Fabio Ponzio (born September 11, 1959) is an Italian documentary photographer, winner of the "Leica Oskar Barnack Award" 1998.
[2] In December 1987, Ponzio embarked on a photographic odyssey around remote parts of Central and Eastern Europe.
On June 28, 1989, he was in Kosovo to listen to Slobodan Milošević give the famous Gazimestan speech, which laid out the ideology and programme that would lead to the tragedies of the Yugoslav wars.
[7] In 2007 he was commissioned by MAXXI (Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo) in Rome to document the Italian landscape.
In 2020, East of Nowhere, a synthesis of twenty-two years of work, was published by Thames & Hudson in the UK and the United States.