[1] Stefano De Luigi has won the World Press Photo contest four times in different categories (1998-2007-2010-2011).
That same year he started a personal project titled Pornoland, a photographic journey on pornographic film sets, around the world.
In 2004 Pornoland became a book with a text by Martin Amis, published in 5 countries by Thames and Hudson, Knessebeck La Martinière and Contrasto.
In 2006 Stefano De Luigi embarked on the project Cinema Mundi, a World Cinema exploration on the alternative cinematographic scene far away from Hollywood dream factory, including countries such as China, Russia, Iran, Argentina, Nigeria, South Korea and India.
Cinema Mundi has also been transformed in a short 7-minute movie projected at the Locarno International Film Festival on August 4, 2007.