Eleonora D’Angelo
“It’s easier to take pictures when you know something about your subject, when you know something about their life,” Naples-born photographer Eleonora D’Angelo explains. To capture emotions in a photograph, to really get below the surface and give depth to a picture, you need to build a relationship with the person you are photographing. Maybe it’s the lighting, maybe it’s the knowledge of her subjects, maybe even just the colors Eleonora seeks out, but whatever it is, the magic of “first times” is caught on her camera and boldly presented in her images, many of which seem to recall neoclassical art.
Stephanie Draime and Edo Cerruti
Photography duo (and couple!) since 2018, Florentine Eduardo Cerruti and Mexican-American Stephanie Draime met at a cafe in Florence. Three weeks later, they were living in Paris together, before a relocation to New York, and have barely left each other’s sides since. Now they can be found traveling the world, shooting for the likes of Cereal Magazine in Soho and Coqui Coqui Hotel in the Mexican Riviera. They share an eye for detail and for light in their work, and it’s easy to see how they make such a great pair, depending on each other’s opinion, while respecting the places in which there is difference.
Federico Ciamei
Born in Rome and based in Milan, Federico Ciamei knows how to translate a moment of humor to film. With a strong preference for analog photography, Ciamei works both on commission and for personal projects. We particularly love his “A – Z Milano”, a collection of 21 postcards with original photography that encapsulate the spirit of the city: e.g. D for Duomo, G for Grigio, S for Sciura, and so on. You can also find his work in international magazines like The New York Times Style Magazine, M le Magazine du Monde, Travel + Leisure, Missoni, Wired, D La Repubblica.
Michele Iacobini
It’s colors that are of utmost importance to Michele Iacobini, a young photographer who hails from Rome. Surprisingly, considering the city’s wealth of magnificence, the Eternal City is not where his passions as a photographer lie: his great love is southern Italy, especially the Aeolian Islands. It’s the colors that magnetically pull him to the south: the soft, pastel shades; the deep tones of the sunsets and the sparkling hues of the sea. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Michele is focused on taking images of the full scene, rather than individuals. Portrait photography is currently having a bit of a moment–it’s very popular on social media as well–but Michele likes to avoid people as the subject of his “personal projects.” This focus creates a clear divide between work–he’s a fashion photographer by day–and play. There’s a dreamy consistency to Michele’s photographs, something that really captures a feeling of wandering through the landscape in the south of the peninsula.
Paolo Abate
Twenty-something Paolo Abbate hails from Naples, though he now lives in Switzerland, where he studied interior design. Unsurprisingly, his photography captures this expertise, and the focus of his work is on majestic palaces, abandoned villas, and the like. Warm palettes and soft shades add a sense of calm and quiet to his photos; it’s easy to get lost in his compositions. “Non vivo più a Napoli ma porto nel cuore il ricordo della luce estiva sulle coste sorrentine,” he tells us. “Non a caso ci ritorno ogni volta che posso.” (“I no longer live in Naples, but I carry in my heart the memory of the summer light on the Sorrento coast. Not surprisingly, I go back whenever I can.”)
