He completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours in 2002 and worked as pharmacist for several years before working as a freelance photographer.
He has always been very fond of visual arts but his interest in photography began only few years ago, in 2011. He is a self taught photographer and at the end of 2012 he began to work professionally in this field. His main interest is documentary photography. He has exhibited several times in Sicily, in either solo or group exhibition, and internationally in London, Atlanta and Brooklyn.
He has won several international awards, such as the World Press Photo, 1x Photo
Awards, shortlisted at the Sony World Photography Awards, Life Framer and Photolux Leica Awards, Honorable mentions at the MIFA and IPA.
Sony World Photography Awards, la plus grande compétition photographique au monde, révéle ses gagnants pour les 3 catégories : "Open", "Youth" et "Mobile Phone". Cette dernière catégorie est la vraie nouveauté de cette année 2015 puisqu'elle met en compétition des passionnés de photo... armés de leur seul téléphone portable !
Tous les gagnants ont été choisis parmi 96 000 participants.
OPEN COMPETITION : Les gagnants sont :
Architecture - Armin Appel, Germany
Arts & Culture - Hector Muñoz Huerta, Mexico
Enhanced - Antony Crossfield, United Kingdom
Low Light - Nick Ng, Malaysia
Nature & Wildlife - Antoine Weis, Switzerland/ Luxemburg (joint nationality)
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Open and Youth winners revealed for 2015 Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s biggest photography competition.
The Open and Youth winners along with the inaugural Mobile Phone winner of the world’s biggest photography competition, the Sony World Photography Awards, are announced today. Drawn from the four corners of the world and covering a huge range of subjects, the winning photographers were chosen from over 96,000 entries to the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards. The achievement of each of the 14 winners is extraordinary not only in terms of the competition they faced, but also the fact that these winners are largely not professional photographers; instead they are simply individuals who love photography. The youngest winning photographer is Stephanie Anjo from the United Kingdom who is just 14 ...