Sheila Rock was born in the USA and educated at Boston University and the London Film School.
She has lived and worked in London since 1970. She became an influential force shaping the look of creative magazines like The FACE magazine.

She has enjoyed a successful career crossing the full spectrum of genres, photographing for the entertainment and music industry, advertising and design agencies and periodicals.

Her editorial portrait and fashion work have appeared in numerous magazines, including Time Magazine, Elle, Glamour, German Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Architectural Digest and the Sunday Times.

She has photographed many celebrities including:
ACTORS – Kate Winslet, Rachel Weiss, Zoe Wannamaker, Colin Firth, Ricky Gervais.
OPERA SINGERS: Placido Domingo, Dame Kiri Takanawa, Angela Gheorghiu,
Bryn Terfel
CELEBRITY CHEFS: Nigella Lawson, & Heston Blumenthal.
OLYMPIC ATHELETES: Steve Redgrave, Denise Lewis, Dame Kelly Holmes,.
CONDUCTORS: Sir Simon Rattle , Antonio Pappano, Daniel Barenboim
SINGERS: Bryan Ferry, Sade, Phil Collins, Debbie Harry, Sting, Paul Weller

Her Commercial clients have included:
French Connection, Clarks, EMI,Cacharel,BMW, Deutsche Grammaphon, Nestlè,Timotei
L’Oreal, Persil, Jiff, Panadol, Rowan,Romerquelle, Barilla, Laura Ashley, Swish Jeans, Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland

Her book, Sera – the way of the Tibetan Monk – published in 2004, accompanied several exhibitions at The Photographers Gallery, London and the Palazzo Bricherasio Museum, Turin, Italy and The June Bateman Gallery, New York City.

Her second book, PUNK + is a document of the London 70s punk scene and was published in 2013 (FirstThirdBooks). Exhibitions followed in London, Paris and Berlin . In 2014, she had a touring exhibition of Punk in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong kong and Singapore.
Her latest book, TOUGH & TENDER is a delicate and sensitive report from the English seaside and published in 2015 ( Kehrer Books). She also showed her Seascape portraits at the Johanna Breede Gallery in Berlin and at the Agnes B Gallery at Paris Photo.

Her portrait work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Her images from the Sera series are in the permanent collection of the Polaroid Museum, USA and the William Benton Museum of Art in Connecticut, USA.
Ralph Lauren Polo own a number of her horse portraits worldwide.

She has been profiled in professional and popular photographic magazines and newspapers.

01. Evening Standard, Metro, England, 2003.
02. British Journal of Photography, England. October 2003
03. Black and White Photography, England. November 2003
04. Boston Globe Newspaper, USA. February 2004
05. B&W Magazine for Collectors of Fine Art Photography, USA. Issue 30. April 2004
06. Bloomsbury Review, April, 2004
07. Royal Photographic Society Journal, England. April 2004
08. Soprattutto Magazine, Italy. 2004
09. Polaroid International Photography Issue No.28. P Magazine, 2005
10. Wall Street Journal, 2007
11 Shots Magazine, USA. 2007
12. Art New England, USA. 2008
13. Profifoto Magazine, Germany. January, 2009
14. Brennpunkt, Magazine fur Fotografie, Berlin, Summer, 2010

Francesca Moscheni, photographer, born in Venice, earned a Diploma in Scenography from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan in 1987. An experienced photographer since 1985, she began her career taking portraits and reportage, working with names like Harper’s Bazaar Italia, Bazaar Uomo, West Uff.

Her work is often the result of a sideways glance that manages to cross all photographic genre. Their main skills are food and lifestyle photography, portraits, Hotels&Resorts reportage.

Since 1990, her own very personal style and vision of travel reporting has been the subject of several exhibitions, which she has organized and participated in, both on her own and with other artists.

In 2011 she won the Food Feature Award at the international FoodPhoto Festival inTarragona for the best food reportage of the year.

