Elena Givone was born in Turin , she lives and works between Turin and Sri Lanka (where she’s opening a school of photography).
After studies in International an diplomatic science, she study photography at the IED of Turin and at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2006 she is awarded with the “Attenzione Nuovo Talento Fotografico Fnac” prize, thanks to the project: “PAZI MINE- Sarajevo 2006”.
In 2008, thanks to the prize “Moovin’ Up”, sponsored by GAI (Young Italian Artists), she moved in Brazil, where she shows her works in a personal exhibition at Contemporary Art Museum of Florianopolis – Santa Catarina, in Brazil.
On this occasion she carries out a few personal projects, such as “Flying Away”. Here she begins teaching customs and tecniques of photography with the workshop “Photography as Art” to a group of university students and young people from an indigenous tribe. She joined Contrasto in 2008.
