Valentina Sommariva is a Freelance photographer  with a subscription to the association of journalists. She’s focused in interior design, travel and portrait photography. She was born in Milan in 1986 where she still lives and works. After a degree in Architecture in 2008 she studied Design at Brunel University in London. Afterwards she attended a biennial master  in fine art photography at Fondazione Fotografia Modena. She works for many magazines especially in the field of interior design and potrait. At the same time she develops artistic projects through the use of photography and video focused primarily on identity and relationship between man and living space. Her works have been exhibited in various exhibitions and galleries.

CLIENTS

Magazines: Alla Carta, AD Italia, AD USA, AD Russia, Casa Vogue Brazile, Elle Decoration International (Italy, UK, France, Japan, China, Germany, NL, Mexico, Russia), Guardian, How to spend it (Financial Times -UK), Marie-Claire Maison Italia, Living Corriere,  Vogue Turkey, Casa Facile, Vogue Bambini, La Cucina Italiana, Rolling Stones, Domus, Wallpaper*,  Ideat, Case & Country, Schoner wohnen, Real Living Australia.

Companies: Armani Junior, Amini Carpets, Battistella, Bormioli, Chanel, Colombo Stile, Confalonieri Spa, Diesel Kids, Esselunga, Essent’ial, Eumenes, Fabiana Filippi, Foscarini, Herezie Agency, Human Innovation, Issey Miyake, Lamborghini, Matteo Thun, Thun, Mitage, Nava, Nidi Design, Noorth, Rimadesio, Restart Milano, Stokke, Salewa, QC Terme,  Studiopepe, Raw Design,  Unifarco Farmacisti Preparatori.

EXHIBITIONS:

2020 Potresti Spostare lo Specchio, Perimetro, Milano.

2019 Sequenza Sismica,  Italian Institute of Culture, Berlino.

2017/2018 Sequenza Sismica, Mata Modena, Fondazione Fotografia a cura di Filippo Maggia

2017 Xmq of pit, ready for the mosh! | Art Verona |  A cura di Andrea Bruciati e Valentina Lancinio

2016 Vedo non vedo, The Lone T Art Space, Milano, a cura di Filippo Luini

2016 Posto fisso, Fotografia Europea – circuito OFF, Reggio Emilia, a cura di Collettivo Viagiardini

2015 Finalist Invideo film festival, Spazio Oberdan,  Milano

2015 Finalist European Media Art Festival, Osnabruek (Germany)

2014 Finalist Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee, Villa Bardolini, Pieve di Soligo (Tv);

2014 In between, Gamelleria Metronom, Modena

2014 Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano;

2014 Uguali e Diversi, IV Biennale giovani fotografi, Bibbiena;

2014 Remain in Light, Mibersonal exhibition with Valentina

Sommariva and Filippo Luini, Metronom, Modena

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

A professional and passionate photographer, he collaborates with major international editorial offices and agencies that have brought him recognition in the advertising and fashion world. At the same time, he has pursued a personal artistic journey for years, with a deeply intimate approach. Following his own sensitivity, he has created an ever-evolving collection of shots that express the authentic essence of his gaze, revealing an eclectic interpretative ability.

Massimo was born in Reggio Emilia in 1968 and has been capturing what surrounds him since childhood, and since then, he instinctively recognizes his shots when he is filled with a state of inner calm and tranquility. This spontaneous and immediate detachment has always been a constant in his work, not coincidentally, he is a representative of the “Istintiformativismo” movement founded by artist Flavio Renzetti.

He defines himself as someone fascinated by what remains aesthetically unchanged and silent over time.

Among his numerous exhibitions:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 1998 Solo Exhibition, sponsored by Max Mara, London.
• 2006 Solo Exhibition at Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia.
• 2007 European Photography Week, Reggio Emilia.
• 2008 Mois de la Photographie, Selective Art Gallery, Paris.
• 2008 Solo Exhibition at Galleria Candido, Lecce.
• 2008 Solo Exhibition at Palazzo Ducale, Parma.
• 2010 Danza per un corpo libero, Art Inside Gallery, Città Della Pieve (PG).
• 2011 Armonia Discors, Marina di Scarlino (GR).
• 2012 Guzman Contemporanea, Guzman Powder House – Tenuta Uccellina, Orbetello.
• 2012 Solo Exhibition – Simona Marchetti, Lecce.
• 2016 Viaggio a testa in giù, European Photography OFF Circuit, Atelier Marchisio, Reggio Emilia.
• 2018 Armonia Discors, Complesso delle Mura Medicee -Casette Cinquecentesche, Grosseto.
• 2022/23 Sentire la luce, FIDIA Art Gallery, Villino Pastorelli, Grosseto.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2007 sOGGETTI Project, European Photography Festival, Reggio Emilia.
• 2008 Danza per un corpo libero: mutazioni su sfondo nero, European Photography Festival, Reggio Emilia.
• 2009 Bologna batte Berlino, Oltredimore Gallery, Bologna.
• 2009 Danza per un corpo libero, MUTAZIONI B+N, Selective Art Gallery, Paris.
• 2009 Danza per un corpo libero, ARTO’ Art Fair in Open City, Rome.
• 2010/11 Preview, quattro artisti a confronto: Costoli, Renzetti, Cresti, Marchesa, Italo Calvino Library, Castiglione Della Pescaia (GR).
• 2011 Tramonto d’Estate, B_Vedetta – Scarlino (GR).
• 2011 L’Armonia dei Contrasti come legge universale della Natura, Marina di Scarlino (GR).
• 2011 Polemos e Logos: l’Armonia dei Contrasti come legge universale della Natura, TE.PO.TRA.TOS Museum, Monticchiello (SI).
• 2012 Dal concetto alla Forma, i percorsi interiori della creazione artistica, Polveriera Guzman Museum, Orbetello (GR).
• 2013 Primal Energy Off, Tenuta Agricola dell’Uccellina, Parco della Maremma, Magliano in Toscana (GR).
• 2022 OLTRE – Dalla Rivoluzione della Macchia al Postmodernismo, Event Exhibition, Museo del Castello, Piombino (LI).