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What is a silent auction? And most importantly who needs tobe silent? No auctioneer, no paddle for no bid. Silence.Teachers and students descend onto the field by hand,bringing with them a part of themselves, of history, ofteaching. Only fleeting images, together with a single goal:integration. Integrate a new student, integrate a new ethnicity,integrate a new culture, integrate a part of oneself. With thisladies and gentlemen of the audience, the reason for whichwe are inaugurating this evening is to make us feel part of thisworld and maybe we will be able to add a place at the table.This evening, that Eleonora Accorsi has meticulouslyorganized for all of us, will serve to help a long distantneighbor to integrate into our university. So then, in silence,because the bids will not serve to satisfy our own pride ingenerosity, but rather to silence the noise that spills out on tothe streets of those who have not had the occasion to meet us.

NadiaBseiso

Nadia Bseiso was born in 1985 in Amman-Jordan toa Palestinian father and a Russian mother. She has abachelors degree in Business administration.Currently she is pursuing a two year visual arts andcommunications degree in Florence Italy.

Living RoomSOS Children’s Villagev Amman - Jordan The portrait of AustrainHermann Gmeiner, the founder of the SOS children Villages, a family based caretaking facility for abandoned children, Hangs in the living room of one of the SOShouses. Every house has an assigned mother that looks after around 10 children.80 children have lived in this house since its foundation.

Anticipation SOS Children’s Village Amman - Jordan Islam 12 ( in arabictranslates into Peace ) (left) sits in her living room, while Hanan 6 (Compassion)happily plays around her sisters, and Sabreen 10 ( Patience ) covers her face inthe corner. The shadow of their mother Fatmeh 57 ( name derived from the rootNurse ) watches in the background.

Living RoomSOS Children’s Villagev Amman - Jordan

Anticipation SOS Children’s Village Amman - Jordan

SimonePierotti

Born in 1980, he graduates in 2001 in Visual Studies at AccademiaInternazionale dell’Imagine (L’Aquila) and in 2006 in Anthropolgy(Universtia’ degli Studi di Siena). After the One Year CertificateProgram in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography atInternational Center of Photography in New York he works as firstassistant for Chris Anderson (Magnum Photos), Donna Ferrato andStanley Greene. Since 2007 he works on personal projects asfreelance photographer and writer. He teaches photojournalism atFlorence University of Arts (Firenze).

Somalian refugee living in a squat in Via Luca Giordano. Florence, Italy, April 2009

Somalian refugee living in a shelter. Florence, Italy. March 2009

JerryLee Ingram

Fashion photographer and native American Jerry Lee Ingram’swork experience includes well-known fashion houses. He teachesPhotography and Fashion at the Florence University of the Arts. AMacMurray graduate, Ingram studied art and at Kent StateUniversity and Lorenzo dei Medici Art institute, both in Florence.Ingram has earned many wards in photography, exhibits frequentlyand in 2009, was awarded the prestigious Italian creativity honorDietro La Bellezza

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Paul CaryGoldberg

Thee photographs were taken in a small pasticceria called Caffe

Sicilia on the west end of Main Street in Gloucester, MA USA.

Though the caffe is tiny in size it is robust with vita. It has been my

privilege and pleasure to get to know and document some of the

culture and many of the people of this community.

Massimo Ballarin at Caffe Sicilia in Gloucester, MA USA

Padre Pio and Confetti at Caffe Sicilia in Gloucester, MA USA

MatteoBrogi

Matteo Brogi is a professional photographer, writer, journalist andartist living in Florence, Italy. He started his career as an assistantof different photojournalists and specialized himself at the ICP ofNew York. He mostly covers corporate reports and all editorialassignments for Italian and foreign magazines on assignment,preferably working on location. He usually deals with portraiture,travel reportage, lifestyle, sport and food & wine. Matteo’s artisticproduction is quite recent and mixes his classic style with animportant post-production action. In 2009-2010 he worked on 3art projects and had exhibition in Italy. The latest, recentlydisplayed at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, is about Books and theirreaders, a sort of a psychological portrait of 12 famous people fromItaly and UK.

La bicicletta e la Mercedes New York (USA), 2006

Spazi contesi, Betlemme (West Bank), 2009

PileeBlueMansfield

I believe in freedom and nature. I admire all of those who believe in

themselves and understand the importance of living in a world with

peace, love and respect for each other. Through my photography I

can express and capture moments, tell stories and always create

a fascinating record for history.

