Eduardo Castaldo was born and raised in Naples, Italy (1977); he began working as a independent photojournalist in 2006.

After covering for a year events and news related to mafia and criminality in south Italy in the end of 2007 he moved to settle, for private reasons, in Midlle East.

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For almost 8 years Eduardo Castaldo was based between Jerusalem and Cairo, covering for leading magazines worldwide news, events and several political and social issues related to Middle East.

In January 2011, he reached Cairo a few hours before the beginning of the Egyptian revolution. 
For his reportage about the egyptian Revolution he was awarded with several international prizes, including a the World Press Photo in 2012. 

In the same year he was photographer on set for director Matteo Garrone on the movie Reality 

(awarded with Grand Prix at Festival de Cannes 2012).

Main Editorial clients
TIME magazine, Internazionale, Der Spiegel, LeMonde, Newsweek, The Guardian, STERN, GQ, Vanity Fair, LeMonde magazine, Io Donna, L' Espresso, Le Courrier International, ElPais, Ruskij Reporter.

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Awards
World Press Photo 2012

SONY World Photography Award 2019

POY - Photographer of the year International 2012 - Award of excellence - Portrait serie
POY - Photographer of the year International 2012 - Award of excellence -  Multimedia award

Kuala Lumpur International Photography awards 2012 

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In 2014, after covering the first two months of the Ukranian crisis, Eduardo Castaldo decided to abandon his photojournalistic career. Since then  h began working as unit photographer on international movies and series; in these last years he has worked with some of the leading italian directors (Matteo Garrone, Saverio Costanzo, Alice Rohrwacher, Daniele Luchetti, Edoardo De Angelis) and with international productions as HBO, Fremantle, SKY, Netflix, PAramount, Warner.

In 2016 he began transforming his reportage images from Middle East into street artworks. Some of these artworks became quickly viral through social media worldwide, resulting in tens millions views on his social profiles  and making this a new path of research and expression for him.
He's currently deeply engaged in artivism, releasing many viral artworks in support of palestinian Struggle.

At the same time he's deeply working to develop his career as live action movies director. In 2022 he shooted his first short movie "GIOIA" (ITA 2022), written and directed; in less than one year the short movie was screened in over 60 festivals Worldwide (4 of these were Academy Award Qualifying Festivals), receiving over 30 prizes. He's now working on his first feature, L'Ultima Luna, that he wrote and he's now aiming to realize.

He had several personal exhibitions Wprldwide, both with photography and with Street Art.

NAPOLI, CAIRO, RAMALLAH, AMSTERDAM, SHANGAI, AMMAN, ROME, WARSAW among the others)