nicolò amato

Nicolò Amato, alia NessuNettuno. Born in Messina in 1982, where the waters of the Stretto of Messina are as the amniotic fluid in which we grew up, he formed its art.

He approached there with the history of mythical figures such as nymphs, sorceresses, wild women, terrible monsters, strange creatures, whales, fairies, become symbols, allegories, metaphors which he relate to the power of nature, that still today testify our needs and ours hopes. nessunNettuno presents paintings in which he talks about nature, the marine world, fish, plants, and does so in turn through symbols, allegories and metaphors on the wall and streets as new language in the mediterranean.

marcella simonelli

Always interested in art and creative world, she takes photography as her artistic language which has changed the way she looks and feels things. She starts her aesthetic and perception research through the camera. The project that she prefers are where different artistic fields are involved. After the first solo show “Ossessione Vesuvio” (1998-1999) she participated in personal and collective projects in Italy and abroad, also winning some prizes. She has participated in conferences and provided images for editorial initiatives. Water is the element where she is discover her self and the beauty of the world.

bernadette vincent

Belgian, currently living in Cambodia.

Telling stories is my passion, whether using photography, painting, drawing, writing, theatre, dance, or a mixture of it all. Images are very powerful but also allow our imagination to take off on its own... I have had the privilege of traveling and living in many countries, and realize what I knew all along, we are all the same, full of sad, happy, strange, extraordinary and ordinary stories waiting and wanting to be told... 

massimo stragapede

Writer and photographer
In 1998 published his first novel “Il torneo di Viale Monaco”.
In 2004 published the novel “Il camminatore”.
In 2006, together with other writers,  published the project “Pallafatù”.
In 2010 his reportage about the contemporary Russia become an exhibition and a book: “Vado dove mi portano gli occhi”.
In 2011 he held an exhibitions “Colori di Puglia” in Tianjin and Chongqing, in China.
The same year, he installed the exhibition “Io non brucio” in an italian forest devastated by the fire.
His novel “Restare, partire”, released on March 2013.

alberto storari

Born in San Bonifacio (VR) in 1975 and currently lives and works between Vienna , London and Bologna. After the Art school diploma he starts attended the classes of Professor Concetto Pozzati, and graduated at the Bologna Academy of Fine Art in year’ 2001. He begins to work at the MAMBO ( Bologna Modern Art Museum) and acquire the teaching degree in pictorial disciplines. In recent years Storari was the personal assistant of Maurizio Bottarelli and Giuseppe Spagnulo masters of Art, and he also gave his contribution in various theatrical staging.

“Mare Nostrum"  Paestum a magical place and that the ancients chose to build one of the largest places of worship and importantMediterranean.Weather conditions and time confused sea andsky, the light comes front and outlines a horizon infinite, once again the relation between the place and history speaks of a extraordinary energy.

olga stefatou

Freelance photographer and multimedia journalist based in Beijing. 

She grew up in Athens, Greece. She studied photography at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and obtained her Masters degree in Multimedia Journalism in 2012 in China from University of Bolton, UK. From 2003 to 2005 she was assistant to Magnum photographer Nikos Economopoulos. Her work has appeared in several Greek and international publications.

In 2010, she participated in the collective multimedia project The Prism 2011. Since 2006, she has been working on her project 'Silent Crossing', in Burma. The last two years her documentary work has focused on violence against women in Athens and Beijing. Olga has given photographic courses to people with mental disabilities at the Social Association 'Ef Zin' (in 2010) and to the employees of Procter & Gamble company (in 2011).

Group Shows:

'Silent Crossing', 2012 First multimedia art festival (Yangon, Myanmar)

'Sex trafficking', 2011 Kondra art festival (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Locus Loci, 2010 Photobiennale photography festival (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Make History, 2010 Lee (Modena, Italy)

Prestige, 2004 Photosyngiria photography festival (Thessaloniki, Greece)

paolo scoppola

Paolo Scoppola creates interactive video installations based on natural interfaces. Born in Rome in 1971, his passion for music and drawing blossomed at school. He discovered his interest in photography later and then for computer science, which he went on to study at university. After graduating, he worked for ten years in the development of virtual reality applications and 3D software, also creating some musical projects for television productions and a series of photographic reportages. After a short period of lecturing at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography (Italian National Film School), he devoted his time to interactive video installations. In 2008 he presented his first work: Reflection, at the Festival of Spoleto. In 2011, he extended his interests to interaction based on brain waves, developing research projects in collaboration with the University of Trieste. He currently works with advertising agencies, research organizations and participates in festivals and cultural events.

