Photo Credits

www.sarodibartolo.it

Saro di Bartolo

Fond of photography since he was a young boy, in 1969 Saro started dedicating more and more attention to it and began to transform an inclination into a profession.

He and his son Luca collaborate with tour operators and with advertising, graphic-art, and marketing studios. Their interest towards history, art and the world's different civilizations has led them to visit many foreign countries, where they have taken a considerable amount of pictures. Saro & Luca have created audiovisuals for the travel trade ("The United States", "Turkey", "Ravenna and its Art") and for industry.  Their articles and photographs have appeared on various publications.

"The cosmos rolling around us is a steady and endless mixing of curves and lines which stand side by side, run parallel together, split, go crazy, cross over each other, run away and then come back together.

While doing so they give birth to matchings and melodies, shadows and color contrasts.

One must stop, stand still and wait, often with extreme and endless patience, and then catch them, exactly in the right spot and exactly at the right moment, neither a single second too soon nor one too late.

That's how I try to "paint" a line or two of poetry on film". Saro Di Bartolo

Luca di Bartolo

Luca, architetto e fotografo in Firenze www.lucadibartolo.it, si impegna approfonditamente sulla danza, con riscontri di grande soddisfazione.
Collabora con la Scuola del Balletto di Toscana, con la quale ha realizzato un bel servizio fotografico dietro e davanti le quinte, ed è in contatto col MaggioDanza e AterBalletto.

Recentemente ha avuto la possibilitá di seguire le prove dell'ultima creazione di Virgilio Sieni "Dialoghi sulla Deposizione" per il MaggioDanza.

Gaia Scuderi, Ivana Caffarati, Maria Teresa La Marca, ed altre artiste di Firenze fanno uso delle sue immagini e nei prossimi giorni sará impegnato alla manifestazione "Danza In Fiera".

www.davidecamisasca.com

Davide Camisasca

was born in Milano in 1953 and resides at Gressoney-St-Jean (Aosta) from 1972, is a guida alpina and a well known professional photographer, specialized in mountain photography. He had important exhibitions in Milano (1986 and 1992), in Geneve (1988), in London (1990), in Torino (1996), in Trento (1997) and, in more than one occasion, in Valle d'Aosta (1987, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2002).
He has also participated in collective exhibitions in the Aosta Valley and in Sallanches, in France.
Davide authored photographic books on Monte Bianco, on Gran Paradiso, on Gran San Bernardo, on Monte Rosa; he has also dedicated important titles to different aspects of the Aosta Valley architecture and environment.
In 1996, following his interest for the people who live on the Himalaya, he authored Tibet, verso il Monte Kailas.
Among his editors there are Priuli & Verlucca, Pheljna, Musumeci, Lerch.
Davide cooperated with photo reportages and numerous travel magazines, mountain magazines and adventure magazines, both Italian and not.
Important portfolios by Camisasca have been published by the photo magazines "Pro", "Foto Graphia" and "Progresso fotografico".

MARIA CRISTINA RONC - DAVIDE CAMISASCA

Musumeci Editore
A suggestive voyage back in the history of Valle d'Aosta, through some of its most beautiful castle. Testimonials of a past still alive and pulsing, these old mansions revive in the accurate text and in the splendid photos that guide the reader to the discovery of the magic atmosphere of these "messangers of the time". A book of special particulars and emotions that will allow the reader to capture unusual aspects of one of the more well known architectural realities Valle d'Aosta.

You can buy this book and others of his books on his Site: www.davidecamisasca.com

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Silvia Fabbri

is a professional photographer who lives in Greve in Chianti.

Born in Florence, she attended the Artistic High School and then the Academy of Fine Arts, specializing  in graphics and photography. After her degree on a thesis on Images and Music, "Vibrazioni-Florario Musicale" printed in 1999 by L'Autore Libri in Florence, she spent nearly one year in Ireland, UK and Scotland to make some photo researches and study English full time. In the meantime she worked for some local newspapers as a freelance to make experience. Then she got back to Italy and started collaborating with another photographer, mostly to help him in balancing his images and sharing editorial works.

She is a professional photographer and graphics designer from 1999, working locally with newspapers and magazine, as a photographer and writer for several reportages.
She usually sells her images for editorial uses, for private collectors, galleries, clients worldwide.

Her works is based on Photography, Writing and Graphics, in order to fuse these 3 media to get a brand new style or just use one of them from time to time.

To imagine and images are her way to communicate.

Cameras and Computers are her way to concretize it.

www.net-art.it/cirese

David Cirese

was born in 1967 in Rome, where he lives and works as a professional photographer, webmaster and internet services manager. He teaches Teoria e Tecnica di Camera Oscura (photography dark room techniques) at the Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata of Rome since 1994 and is the artistic director of NeT-ArT, Spazio Virtuale di Arte e Comunicazione since 1996.

