deal with social issues and topics related to identity, environment, migration and macroscopic human transitions. Mimi chooses to work on long term projects which allow him to research explore and develop a subject in depth. As a result Mimi had travelled and photographed across the continents working on assignment and on his personal projects.
Mimi collaborates with a number of prestigious magazines and book publishers, including among others; The Guardian Weekend Magazine, FT Weekend Magazine, The NYT Lens blog, Newsweek Japan, Sunday Times Magazine, Internazionale, Granta Magazine, Thames & Hudson and Lars Muller.
His work has been featured on a number of exhibitions and festivals of photography across the globe such as Somerset House, London 2013, The Rencontres D’Arles 2011, London Street Photography 2011, Contributed Gallery, Berlin 2010, Jerwood Space, London 2010, Milk Gallery, New York City and Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff 2010 and European Parliament, Strasbourg 2009.
Since 2011 Mimi runs his innovative series of online and physical workshops on visual story-telling, focussing on developing the photographers ability to conceive, produce and package a photo essay of their choice.
In early 2015 Mimi founded the Photo Meet, an organisation aimed at celebrating photography through a series of events such as the Offspring Photo Meet which include portfolio reviews, lectures, networking, presentations and much more.
Mimi is Associate Lecturer at London Metropolitan University.
AWARDS
2021 Shortlisted - IMA Next Award
2021 Finalist - Italy Street Photography Festival with “In Limbo”
2021 Selected - PH Museum Mobile Photography Award book with "Moon City"
2019 Selected - PH Museum Mobile Photography Award book with "Nora There"
2018 Shortlist - Hariban Award with "Terra Nostra"
2017 Selected - Athens Photo Festival Book exhibition with "Terra Nostra"
2014 FInalist - LensCulture Portrait Award
2013 Winner - Syngenta Photography Awards 2nd prize
2012 Winner – Renaissance Photography Award - Expression Category
Finalist – Palm Springs Photo Festival Slide Show Contest
Honourable Mention – Deeper Perspective, IPA Awards
Shortlist – Terry O’Neill Award
2010 Winner (photo essay / reportage) - PDN Curator Awards.
2009 Winner - EP Guest Photographer.
Honorable Mention – Magenta Flash Forward ’09.
2008 Finalist – Sovereign European Art Prize.
2007 Winner – Creative Review, Best Photography Annual.
Finalist – The Press Photographers Year.
2005 Winner – The Observer Photographic Hodge Award 2nd Prize.
Judging Panels:
Italian Street Photography Festival 2022
RPS Documentary Photographer of the Year 2021
Sony World Photography Awards 2017 (pre-judge)
Syngenta Photography Award 2016/17
EXHIBITIONS
2022 “East London Up Close” Images Vevey
2021 “East London Up Close” Images Gibellina
2021 “Moon City” PH Museum Mobile Photography Award
2017 Segreto collective show curated by Letizia Battaglia - Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Palermo
2017 "Terra Nostra" book exhibition - Athens Photo Festival
2016 "Terra Nostra" - Promo solo show - The Printspace, London
2013 “The Syngenta Photography Awards” - Somerset House, London “Terry O’Neill Award” – The Strand Gallery, London
2012 “En Route To Dakar” – Ragusa Foto Festival, Sicily “Ten Paths To The Future” – Imago Art Gallery, London “Contemporary Street Photography” – London Photography Festival “Renaissance Photography Prize” – Mall Galleries, London
2011 “Seen/Unseen” – Mimi Mollica & George Georgiou - Street Photography festival, London “From Here On” – Rencontres D’Arles, curated by Parr, Schmid, Cheroux, Kessel, Fontcuberta
2010 “Street Photography Now” – Studio for the Arts - Berlin / Gallery Lichtblick - Cologne / Third Floor Gallery - Cardiff “This Must Be The Place” – Jerwood Visual Arts - London, curated by David Campany “PDN Curator Awards” – MILK Gallery - New York “Storie in 3 Scatti” – Camera 16 Contemporary Art - Milan “Facce da Straniero” – Museo Regionale - Torino
2009 “En Route To Dakar” – European Parliament - Strasbourg
2008 “Sovereign European Art Prize” – Somerset House - London “Photsoc” – International Festival of Social Photography -Sarcelles, Paris “Mediterraneo” – The Italian Cultural Institute, London
2006 “The Observer Hodge Photographic Award” – The Guardian Newsroom - London
2005 “Marginal Brazil” – Latin American Film Festival - London
2004 “Sometimes Words Are Too Slow” – (Forum Photographers) Proud Central Gallery - London “Hackney: worth a closer look” – Zedland House - London
2000 “Un Tocco di Kalsa” – Spasimo - Palermo, Sicily
Terra Nostra multimedia
Polka Magazine Interview on Terra Nostra
Street Photography Workshop in Warsaw 2011