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Aldo Pavan is a journalist and freelance photographer. Up to now he has travelled hundreds of countries on all five continents, publishing books and working with magazines. He has been teacher of photoreportage at the Istituto di Formazione per il Giornalismo De Martino of Milan , one of the most well-known Italian master schools in the sector. Furthermore, he dedicates himself to photographic experimentation, entering the territory of artistic production.
Since 2003 he has been working on a series of photographic books about the rivers of the world: The Ganges (2005), Nile (2006), Yellow River (2007) published in five languages by Thames and Hudson, Hachette, Magnus Edizioni, Lunwerg and Himhof. The next titles are Mekong and Danube. Another project he is preparing is entitled The Routes of Man , a series of books dedicated to the great trade routes of the world. The first book, will describe the Ancient Gold Route in Africa, connecting black Africa with the Mediterranean, through the Sahara.

Born in 1954 in Treviso, since his youth he has painted, participated in art exhibitions, interested himself in aesthetics and has dedicated himself to serigraphy and photography, experimenting in the dark room. After graduating in philosophy, he began writing for the newspaper Tribuna di Treviso and for Domenica del Corriere. He began his career as a photojournalist in the early 1970s with the weekly magazine L'Europeo, covering mainly northeast Italy and Yugoslavia . During this period, Pavan published a number of features on the progress towards independence of the republic of Slovenia . He then covered the fall of communism in Albania , also writing for the Corriere della Sera newspaper. After terminating his collaboration with L'Europeo , Aldo Pavan worked for a couple of years with Panorama and Epoca magazines, dealing with current affairs and life style features. In the meantime, he had begun to concentrate on travel features with the specific aim of providing newspapers with complete report packages, including copy and photographs. It was in this perspective that Pavan began to collaborate with the travel magazine Gulliver . In 1993, his debut contribution was published in Gulliver's first issue. For Calderini, the Bologna-based publisher, he wrote a journalistic book entitled Danubio ( Danube ). It was a collection of features on the regions that line the banks of the great Central European river after the fall of communism.

In 1994, Pavan began to collaborate with CLUP, for which he compiled two travel guides, Ungheria ( Hungary, co-authored) and Slovenia ( Slovenia ), the first book of its kind to appear in Italy after the break-up of the former Yugoslavia . In 1997, Pavan wrote Istria, Quarnaro e Dalmazia (Istria, Kvarner and Dalmatia ) for the Guida Vacanze series, published by the Touring Club Italiano. In the meantime, Pavan's collaboration with Gulliver was intensifying. He has published about 130 travel features compiled in America, Australia , China, the Middle East, South East Asia and Antarctica . In addition to Gulliver , Aldo Pavan has contributed to Gente Viaggi, Io Donna, Qui Touring, Week End, Weekend, Verve, Africa and other publications in Italy and abroad. He has published a series of pocket travel guides entitled Venezia (Venice), Messico (Mexico), Santo Domingo , Corsica , Marocco (Morocco), Francia Sud Ovest (South West France) and Francia Occidentale (Western France). The last book published in Italian (2007) is a long reportage about Burma for Feltrinelli Traveller, entitled Sui Sentieri dell'Oppio (On the Opium Trails).