In 2013 she started to shoot as director in commercial food and lifestyle video, making her fresh visual approach.

In 2015 Sky Arte HD together with Fondazione Fotografia Modena produced 6 master of photography lessons. Francesca made her personal Food and Travel lesson brodcasted on italain and international tv.

In the same year she won the italian Gourmand World Cookbook Award, Best Design CookBook category published by Bibliotheca Culinaria.

In 2016 she gave her contribution to a video exhibition on the history of italian women photography in Triennale di Milano.

In 2017 she took part with a very personal exhibition at the very first edition of Milan Photo Week.

In 2019 she presented at Fuorisalone in Milan the book Pantone FoodMood published by Tommasi Editore.

She has worked with Interni, Casa Vogue, Vogue Sposa, Vogue Gioiello, Vanity Fair, Amica, Anna, Gioia, Gioia Casa, Home, Donna, Elle, Casa Viva, D di Repubblica, L’Europeo, Tuttoturismo, Sposabella, Marie-Claire, Marie-Claire Maison, Marie Claire Travel, Dove, V&S, Gulliver, Week-End Viaggi, Gente Viaggi, Spazio Casa, Brava Casa, Sale&Pepe, La Cucina Italiana, Departure, New York Times Magazine, Glamour France, Saveur, ArtCulinaire, Travel & Leisure, Monocle.

She has created advertising work for companies such as Barilla, Rana, Birra Moretti, Olio Carli, Bauli, Bindi Dessert, Findus, Emile Henry, Salvatore Ferragamo, Venini, Bormioli, De Padova, Parmigiano Reggiano, Muller, Illy, Galbani, Grana Padano, Negroni, Biffi, Coop.

Lives and works in Milan.

 

EXHIBITIONS:

2019 – 8-14 April
PANTONE FOODMOOD
Spazio Guido Tommasi Editore – Milan

2018 – 4/30 June
LA RICCHEZZA DEL GRANO

PhotoFestival – Eataly Smeraldo – Milano

2018 – 9 May/23 June
I SEGNI DI DIO
PhotoFestival – Spazio SID Broletto – Pavia

2018 – 3/17 Maggio
RITRATTI SU CARTA
Ristorante Tre Cristi – Milano

2018 – 9/12 Marzo
MIA Photo Fair 2018
The Mall – Milano

2017 – 29 Settembre/30 Ottobre
DIALOGHI 2017
Food Fest – Oderzo

2017 – 5/17 Giugno
STRAPPI D’IMMAGINE
Galleria Carte Scoperte – Milano

2015 – 27 Maggio/16 Giugno
L’ESTETICA DEL REBUS
PhotoFestival – Palazzo Bovara – Milano

2011 – 30 Settembre/29 Ottobre
I SEGNI DI DIO
Il Tucano Concept Store, Torino Spiritualità – Torino

2002 – 11/24 Settembre
I SEGNI DI DIO
Musei di Porta Romana – Milano

2000 – 3/18 Giugno
UN LUOGO DELL’ESSERE
Palazzo Pecci Caiani – Foiano – Arezzo

1999 – 2/31 Dicembre
AFFIORAMENTI
Fandango – Milano

1999 – 15/25 Settembre
UN LUOGO DELL’ESSERE
Galleria Forni – Milano

1997 – 17/30 Settembre
55 MICRO
Modarte – Milano
1993 – 1° Dicembre – Giornata mondiale dedicata alla lotta contro l’AIDS
I CENTO VOLTI DELLA SOLIDARIETA’
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci – Prato

1993 – 12/21 Ottobre
I CENTO VOLTI DELLA SOLIDARIETA’
Società Umanitaria – Milano

1991 – 1/31 Ottobre
GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Spazio Foto La Rinascente – Milano

1991 – 3/20 Aprile
GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Centro Foto San Fedele – Milano

1990 – 31 Maggio/7 Giugno
DELLA NATURA DELL’ARTE
Multiart – Milano