Marco Vernaschi

Biography

Marco Vernaschi is an Italian photojournalist and writer whose reporting has taken him to Guinea-Bissau, Bolivia, Madagascar, Indonesia, India, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and Belize. He is at work on his first book, West Africa’s New Achilles Heel, on the ties between drug trafficking and terrorism. He was awarded the FUJIFILM Prize for Photojournalism in 2006.

See Work

REPORTING / Winter 2010

The Cocaine Coast

By Marco Vernaschi ,  Photography by Marco Vernaschi

A frantic voice came over the radio: a blast had just destroyed Guinea-Bissau’s military headquarters. I drove toward the compound and, when I arrived, everyone was still shouting and running through the smoking ruins of the building...

REPORTING / Winter 2010

The Cocaine Coast

By Marco Vernaschi ,  Photography by Marco Vernaschi

A frantic voice came over the radio: a blast had just destroyed Guinea-Bissau’s military headquarters. I drove toward the compound and, when I arrived, everyone was still shouting and running through the smoking ruins of the building...