Giacomo Palermo graduated in "Science and Technologies of Communication" from the University of Rome La Sapienza and is a photojournalist, visual communicator and unconventional blogger working on sociological, humanitarian and environmental ethical research in the Mediterranean Area and mainly in Sicily.
Contributor for Italian and international multimedia media publishers such as l'Osservatore Romano, Getty Images Inc., Touring Club Italia, Majority World CIC - Global - Photo Agency, The MEGA Agency - LLC, GEDI S.p.a. Editorial Group, La Repubblica, National Geographic Italia, La Sicilia, La Discussione, Aleteia.org, America Oggi, La Voce di New York, Splash News, CrossInMedia Foundation, Agenzia Fotogramma, IPA Photo Agency and others.
He has received diplomatic awards such as the "Piersanti Mattarella Award" the Ecu Film Fest's "White Palm" for "Ecumenical Cinema for Interreligious Dialogue", the Jury Prize for photography of Agrigento's Almond Tree in Bloom (category "Tourism in the World") 33° INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST ASFA - FIAP REPUBBLICA DI SAN MARINO and that of the Italian Federation of Photographic Associations dedicated to Tina Modotti.
He was selected by Magnum Photos in "The Magnum Connect Program".
With a scholarship from the Italy - USA Foundation (partner the United Nations), he obtained a diplomatic master's degree in "Leadership for International Relations and Made in Italy".
He exhibited in the "International Center of Photography" in Palermo founded by Letizia Battaglia.