Gianluca Cecere is an Italian photojournalist based in Naples, working mainly in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Through long-term documentary projects and editorial assignments, he follows religious minorities and communities living through political and social upheaval, with a focus on how people sustain identity and belonging amid change.
He graduated in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II and spent ten years working in banking. He decided to change direction in late 2005 and began his career in photojournalism in 2006.
His work has covered conflict and its aftermath, from the Kosovo War to the Israeli–Palestinian border and Ukraine, as well as public health emergencies such as the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
His approach places individual lives at the centre of larger stories, looking beyond the defining events of a place to the ways people live with their consequences.