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DavidAndré Weiss

A native American, David Weiss likes to jokingly call himself an “ex-europeo” with deep Italian roots thanks to his mother.  This dualityof citizenship has strongly influenced his photographic vision andpractice. As Fred Ritchen wrote, “Photography too often confirmspreconceptions and distances the reader from more nuancedrealities. The people in the frame are often depicted as too foreign,too exotic, or simply too different to be easily understood”.It is these distances that David tries to diminish by looking fornuances within his subjects weather they are images of people orjust his surrounding. Sometimes they are obvious sometimes not.David graduated from the University of Chicago in Art History andin 1987 from the International Center of Photography. He has beenrecognized internationally for his portraits of New York Cityemployees at work on cities bridges, ferries and infrastructure whileemployed as a city agency photographer in New York.He has covered major international events such as the first attempton the World Trade Center and the massacre in Bali. He  has beenextensively published internationally including for Time Life Inc. Asa freelance photographer he has worked for NGO’s, the UnitedNations, as well as a set photographer for many internationalfeature films. He is currently the Department Chair for DIVA here inFlorence, Italy.

The Catholic Worker

Beauty Salon, Kingston Town

JacopoSantini

Jacopo Santini, born in Florence in 1967, after humanities studies and a laureain Law taken in 1993, has been involved in photographic projects since 1994,most of them consisting in a documentation of unseen areas of his birthplaceand of Tuscany. His field consists in the attempt of saving the memory of placesjust before their renovation or death and the drawing of an alternative visual mapof the town and of other places. To this area of his work belong the project aboutthe former convent and prison called “Le Murate”, realized in 2001 just beforethey were transformed in a residential structure, and, above all, his seeminglyendless work, started in 2002, into and about the Albergo Popolare, a shelter forhomeless people in the San Frediano Quarter, both of the projects published.Inspired by the same interest he is at present involved in three projects: adocumentation of the “Volterrana”, an ancient road (originally traced by theEtruscans) which connects Volterra to the coast; a work about the ancient townof Evora in Alentejo region, Portugal and specifically an old factory that, afterthe current restoration, will become the seat of the local Art faculty; a projectabout Iowa started in May 2009. During August 2010 he has started a reportageconcerning the Coptic Community in Cairo and the south of Egypt and, sinceJuly 2010 a long lasting documentation of La Pergola Theatre Apart fromteaching (since 2004 he has been teaching as a photography instructor at Saci– Studio Art Centers International, since 2007 at CEA, and since Fall 2010 atFUA, all of them in Florence) he has also worked and still works as anarchaeological photographer and holds workshops, often related to his visualanalysis of changing or hidden places, like “Open spaces, closed spaces, heldin July 2006 with students from the Academy of Art of Belgrad.His deep passionfor literature and music (classical and jazz), but also for other, less academicaspects of a country’s culture often affect his choices and the content of hiscourses, since it is his belief that photography, particularly in a phase of profoundchange (the passage from traditional support to digital) cannot be consciouslyused, practised, studied regardless a 360° care for the other media and art forms.

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CosimoBargellini

Cosimo set his first B&W darkroom at the age of 11, in a smallcloset of his family apartment. This has been the beginning of hislong relationship with the photographic medium. He started hisprofessional career as an assistant of Richard Scott in Londonwhen he was 22 and then of Roberto Bastianoni and VeritaMonselles at 24. He started his own studio in 1988. Cosimo hasbeen a photo instructor for Italian and International institutions formore than 20 years. As a professional he worked for the fashionindustry, for architecture, geographic and illustrated magazines, forItalian and International publishers, and in the advertising industry.He is also a renowned product and food photographer as well asan architectural photographer. He is actually the PalazziInternational Relations Director and during his frequent trips aroundthe world for his job, he loves to take candid pictures with a tinydigital point & shoot camera, focusing mainly on cultural diversitiesand people behaviors, the 2 works on display are belonging to hislast trips in Brazil and China, Fall 2010.Some of his personal worksare in the Permanent Collection for Italian Photography at TheAccademia Carrara in Bergamo.He contributed with hisphotographs to illustrate more than 45 books.

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RoyPassalacqua

My name is Roy Passalacqua. I have found a passion in

photography. Photography keeps me gorunded, and if I did not

have my camera, I would lose my mind. It is hard to be original in

this field, so I am constantly pushing myself to go beyond what

others have done, and at the same time one upping my own work.

I've come a long way from Cleveland, Ohio, and I plan to keep going.

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Acknowledgements Gabriella GanugiDavid WeissMarina BuccaGiulio VinciElena PaolucciJamira ManciniElfrida CurriNadia BseisoPilee Blue MansfieldRoy PassalacquaCosimo Bargellini

Matteo BrogiPaul Cary GoldbergJerry Lee IngramSImone PierottiJacopo SantiniLaura De SantisMatt WhiteSara JanniAlberto SImoncioni

...and to all the PALAZZI staff

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