Patrizio Esposito was born in Naples in 1951. He attended the city’s state art institute and taught Drawing in a state school. He started taking photographs in 1984. From 1994 - 1996 he was responsible for the graphics for the Santarcangelo Theatre Festival (with Leo de Berardinis) and the Volterra Theatre Festival (with Roberto Bacci). He has worked with Teatri Uniti, Antonio Neiwiller, Thierry Salmon and has collaborated with the Franco Fortini Study Centre in Siena. He coordinated the publishing for L’Alfabeto urbano and was responsible for graphics for the Gamberetti Publishing House. He has also collaborated on Mario Martone’s film Una storia sahrawi. Together with the photographer Adel Altai and the Un Ponte Association, he promoted the Baghdad Photography Library, later destroyed by US bombs in 2003. Since 1999 he has been responsible, together with Fabrizia Ramondino and Fatima Mahfoud, for the project Necessità dei volti to promote the photographic archive housed in the Sahrawi War Museum (situated in the Algerian desert of Hammada) in Europe. Patrizio Esposito is also one of the organisers of the Annual Courses of Video and Digital Photography, started in April 2006 in the Palestinian refugee camp at Mar Elias in Beirut.