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Name: Valeria Mongelli Photography
Address: Bangkok, TH

Valeria Mongelli Photography

I am an independent photojournalist, photographer, and journalist. I am currently based in Bangkok. I am currently based in Brussels, Belgium.

I am a freelance photojournalist, journalist, and photographer. I work as a stringer for Bloomberg, AFP, and AP and am a member of Hans Lucas photo agency. My work appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and El País among others. In 2021, two of my photos have been nominated by AP for the Pulitzer Prize, AP and Paris Match selected one of my photos among the best 100 o

f the year and I was a finalist in the Siena International Photo Awards. Among my corporate clients are the International Monetary Fund (IMF), BNP Paribas, and Groupe L'Oréal. In my documentary work, I focus on migration and gender inequality. My photographic research is centered on women’s lives as a political act that subverts patriarchal society. I speak and write fluent English, French, Spanish, and Italian (native).

09/08/2026

Wrapping up three days of somber coverage — Family members of a school shooting victim react at the school in Bang Kruai district, Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, on August 7, 2026.

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08/08/2026

Family members of a teacher killed in a deadly shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School, react as they receive the body at Police General Hospital, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 8, 2026.
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Sali Wanich, mother of a teacher killed in a deadly shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School, waits to receive the body at Police General Hospital, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 8, 2026.

Sali Wanich, mother of a teacher killed in a deadly shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School, waits to receive the body at Police General Hospital, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 8, 2026.

A Buddhist monk leads as workers move a coffin with the body of a victim killed in a deadly shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School, at Police General Hospital, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 8, 2026.

A Buddhist monk leads as workers move a coffin with the body of a victim killed in a deadly shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School, at Police General Hospital, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 8, 2026.

A family member of a teacher killed in a deadly shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School, reacts as the body is received at Police General Hospital, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 8, 2026.

Family members of a teacher killed in a deadly shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School, react as they receive the body at Police General Hospital, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 8, 2026.

05/08/2026

Demonstrators from the Southern Economic Corridor (SEC) Watch Network stage a die-in in front of police officers during a protest outside Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 4, 2026.

The group resumed demonstrations, accusing the government of reneging on a June 30 agreement to halt the proposed Land Bridge project, withdraw the SEC Bill, and establish a committee to prepare a comprehensive development plan for southern Thailand. Protesters argue that the Land Bridge project poses significant environmental risks, threatens local communities and ecosystems, and could have long-term impacts on southern Thailand. They also claim the government has failed to fulfill key commitments outlined in the agreement and are calling on authorities to honor the memorandum signed following an earlier round of demonstrations.

29/07/2026

From the archive. Mawdaung, Tanintharyi, Myanmar. January 2026.

03/07/2026

An abusive husband drove 20-year-old Noor into the hands of human traffickers, who arranged her passage on a rickety boat carrying Rohingya Muslims south on a perilous journey.

Her mother received a final call just before she boarded. Noor said she would “rather die in the middle of the sea than suffer at her husband’s hands,” Dolu recalls. She asked her mother to pray for her.

That was the last time Dolu heard from her daughter. She fears the boat sank.

With Lorcan Lovett, Htet Aung, Ro Min Swe and Ro Zeen Kyi, we spoke to survivors, relatives of the missing and dead, and others in the Rohingya refugee camps about what's behind the soaring number of Rohingya boarding crammed fishing trawlers with rusty hulls, failing engines and often violent traffickers.

You can read the story here: https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/she-had-lost-all-hope-here-increasing-numbers-of-rohingya-refugees-risk-dangerous-sea-crossings/

And watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/datKAuOZwqM?si=NQtte08IprE3E5aD

Words by Lorcan Lovett
My photos/video footage

28/06/2026

From the archive: A member of Hêzên Antî Teror (Anti Terror Forces - HAT) stands guard on the sidelines of a meeting between Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) General Commander Mazloum Abdi and the Council of Elders, which included representatives from Kurdish, Arab, and other tribes, in Hasakah, Northeast Syria, February 17, 2026.
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31/05/2026

The Rohingya Muslims describe themselves as kosu patar pani – a rain droplet adrift on a taro leaf. For nearly a million people, tightly packed into this sprawling labyrinth of camps, there is nowhere to go.

For several weeks in late 2017, the Myanmar military attacked and burned to the ground hundreds of Rohingya villages, massacring women, men, and children, and committing rapes.

At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed that month, according to Médecins Sans Frontières. About 700,000 crossed into Bangladesh; others had fled earlier persecution, and more continue to arrive.

Almost a decade on, the Rohingya remain in limbo, denied citizenship on both sides of the border.

Words by
My photos

22/05/2026

A resistance fighter walks on the debris of a monastery hit by regime airstrikes in Tanintharyi Region’s Mawdaung town on January 8, 2026.

On Wednesday, May 20, Myanmar military claimed to have recaptured the town on the Thai border, expanding the frontier trade crossings it claims to control in the grinding civil war, reported AFP.

and I visited Mawdaung in January, after resistance forces captured it in November. It was the first major town to fall to anti-junta forces in Tanintharyi Region, and one of their few territorial gains across the country last year.

These pictures were published in in February.

18/05/2026

As he empties fragments of his thigh bone from a pot into his palm, Mohammed Yasin explains the symbolism of the four shards. At first, they were a keepsake from the doctor who operated on him, something for his children in case the bullet killed him. Then they became proof of the Myanmar military’s genocidal campaign that drove them here, to the world’s largest refugee settlement in south-east Bangladesh, nine years ago.

“Every day I worry about kidnapping,” he says. “They come in black cars, sometimes rickshaws. They just take people. We don’t know who they are.”

The Rohingya remain in limbo — denied citizenship on both sides of the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.

Food rations have been cut. Gangs and militant groups operate freely, kidnapping, extorting, torturing, killing, and ra**ng refugees – and in some cases forcing them into Myanmar’s civil war.

Some of those gangs are Rohingya themselves.

Yasin feels a lift when hearing the fiery rhetoric of militants vowing to fight for their return. He imagines himself as a mason again in his home village. “But then I look around,” he says. “They have no strategy.”

Like many here, his hopes are fading. “I don’t see a future where we return.”

Out yesterday on our first story from Cox's Bazar
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Additional reporting by and Ro Zeen Kyi