As a photographer his interest is mainly reportage, tourism, architecture (he collaborated with magazines such as Senza Confine and Gente Viaggi) and experimental photography and fine-art. His pictures have been on display at numerous personal and collective shows and are in several private collections and at the Museo dell'Immagine Fotografica e delle Arti Visuali in Roma. He is present on the Internet, in addition of his photographic work, also with numerous services and web sites he manages.

Rita Crane

Visual artist - photographer - former designer of crystal glass sculpture - collaborator in two owner-built homes - former maker of stained glass windows for a Buddhist retreat center - current art gallery manager - graduate from UCLA in History and Art History - daughter of LIFE magazine photographer Ralph Crane - lover of the forest, of rainstorms, stargazing, and singing frogs - protector of Nature - believer in the enduring strength and value of humanity's creative spirit......With gratitude to her teachers of many traditions, particularly the Tibetan Buddhist lineages ....for their ineffable loving-kindness. May their work in the world continue to help humanity's remarkable evolution towards freedom of mind.

Archival quality prints of her scenes of Old World Europe and images from the beautiful rugged coast of Mendocino in Northern California are available. These include all images posted to Flickr or on her website www.ritacranestudio.com.
You are welcome to contact her here: ptemple@mcn.org.

James Lawson

James is a cosmetic dentist in Encintas, California.

His passion for photography and his training at University of California, San Diego allows him to create the photographic art in his galleries, available to be seen and purchased at: www.lawsonphotography.com

James travels to Italy to capture images that evoke emotions through colors, textures, and compositions.
 

Roberto Romano

Born in Trieste, Italy, in 1959, Roberto is a general practice doctor, with passion for photography.

His main interests are travel, mountains and people.

Mauro Manmano

Mauro Manmano was born in Catania in 1970 and lives in Milan where he works as IT Technical Consultant.
His passion for photography has started in 2001, when he bought his first digital camera.
His favorite subjects are architecture and landscape.
Like many photographers, he wishes to expose his works in order to share his passion with other people.
www.pbase.com/mauroman

Caroline Sarraf (Cas)

Caroline is a well-traveled New York photographer currently resident in Italy. Her photographs of Rome and other Italian locations capture different faces of the country and reflect the diverse aspects of life, art and existence in the complex modern state.

A wide range of images are available as limited edition signed prints. To enquire about prices and availability, about commercial use, or simply to to learn more about her work, please email Cas at cas@italyheaven.co.uk or visit her site: www.carolinesarraf.com

Thomas Marban

born in 1979, from Linz/Austria
executive, happy workaholic and co-founder of werk3AT which is among austrias leading agencies for electronic communications and web engineering since 1998.

8 years of expert knowledge in:

• web technologies

• web standards

• web visuals

• web-based products

• electronic marketing

competence:

• interface for business and technology

• key accounting

• IT project management and enabling

• business development

To visit his site: thomasmarban.com

Marco Milani

Marco Milani, was born in Turin in 1961 and lives near Milan, Italy. He is a professional photographer, specializing in photojournalism and outdoor advertising photography, especially in the mountains, and of mountain sports activities (trekking, skiing, free climbing, mountaineering, mountain biking). He has been climbing since 1980 and has made hundreds of ascents in the Alps and expeditions in India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, USA, Norway, Morocco, Iceland and Patagonia, juggling his passion for nature and mountains with his photographic profession.

His personal photographic research has led him, in particular, to develop techniques for panoramic photography of the natural environment using still cameras with a rotating lens and large format cameras.
Usually he shoots sport and nature photos in mountains, sometimes astronomical pictures as preferred hobby.

With Giuseppe Miotti he co-authored De Agostini’s guide to the Stelvio National Park and, with Alessandro Gogna he wrote four volumes of the series "I Grandi Spazi delle Alpi", Priuli e Verlucca - Melograno Editori; he has also made several art calendars featuring mountain views.

In November 1999 his new book "Alpi, viaggio nella natura" (The Alps, a journey into nature), which is a collection of his most spectacular Alpine photographs, was published by Priuli e Verlucca Editori.

He collaborates with many magazines and his photos have appeared in Airone, Alp, Bell'Europa, Meridiani, La Rivista della Montagna, L'Espresso, Panorama, Oggi, L'Europeo, Famiglia Cristiana, Grazia, Lo Specchio, Sette, Gazzetta dello Sport Magazine, Berge, Alpirando, Alpes, Terre Sauvage, Bike, MBR.

To visit his site: www.marcomilani.com

Leslie Looney

Assistant Professor
Department of Astronomy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1002 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801

Phone: 217-244-3615
Fax: 217-244-7638
email: lwl@uiuc.edu

To visit his site: eeyore.astro.uiuc.edu/mypics/cinque.html