Ronald Pizzoferrato Venezuela, 1988

Ronald, quien procede de un hogar de emigrantes y, a su vez, él mismo se ha desplazado permanentemente, decide atravesar estas prácticas de deconstrucción social para entender sus (y nuestras) actuales circunstancias. En ese afán exploratorio y en un intento por visibilizar la situación de riesgo en la que sobreviven los caminantes, emprende un intenso itinerario de recorridos que se inicia en las fronteras de Cúcuta (2018-2020), para avanzar consecutivamente a las de Maicao (2020), Ciudad Juárez (2022-2023) y la selva del Darién (2022). Lejos de desarrollar un reportaje foto documental —instrumentalizando al individuo como noticia—, su propuesta formaliza un ejercicio autoral, fundamentado en los procesos y en una poderosa narrativa, resultante en la potencialidad de la imagen fotográfica y una visión crítica, entendida desde la amplia perspectiva geopolítica.

Su trabajo ha sido expuesto en Museos en Suiza y Venezuela, y publicado en colaboracion con SRF, Reposteros sin Fronteras y varias revistas de renombre. 

Ronald Pizzoferrato is a Venezuelan-Italian visual artist and photographer, born (*1988) and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, since 2014 based in Bern, Switzerland.

The work of Ronald  (aka Malandrophotos), is the result of long-term field studies and ethnographic research of participatory scope, dedicated to documenting social phenomena and intrinsic conflicts, both in the urban context and those sustained in highly vulnerable communities. As an artist he appropriates diverse disciplines to conceive a narrative of his own, operating globally in comprehensive multimedia projects, related to notions of identity, migration and social development.

Ronald, who comes from a home of migrants and, in turn, has himself been permanently displaced, decides to go through these practices of social deconstruction to understand his (and our) current circumstances. In this exploratory eagerness and in an attempt to make visible the situation of risk in which the travelers survive, he undertakes an intense itinerary of journeys that begins at the borders of Cúcuta (2018-2020), to advance consecutively to those of Maicao (2020), Ciudad Juárez (2022-2023) and the jungle of Darién (2022). Far from developing a photo-documentary reportage -instrumentalizing the individual as news-, his proposal formalizes an authorial exercise, based on processes and a powerful narrative, resulting in the potential of the photographic image and a critical vision, understood from a broad geopolitical perspective.

His works have been exhibited in art museums in Switzerland and Venezuela and published in collaboration with SRF, Reporters Without Borders and various renowned magazines.