Andrea Rocchelli

On 12 July 2019 the Court of Assize of the Tribunal of Pavia has sentenced Markiv to 24 years of detention in prison in concurs of guilt with the Ukrainian state, the public prosecutor had asked for Markiv a 17 years sentence.

Rocchelli's death was investigated by the Italian authorities. An international rogatory to their Ukrainan counterpart was requested, but this action did not achieve any significant result. Nevertheless, further inquiries were carried out by the Italian prosecutor in collaboration with the investigative unit of the Carabinieri Special Operations Group. In July 2017 these inquiries led the Italian authorities to arrest Vitalii Markiv, an Italian citizen from Ukraine, a former member of one of National Guard units.

2015 June 5– 5 July. Stories, retrospective curated by Cesura and Lucia Rocchelli; Palazzo del Broletto, Pavia, IT.

2015 September 30– 15 November. Stories, retrospective curated by Cesura and 3/3; Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome, IT. 2017.

2015 April 25 . World Press Photo, 2nd Prize of the section Portraits, Stories to the photowork Russian Interiors, Amsterdam, NL.

2015 June. OSCE dedicated a commemorative plate to Andy Rocchelli as a tribute to those fallen for OSCE values in areas of conflict, Parliament, Rome, IT.

Rocchelli was killed in Andriivka, Ukraine, near Sloviansk, on 24 May 2014 while reporting on the war in Donbass. He was travelling with the human rights activist and interpreter Andrei Mironov (also died in the attack), a French photo reporter, and a local driver. When they stopped to take some pictures near a railway line, the group was hit by mortar fire. The Italian authorities described the attack that killed both Mironov and Rocchelli as murder.

2014 September 4– 9 Ukraina Revolution, curated by Cesura and Ilaria Alpi Association; Palazzo Graziani, San Marino, SM.

2014 September 20– 2 November. Evidence, retrospective curated by photographer Gianluca Grossi and Cesura; Spazio Reale, Monte Carasso, Bellinzona, CH.

Rocchelli's portrait of the feminine universe in the post-soviet era, Russian Interiors has been published in late 2014. It has been positively reviewed by the international critique throughout the last years, e.g. it has been listed among the best 10 photobooks of 2014 by Martin Parr on the British Journal of Photography.

2014 June 13. Photo prize Ponchielli 2014 dedicated to Andy Rocchelli, Milan, IT.

2014 September 7. Kamerton Prize to independent journalism conferred to Andy Rocchelli and Andrey Mironov. The prize is named after the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Moscow, RU.

2014 December. San Siro civic award assigned by the municipality of Pavia, IT.

3–7 May . From the last front: the Ucraine of Rocchelli and Mironov, curated by Leonardo Brogioni; The Triennale Design Museum, Milan, IT. The exhibition was part of the International Human Rights Festival of Milan. 2017.

23 November.– 2018 January 14 Andy Rocchelli: Letzte Front, curated by Miklos Klaus Rosza in collaboration with COOPI; Photobastei, Zurich, CH.

Rocchelli graduated in 2007 at the Polytechnic University of Milan where he was awarded a master's degree in Communications Design. Subsequently, he was trained by Magnum Photos photographer Alex Majoli. In 2008, with other four photographers, he founded Cesura, a photographic collective aiming to produce independent projects.

Andrea Rocchelli (27 September 1983 – 24 May 2014) was an Italian freelance photojournalist. He founded the independent photographers collective Cesura.