Curriculum Vitae
Farinato Mario
Av. De Vibert 17 Carouge GE CH
0041 76 296 60 65
Italian
Personal Profile including career highlights, and personal information This is to present Mario Farinato, a free-lance photographer based in Milan and Geneva, who is teaching both photojournalism and studio photography at Webster University in Geneva and in Leiden Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mr. Farinato has been working professionally for several years, and I met him during the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in December 2003, where he was one of the photographers reporting on the event. Since then, he has done numerous assignments both for news organizations and for private clients.
He also won the Picture of the Day award from the prestigious Corriere della Sera in Milan for his World Wildlife Fund glacier shoot.
His first book of photography was published late 2006 in London, by Daikinibook Ltd.
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Education
Master degree in art music and theatre from university of Bologna Italy
1989
Bachelor degree in Tourism and archeology Italy Milan National School
Milan 1984
High school diploma from the Giusti Liceo Linguistico, Milan 1981
School diploma from the Lutheran College,
Naples 1977
Professional Experience October 2007
Women’s Forum
Director Quality control
Controlling the quality of the picture to publish
Publish the picture on the Women’s forum’s web site
With special attention to download session, and organizing the photographer’s team
August 07/September/October
Course photo journalism
World Economic Forum
Geneva Switzerland
June 07
Barbara Erskine Network
Update and mantainance
Webs site
Geneva Switzerland
1 May 2007
Course in Photo Journalism 2500
May, 2007
Webster Leiden Holland
30/November/2006
Andorra Summit Future of Europe
Smadja & Associates, Switzerland
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Position: Live Picture Quality Control Admin,
Web Gallery updates & Press Picture Download Center -live updates
06/October/2006
Women-s forum Dauville and Paris
Position: Live Picture Quality Control Admin,
Web Gallery updates & Press Picture Download Center -live updates
Barbara Erskine Networks
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Webster University Geneva 03/06
Position: Professor in photography
Course: Photography
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Emmevi Photo, Milan 01/05-
Up till recently Emmevi has focused mainly on supplying images and stories on domestic news, but now is looking to develop its service to cover a more international range of subjects. I am responsible for photo reporting within Switzerland, broadening the scope of material gathered and developing their photo-database.
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Dialogai – Geneva HIV and AIDS education centre 01/04-07/04
Carried out photo shoots for a number of campaigns within the city.
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Geneva 01/03-12/03
Worked with InfoSud and InterPress Service on their photo coverage in the run up to and during the UN-sponsored WSIS. I was closely involved in the development of the Terra Viva magazine, producing a photo-database in cooperation with editors in Lausanne and Rome and working with photojournalists from around the world.
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GEM, Geneva 06/01-01/03
On moving to Geneva, I worked with the editorial team at GEM, Switzerland’s largest circulation English language monthly, which focuses on the inside story within Geneva’s UN and NGO community. I developed a photo-database for the magazine that extensively covers the local region and can be used for the wide variety of news and feature stories that appear.
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Granata Press, Milan 01/01-
Photo-correspondent for Italian photo-news agency, covering major events in the Geneva region, including UN and international community. Worked on the development of their photo-database.
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NB Other photo work not already mentioned for Sipa Images – Paris, Ink Publishing - London, and the Bureau de l’integration – Geneva (references available).
Earlier Career
11/99-11/01 New York, USA Freelance
Worked on a number of freelance photographic assignments in the world of fashion and news. Including work with photographers Doron Hanock (Talent in Motion) and Calvin French (work published in GQ’s US edition and Vogue’s French edition).
11/96-11/99 Milan, Italy and New York, USA Via Torino Inc
Set-up consultancy aimed at the fashion business offering photographic, web and networking services. Responsible for design and management of website. Worked with Boss Models and the Istituto Europeo di Design and other model agencies in Milan and New York, such as Cristhian Jaques Modelling. Paid special attention to the image database.
Professional Development
Workshop with IED
Istituto Europeo di Design Milan
Ritmi Urbani
Video and photo gallery production
10/November/2001
LA SOCIETA’ DEI VIZI - UOMO TERRITORIO
Esposizione fotografica e video
Bari, Sala Murat, 19-31 dicembre 2005
Inaugurazione lunedi’ 19 dicembre 2005 ore 19.30
Con la partecipazione del fotografo internazionale Robson Oliveira
Video and photo-show with Robson Oliveira
22 dicembre 2005 – workshop teorico e pratico di fotografia a cura del fotografo Massimo CORDELLA and Farinato Mario
Radica onlus
Technical workshop on reportage and photography
Examples of website work in past five years:
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Teaching experience at Webster
Academic 2006/2007
Webster University
Digital Photo
Summer term
2006 Webster Geneva
PHOTO 4030 Topics in Studio Photography
Spring 2, 2006
Webster Geneva
PHOT 1000
Summer term 2006
Webster Geneva
PHOT 2500 Photojournalism
Term Spring 1, 2007
Webster Geneva
INDZ 2500 Photo Workshop - trip to Ticino (1 credit)
Term Summer, 2007
Webster Geneva
Photo Journalism 2500
May, 2007
Webster Leiden Holland
Professional Memberships
Awards and Honors
Photo of the day
Corriere della sera Italy Milan
Artisti ed Ambiente Premio reportage
Citta di Bari
Publications
Climate change WWF [login to view URL] Swiss 2005
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GLOBAL WARNING: The Last Chance for Change
Written by Paul Brown published by Daikinibooks London
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Andorra Summit The future of Europe
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Extra info
IT Skills I have an in depth knowledge of the following:
- External inter/intranet database management
- Linux, Macintosh and Windows platforms
- Mac office, Open office and MS office plus slideshow presentations on any OS
- Editing in PHP, HTML and super user-admin for MySQL Database
- Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator and CS2 premium edition, included Studio MX Dreamweaver, Cute FTP and other FTP transfer systems (with special attention to organizing/dividing images)
- Port Firewire, USB 2 and mobile hard disk and removable device recovery for data (images) using Firewire (Mac) and USB 1-2 (Windows)
- Linux OS (Fedora Core, Mepis, Mandrake Suse Linux.10.2 - working on Gnome and KDE interface
- Audio Editing software such as GarageBand Audio in Macintosh, video editing in Windows/Linux
Languages
Speak fluent Italian, Spanish, English and French.
References and Interests Martin Hiller
Communications Manager, WWF Global Climate Change Programme
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Simon Pummell
Media Director, Webster University
Leiden The nederland
Email
Sandra Betemps
Senior Team Coordinator, Information Technology and Telecommunications
World Economic Forum
91-93 Route de la Capite - 1223 Cologny/Geneva
Tel.: +41(0)22 869 3508 (direct), Fax.: +41 (0)22 786 2744
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World Economic Forum
Yann Zopf,
Verwaltungsdirektor,
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Barbara Erskine
Manager Director
Barbara erskine Network Geneva
Mob 0041 (0)76 202 45 28
