Russian Forces

Daily Life, Honorable Mention prize stories

1990

Russian Army, Navy and Airforce Colleges.

Commissioned by: Sygma

Photo Credit: Gianni Giansanti

Gianni Giansanti began his professional career in 1978. Approached by the Sygma agency in 1981, he documented the coup d'état in Turkey and performed assignments in Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala, Libya, Lebanon, Senegal, Poland, Greece, and Yugoslavia. In 1988, a photographic essay on the private life of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican won first prize from the World Press.