” Reality, our life, everything is born, changes, dies;
Photography no, it is permanent. I do not photograph to document the reality but to escape from it;
the attempt to denude my soul and make promiscuous;
an act of rebellion , even against me. I accepted to die every day just to keep living .”
Alberto GranataÂ
Alberto Granata is a freelance photographer and mixed media artist. He was born in 1965 in Naples and grew up in Calabria, southern Italy. He studied photography at Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome. Granata held photojournalism courses at IED in Rome. He has  collaborated with UNICEF,  MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES and ANLAIDS Italia. His works have been exhibited in several galleries and are also part of private collections in Europe and the Unites States. Currently he lives and works between Milan, New York and Lanzarote.