Alex majoli

Photographer

Magnum photographer Majoli made his name in the mid-1990s with Leros, a study of a psychiatric hospital in Greece. He has since shot on the frontlines of Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Congo for the likes of The New York Times and National Geographic. When we secured behind-the-scenes access at the Vatican Museums, he explored its hallowed halls and archives to cast light on the dynamic regime of its first-ever female director, Barbara Jatta (page 408).