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." 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. Terra Nostra. Stockport, England: Dewi Lewis, 2017. . With an introduction by and an afterword by Sean O'Hagan. 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).