Mimi Mollica (born 1975) is an Italian photographer, based in London. His work concerns "social issues and topics related to identity, environment, migration and macroscopic human transitions.""Profile". Mimi Mollica. Accessed 16 February 2017

Mollica creates self assigned series—his book Terra Nostra (2017) is about the permanent scars left behind by the Sicilian Mafia—and works on documentary and photojournalism commissions for magazines and NGOs, and mentoring photographers. His work has also been shown in various group exhibitions and been included in survey publications on street photography.

Life and work Mollica was born and raised in Palermo, Sicily and is based in London. He began working in photography as an assistant to architectural photographer Hélène Binet. He works professionally on documentary and photojournalism commissions for magazines and NGOs. In 2015 he founded Photo Meet in London, a mentoring service for photographers.

Mollica also creates self assigned series. Over four months in 2007 and 2008 in Senegal, he photographed during the building of a road from Dakar to the new city of Diamniadio, for his series En route to Dakar. Work from this series was praised as "excellent photography" by Anita Sethi in The Independent. From 2009 he spent seven years working on his book about the permanent scars left behind by the Sicilian Mafia, Terra Nostra (2017). The book was well received by critics—Gerry Badger said its photographs "are eloquent and poetic, and in an era where so much photography is trite and shallow, dense enough to feed both mind and eye"; and Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said "it is a work that repays close attention [...] a deft merging of the quotidian and the unsettling".

Publications Publications by Mollica

En route to Dakar. Self-published via Blurb, 2010.En route to Dakar is described here within Blurb.com. Terra Nostra. Stockport, England: Dewi Lewis, 2017. . With an introduction by and an afterword by Sean O'Hagan.Terra Nostra is described here within the Dewi Lewis website.

Publication paired with others Castelbuono: la città gentile: indagine per immagini e parole su una città e i suoi abitanti. Palermo: Passaggio, 2009. With Roberto Alajmo. . Italian.

Publications with contributions by Mollica Granta: Lost and Found. Issue 105. London: Granta, 2009. . 255 pages. Edited by Alex Clark. Includes "The road," photographs from Mollica's series En route to Dakar and text by Elena Baglioni. Flash Forward: Emerging photographers from Canada, the United Kingdom & the United States: 2009. Toronto: The Magenta Foundation, 2009. . Street Photography Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. (hardback). London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. (paperback). Edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren. London Street Photography: 1860–2010. London: Museum of London; Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2011. . Selected from the Museum of London collection by Mike Seaborne and Anna Sparham. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Museum. In the Life of Cities. Zurich: Lars Müller, 2012. Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi. . Includes "En route to Dakar," eight photographs by Mollica. Street = Calle. C Photo, Vol. 9. London; Madrid, Spain; Gilly, Switzerland: Ivorypress, 2014. . 299 pages. Edited by Elena Ochoa Foster. Text in English and Spanish. The World Atlas of Street Photography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. . Edited by Jackie Higgins. With a foreword by Max Kozloff. Photographers' Sketchbooks. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. . Edited by Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formhals.

Awards 2005: Second prize, The Observer Photographic Hodge Award.Tom Templeton, "Shutter release", The Observer, 6 November 2005. For a story on the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 London bombings. 2009: Winner, European Parliament Guest Photographer."Mimi Mollica's migrant in Dakar scoops best photo contest", European Parliament, 22 June 2009. 2012: Finalist, Palm Springs Photo Festival Slide Show Contest, CA. 2012: Winner, Renaissance Photography Award, Expression Category, for Terra Nostra."2012 Winners", within "Prizes", Renaissance Photography, as archived by the Wayback Machine on 15 June 2013. 2013: Shortlist, Terry O'Neill TAG Award 2012, for Terra Nostra.Spectrum: Concrete Ideas: Entrants for the Terry O'Neill Awards, Emma Broomfield, The Sunday Times Magazine, 13 January 2013 2013: Second prize, Syngenta Photography Award."Winners 2013: Mimi Mollica: Professional Commission Second Prize Winner", Syngenta Photography Award."Mimi Mollica: Professional commission second prize winner", Syngenta Photography Award. For his series En route to Dakar. Mollica won funding for a photography project. 2014: Finalist, LensCulture Portrait Award, for a photograph from Terra Nostra.

Group exhibitions 2010: This Must be the Place, Jerwood Space, London, November–December 2010. With photographs by Mollica, David Campany, Camille Fallet, Xavier Ribas, Eva Stenram, Lillian Wilkie, and Tereza Zelenkova. 2010: Street Photography Now, Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, October–November 2010, and toured to Contributed Studio for the Arts, Berlin, December 2010 – January 2011; Museum of Printing, Historical Museum of Warsaw, Warsaw, November 2011 – January 2012. Photographs from the book Street Photography Now (2011) by Mollica and others 2010: This Must Be the Place, Jerwood Space, London, November – December 2010. With work by Tereza Zelenkova, Camille Fallet, Xavier Ribas, Walker Evans, Eva Stenram, Lillian Wilkie and Mollica. Curated by David Campany. 2013: Rural–Urban: The Syngenta Photography Award Exhibition, Somerset House, London, May 2013. 2014: Terry O’Neill Awards 2013, The Strand Gallery, London, January 2014.

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Sicilian connection: How Mimi Mollica captured the mafia – photographs in The Guardian