Franceso Zizola is an acclaimed Italian photojournalist, having won major awards, including World Press Photo of the Year in 1997, along with more than a dozen awards from the World Press Photo Foundation. His latest book Diaries is a journey through some of his most celebrated images over a 40-year career.  But the lifelong Roman also spoke with Paris Calling about his worries about the current state of photography – and our societies as a whole – in the era of the algorithm. 

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