AquaBoll

A big screen welcomes the audience with background music. As soon as someone approaches, AquaBoll start drawing the outlines of the audience, in a continuous overlapping forms. The colors are taken from seawater and alternating with white lines reminiscent of the surf. It 'a continuous floating in colors and shapes that evoke the natural relationship between man and water. The gestures of the spectators are then accompanied by the sound of the waves, the intensity of which depends upon the movements, giving the illusion that these trails of color are precisely the waves of the sea.

The sound, the colors, its unpredictability, its poetry and its reality to live with and protect, WATER.

ampannee satoh

Born in 1983, Pattani Thailand.

2006, graduated my Bachelor degree in Fine Arts, (Photography) from Rangsit University Thailand.

2007, after completing the first degree, he had chance to involve in the photographing competition which was “YOUNG THAI ARTIST AWARD 2007” (Photography). Also, he got the Grand prize from such competition.

2008, he spent the time for photography regarding woman right in the area of South Thailand insurgency which is his hometown and Islamic Schools in that area. In the same year, he had been involved in “Face à Faces" Mois de la photographie Bangkok.

2009, he had participated "PhotophnomPenh Festival" Cambodge.

2010, he left Thailand to study in France at L’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie at Arles, France. In same year, he created the photograph series called ‘Burqa 2010’ under the question where is the right of women when Burqas are not allowed.In 2011, he had his solo exhibition at Katmandu Gallery, Bangkok. After that, he had been selected to be involved in "Idols and Icons" exhibition at YAVUZ Fine Art , Singapore. Now, he’s teaching photographing at Rangsit University,Thailand and he is working on his own photograph collection.

arvin samson mamhot

I grew up in a family of teachers in a small town in the central part of the Philippines. During my elementary and high school I was always a part of a glee club or a choir since my family are keen at music and the arts. This is where I started my passion for photography as my brothers ‘ painting and drawing inspired me to pick up the camera. In college, although I was studying as a teacher then, I find time to visit museums and art galleries to hone my eyes and continue my passion for photography. As of the moment, I am staying with my wife and son; teaching English at the university here in Phnom Penh and at teaching basic photography, mostly in the genre of street photography. 

rodolfo m. rocca

Emerging author who was born in Rome in 1982, is formed in Barcelona (Spain) at the IDEP (Instituto Superior de Diseño, asociado a la Universitat Abat Oliba CEU, y Escuela de la Imagen. Estudios de Diseño Gráfico, Diseño Multimedia) continuing reference training and participatory workshops at the Cultural Association Photo of Rome.

Culturally oriented part of Transpersonal Psychology and Holistic school Estel in Barcelona, the author combines the visual perception with the suggestions of deep filtered through the camera. Lives and works between Italy and Spain (Rome, Bari, Barcelona ) cultivating the interests of those photos and humanities.

enrico ponzone

Italian entrepreneur, writer and freelance photographer.
Born in Milano, brought up in Tangiers, Morocco, he then studied in Belgium and moved to London to work in finance. His first encounter with photography occurred in the early 90's during a course with Magnum Photos Patrick Zachmann at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France.  In 2001 he founded a photography website which became a reference in travel photography and partnered with leading travel portals, hospitality sites such as Relais & Chateaux as well as photo archives like Scala Group. Enrico is a keen traveller with a particular focus on Africa. The photos presented were taken during a field trip in Nubia, Sudan, in April 2011.

simona peci

Born on 1970 in Montefiore dell'Aso (AP) Italy. She graduated from School of Art. She attended courses of theater and photography and participated at photography competitions and poetry. She published poems and won photography competitions (Italy).

"The man is always in search of his amniotic fluid to be able to find himself and the sense of security that water remembers him, hiding among its blue dreams."

carlo pisa

Carlo Pisa was born in Italy. Currently he lives and works between Italy and Russia.

In 1982 he started studying photography and began work as David Lees’ assistant on the staff of the photographers of the Time Life group. He also was part of international working teams and was involved in international workshops on photojournalism hosted by Alex Webb, Bob Sacha, Tomasz Tomaszewski and Jane Evelyn Atwood. 

From 1984 to 2004 he worked as a professional photojournalist.

All his editorial works are a sensitive attempt to tell stories about people and places making use of a language which enabled him to express the frailty of the images of the life we have before our very eyes.

