Mimi Mollica is an award winning photographer and editor, born in Palermo - Sicily in 1975. His photo essays deal with social issues and topics related to identity, environment, migration and macroscopic human transitions. Mimi chooses to work on long term projects which allow him to research explore and develop a subject in depth. As a result Mimi had travelled and photographed across the continents working on assignment and on his personal projects.

Mimi collaborates with a number of prestigious magazines and book publishers, including among others; The Guardian Weekend Magazine, FT Weekend Magazine, The NYT Lens blog, Newsweek Japan, Sunday Times Magazine, Internazionale, Granta Magazine, Thames & Hudson and Lars Muller.

His work has been featured on a number  of exhibitions and festivals of photography across the globe such as Somerset House, London 2013, The Rencontres D’Arles 2011, London Street Photography 2011, Contributed Gallery, Berlin 2010, Jerwood Space, London 2010, Milk Gallery, New York City and Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff 2010 and European Parliament, Strasbourg 2009.

Since 2011 Mimi runs his innovative series of online and physical workshops on visual story-telling, focussing on developing the photographers ability to conceive, produce and package a photo essay of their choice.

In early 2015 Mimi founded the Photo Meet, an organisation aimed at celebrating photography through a series of events such as the Offspring Photo Meet which include portfolio reviews, lectures, networking, presentations and much more.

Mimi is Associate Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and University of East London.

Judging Panels:

• Italian Street Photography Festival 2022

• RPS Documentary Photographer of the Year 2021

• Sony World Photography Awards 2017 (pre-judge)

• Syngenta Photography Award 2016/17
  

AWARDS

2021 Shortlisted - IMA Next Award

2021 Finalist - Italy Street Photography Festival with “In Limbo”

2021 Selected - PH Museum Mobile Photography Award book with "Moon City"

2019 Selected - PH Museum Mobile Photography Award book with "Nora There"

2018 Shortlist - Hariban Award with "Terra Nostra"

2017 Selected - Athens Photo Festival Book exhibition with "Terra Nostra"

2014 FInalist - LensCulture Portrait Award

2013 Winner - Syngenta Photography Awards 2nd prize

2012 Winner – Renaissance Photography Award - Expression Category

Finalist – Palm Springs Photo Festival Slide Show Contest

Honourable Mention – Deeper Perspective, IPA Awards

Shortlist – Terry O’Neill Award

2010 Winner (photo essay / reportage) - PDN Curator Awards.

2009 Winner - EP Guest Photographer.

Honorable Mention – Magenta Flash Forward ’09.

2008 Finalist – Sovereign European Art Prize.

2007 Winner – Creative Review, Best Photography Annual.

Finalist – The Press Photographers Year.

2005 Winner – The Observer Photographic Hodge Award 2nd Prize.

EXHIBITIONS

2022 “East London Up Close” Images Vevey

2021 “East London Up Close” Images Gibellina

2021 “Moon City” PH Museum Mobile Photography Award

2017 Segreto collective show curated by Letizia Battaglia - Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Palermo

2017 "Terra Nostra" book exhibition - Athens Photo Festival

2016 "Terra Nostra" - Promo solo show - The Printspace, London

2013 “The Syngenta Photography Awards” - Somerset House, London “Terry O’Neill Award” – The Strand Gallery, London

2012 “En Route To Dakar” – Ragusa Foto Festival, Sicily “Ten Paths To The Future” – Imago Art Gallery, London “Contemporary Street Photography” – London Photography Festival “Renaissance Photography Prize” – Mall Galleries, London

2011 “Seen/Unseen” – Mimi Mollica & George Georgiou - Street Photography festival, London “From Here On” – Rencontres D’Arles, curated by Parr, Schmid, Cheroux, Kessel, Fontcuberta

2010 “Street Photography Now” – Studio for the Arts - Berlin / Gallery Lichtblick - Cologne / Third Floor Gallery - Cardiff “This Must Be The Place” – Jerwood Visual Arts - London, curated by David Campany “PDN Curator Awards” – MILK Gallery - New York “Storie in 3 Scatti” – Camera 16 Contemporary Art - Milan “Facce da Straniero” – Museo Regionale - Torino

2009 “En Route To Dakar” – European Parliament - Strasbourg

2008 “Sovereign European Art Prize” – Somerset House - London “Photsoc” – International Festival of Social Photography -Sarcelles, Paris “Mediterraneo” – The Italian Cultural Institute, London

2006 “The Observer Hodge Photographic Award” – The Guardian Newsroom - London

2005 “Marginal Brazil” – Latin American Film Festival - London

2004 “Sometimes Words Are Too Slow” – (Forum Photographers) Proud Central Gallery - London “Hackney: worth a closer look” – Zedland House - London

2000 “Un Tocco di Kalsa” – Spasimo - Palermo, Sicily