Pierpaolo Mittica (b. 1971) lives and works in Italy. He graduated from the Masters Program studing conservation, technique and history of photography at CRAF in Italy 1990. His photographs have been exhibited internationally are held in collections including the Chernobyl National Museum, Ukraine; Fotografiska Museum, Sweden and J. Paul Getty Museum, USA. His photographs have been published in l'Espresso, Internazionale, Vogue Italia, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Il Sole 24 ore, Oggi, Vanity Fair, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Spiegel, Die Zeit, Wired USA, Asian Geo, China Newsweek, and National Geographic amongst others. He is co-author with Alessandro Tesei and Michele Marcolin of two documentary films: Living Toxic, Russia (Sydonia, 2014) and Behind the Urals (Mondo in Cammino, 2015) and he co-directed with Alessandro Tesei the documentary film The Zone, Road to Chernobyl (Subwaylab 2018). Chernobyl is his eighth monograph.
