Italian Photographer: MATTEO SETZU

Matteo Setzu was born on January 25, 1977, in Cagliari. His love for photography dates back to his childhood—. After completing his higher education, he moved to Spain, where he lived for seven years. His interest in photography grew as he often returned to Sardinia for holidays and wanted to capture moments of local tradition to take back with him to Spain.

He gained popularity through the internet, where he began publishing his photos. He is well known as "the photographer of the Carnivals." The subjects of his photographs are mainly Sardinian traditions and local festivals.

He had an important experience in Portugal, where he documented the Holy Week in the Idanha-a-Nova district and participated in the  "VI Festival de la Mascara Iberica" ( the 6st Festival of Iberian Mask). He also contributes to several Sardinian websites.

Below this description, you can find more information and view his photos.

http://nonvogliolavorare.it/matteo-setzu-fotografo/

http://iosardegnaturismo.blogspot.it/2012/11/obiettivo-sardegna-con-matteo-setzu.html

 http://www.paradisola.it/foto-sardegna/fotografi/3118-matteo-setzu

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Matteo-Setzu-fotografo-per-passione/154295901266090

Italian Photographer: PAOLO SIMONAZZI

Paolo Simonazzi was born in Reggio Emilia in 1961. He started his career as a photographer in 1990. He works on an  anthropological photograph projects after  an initial interest in travel photos. His first collection Attimi d'Africa was displayed in Italy and then in Paris, in 1996 ,  at the Mois bis de la photo. He captured the emotions in the pictures taken during the World Youth Day (JMJ)  and those photos were displayed in Rome in 2000. Exhibitions of his photos are at the “Musèe de la Photographie” in Charleroi (Belgium), at the “ Bibliotéque Nationale de France” in Paris and in several Italian Museums.

Italian Photographer: FERDINANDO SCIANNA

Ferdinando Scianna

Italian, born in  1943
Ferdinando Scianna started taking photographs in the 1960s while studying literature, philosophy and art history at the University of Palermo. It was then that he began to photograph the Sicilian people systematically. Feste Religiose in Sicilia (1965) included an essay by the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia, and it was the first of many collaborations with famous writers.
Scianna moved to Milan in 1966. The following year he started working for the weekly magazine L'Europeo, first as a photographer, then from 1973 as a journalist. He also wrote on politics for Le Monde Diplomatique and on literature and photography for La Quinzaine Littéraire.
In 1977 he published Les Siciliens in France and La Villa Dei Mostri in Italy. During this period Scianna met Henri Cartier-Bresson, and in 1982 he joined Magnum Photos. He entered the field of fashion photography in the late 1980s. At the end of the decade he published a retrospective, Le Forme del Caos (1989).
Scianna returned to exploring the meaning of religious rituals with Viaggio a Lourdes (1995), then two years later he published a collection of images of sleepers - Dormire Forse Sognare (To Sleep, Perchance to Dream). His portraits of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges were published in 1999, and in the same year the exhibition Niños del Mundo displayed Scianna's images of children from around the world.
In 2002 Scianna completed Quelli di Bagheria, a book on his home town in Sicily, in which he tries to reconstruct the atmosphere of his youth through writings and photographs of Bagheria and the people who live there.

Awards
1966       Prix Nadar (for Feste Religiose in Sicilia), France