As of 2004, he has been engaged in individual researches meant to be the first step of an exclusively artistic path.

manuel morillo

 “I do not remember when I took a camera for the first time, but I remember clearly the first time I did it intentionally. It was for a trial competition, and the pictures were crap. I thought the camera had something to do with it, so I invested in my first reflex and continued to take bad pictures for a long time. One day, I started my own life, left my house, left my country, and started to know other lives and realities. The camera did not have that much to do with it. If the pictures don’t come to you, then you should go to shoot them…”

Was born in Seville, Spain, in 1971. Started in photography on his own in 1990. In 1995 went to live in London to have a try, but life took other ways. In year 2000 went to Guatemala to work with a foundation dedicated to work with kids living in marginal areas, using photography as a tool to change things. He continued with them for eight years, and at the same time working in his own projects or assignments from organizations. In the last years, he has worked for Red Cross International, ChildFund and FAO Guatemala, among other local organizations, and has shown his work in four countries in different solo and group exhibitions.

nicola longobardi

Was born in Bologna (Italy) and very soon felt a strong attraction towards visual arts which later became the language that he uses to express himself.

After two years spent in China, Nicola decided to focus his talent on photography and signed up for a master in photojournalism at the John Kaverdash Academy of Photography in Milan. Once the master was over, Nicola started to work and travel in different countries with the purpose of telling the peoples‘ stories through the eyes of his lenses, living many lives in one long lifetime. 

dav leakpheakdey

Woman photographer born in 1989. She is a Studio Image student 2012 at the Institute of French Culture (IFC). Besides as a young photographer. She is a Legal Associate at Gordon & Associates. She live in Boeung Chhouck Village, a suburb city of Phnom Penh. 

Her Photo describe the way she is worrying: 

“Having found my young life in a corner of nature, I am so worry with the change to my village. Rubbish has been ignored and the rain stream brings it to the everywhere, to the water source, to my old primary school, and to my house. The life is getting suffer, the fish, the water tree, and the human as well.”

hoeng keomakara

He was born on 06 January 1986 in Battambang Province, Kingdom of Cambodia. When he gradueted High School in 2004, with art artistic ability, he decided to persue Bachelor Degree of Arts in field of Design at Singapore University, SETEC in Phnom Penh Capital. After he graduated in 2009, he had been working as Interior Designer at Thai-American Company nmed Yianko Associate for 3 years. Then, he moved to work at Nagaworld as Interior Coordinator for a period of time until he went back from Japan with Young Artist Exchange Program.Regarding to Photography background, he used to win two local Photo competitions organized by Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center in 2010 and 2011. He partecipated and won Interantional Asian-Korea Multimedia competion in Seoul. In South Korea he attended the Studio Image Photography Class at Institute Francais di Cambodge in 2012. In the same year he organised the first solo exhibition in Tokyo and in Phnom Pehn.

anna kahn

Anna Kahn (Rio de Janeiro, 1968) studied photography at the School of Visual Arts, in NY. She moved to Paris in 1999 where she lived untill 2007. The exhibition "Portraits of Absence", inspired by theme of death, was displayed from November 2007, in Rio. And "Magic Eye”, a peek into the interiors of Copacabana, in 2009. The project “Fryslan through foreign eyes” was an artistic residence in the Netherlands. In January 2012 she had the solo exhibition "Faceless Bullets”, at the Murkudis Gallery, Berlin. Currently AK is part of project "5East-5West" curated by Jean Loh, founder of Beaugeste Gallery, Shanghai, with the theme of water.

gabriele fanelli

Born in Francavilla Fontana (BR) in 1986. He studied Philosophy at the Universities of Lecce and Torino. attracted by the cameras as a child, he learns to use self, to exhibit his photographs in various exhibitions Puglia and Piedmont. Following participation in a workshopphotography show, became the official photographer of Italy Wave Love Festival for the 2011 edition. In 2012, photographer backstage for the fashion show by designer Paola Pure, at MIFF Awards.

zhu di

Born in 1969 in Hefei (China). He graduated in 1991 from the Beijing Central Academy of Art and Design (now Tsinghua University), Department of Ceramic Design. He taught drawing and painting at the Hefei University of Technology and Chinese Language at the University of Venice.

The Italian Rai News Channel dedicated a special report on his works.

His works have been published in art books and specialized academic journals such as Taojian, Con-fine, Art, The Fine Arts World, Ceramics Science and Art.

His ceramic works are collected by art institutions such as the China Museum of Ceramic, Ningbo Museum etc.