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Lovells Italian photo exhibition raises funds for childrens charity

The Lovells Touch initiative, launched to contribute to the United Nations Millennium Development Programme goals, has raised more than €150,000 for non-for-profit organizations operating to safeguard and promote children’s rights. UN surveys estimate that 30,000 children die every day for preventable illnesses and of causes directly related to poverty not only in Third World countries. Almost 3.5 millions children in the UK and the US, more than a third of the children in Washington DC, are living under the poverty threshold.

About the photographers   Filippo Bianchi, photographer and graphic designer, lives in Milan and Paris. He has been part of the Azibul photography archives in Italy and Ask Image in France. He has published photographic reportages in the weekly supplement of La Stampa “Lo Specchio” and Alias of Il Manifesto. Black and white photographs exhibited for Lovells Touch have been taken in journeys across Mozambique.   Laura Laureti, a former Lovells lawyer, chose to start a full-time career in photography last year.  She has already won several awards. Her works have been shown in October 2006 in “dalla Terra” exhibition organized by the Lazio Regional Administration and F.A.O. during the International Food Day, and in a personal exhibition in Spoleto. Black and white photographs exhibited for Lovells Touch have been taken in Bengo, rural province of Angola, where Laura lived recently for one month hosted by an NGO doing humanitarian work.   Francesco Minà, lawyer at Lovells, combines passion for travel and photography. Photographs exhibited for Lovells Touch have been taken during a trip across Cuba.