Federico Borella is a freelance photojournalist and teacher at the Leica Academy. He completed a degree in Classical Literature & Meso-American Archeology at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna in 2008, and a Master in Photography Journalism at the John Kaverdash Academy of Milan. From 2009-2015, he worked as a commissioned photographer for John Hopkins University in Bologna.
For more than ten years, he has worked as a news and reportage photographer for both national and foreign magazines, agencies and publications, including Newsweek, Time Magazine, CNN, stern, National Geographic USA, Aftenposten, and Dagens Nyether, among others.