Silvia Boarini moved to London from Italy in 1995. After completing a degree in Cultural Studies and Linguistics, she worked in video and film productions in New York and Rome. She returned to London to complete a PgDip in photojournalism at the London College of Communications and has been working as a freelance photojournalist since 2005.

Her work has appeared in Narcomafie (Italy), Evening Standard, Sunday Mirror, Royal Photographic Society Journal, Label (Italy), British Journal of Photography, The Journalist, Daily Telegraph, D di Repubblica ...

Her series Land of the Prickly Pears was shortlisted for the 'Tom Webster Award for Photojournalism' and commended at the 'International Picture Awards' in the student essay category. The 'Rag and Bone Man' essay was featured on BBC London.

Exhibitions:
2008 - Singapore International Photography Festival, with the series 'Veterans'
2008 - Claire de Rouen Bookshop, London - 'The looking glass' a group summer show
2007 - Cotton's Centre, London Independent Photography group exhibition
2007 - Sadler's Wells, London - 100 years of the NUJ
2006 - County Hall, Trafalgar Square and Finsbury Park - part of Rise, London United festival
2006 - Chalk Farm Library, London: The last Rag and Bone Man, a photo-essay
2004 - Tom Blau Gallery,London - Ian Parry Scholarship group exhibition
2004 - London College of Printing: PG Dip Photojournalism end of year exhibition

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