Antonio Busiello

Antonio Busiello
Born Naples, Italy
Residence London, U.K.
Nationality Italian \ American
Occupation
  • Photographer
  • Author
Awards Royal Photographic Society,
BBC Wildlife Photographer Of The Year,
Environmental Photographer of the Year,
National Geographic photo contest,
The Center for Fine Art Photography Award.
Website antoniobusiello.com

Antonio Busiello is an Italian American award-winning photographer known for his focus on the relationship between man and the natural world that surrounds him.

Life and work

A native of Italy, Busiello study anthropology at the University of Naples, where he developed a deep interest in mankind and its cultural differences. Soon after he started traveling the world, concentrating on photography. He lived in Central America for many years before moving to California and now to London.

In 2010 his passion and love for nature brought him to Africa where he shot "Storm Gathering", a photograph that captured first prize in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year[1] competition in the black and white category. Later that same image was included in the "Best Wildlife Images of the Last 50 years[2][3]", published by London's Natural History Museum in 2015.

By combining his interest in humankind and his passion for the natural world Antonio has created numerous photographic essays. For example, Pride from Atacama, Camp of Shame or "The Cullatore[4][5]", the opening photograph in his anthropological project about the Festival of the Lillies in Italy, won the gold medal from the Royal Photographic Society.[6][7]

More recently, the World Wildlife Fund hired him to shoot its 2016 global campaign.[8]

In 2016, his photograph "Sinking Venice[9]" was chosen as part of the CIWEM - Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibition held at the Royal Geographic Society in London, the third time his work was so honored. In the same year Busiello started freelancing for the renown Italian magazine DOVE,[10] where his first assignments focus on Naples, his hometown.

Busiello's storytelling through photography has caught the interest of museums, including the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC and London's Natural History Museum which have featured his work. Additionally, his images have appeared in a wide variety of media such as National Geographic,[11] World Wildlife Fund,[12] Time, Discovery Channel, BBC Wildlife, Huffington Post[13] and the Washington Post,[14] among others.

In California Busiello is working on an ongoing extensive project about the Channel Islands. A number of his images are part of the permanent exhibition at the National Park Visitor Center in Ventura, California, including his famous "Anacapa Arch", which has became the Park's iconic image.

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Storm gathering". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  2. ↑ "Remarkable archive images from fifty years of Wildlife Photographer of the Year revealed in new commemorative book | Natural History Museum". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-01.
  3. ↑ "50 Years of Wildlife Photographer of the Year – in pictures". the Guardian. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  4. ↑ "Italian photographers win top prizes in Royal Photographic Society". The Independent. 2013-07-19. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  5. ↑ "Antonio Busiello - RPS". www.rps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-01.
  6. ↑ Coomes, Phil (2013-07-12). "Royal Photographic Society exhibition winners". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-04-01.
  7. 1 2 "Antonio Busiello - RPS". www.rps.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  8. ↑ "Eyes on the water in Belize". World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  9. 1 2 "Sinking Venice, Antonio Busiello, Venice | Environmental Photographer of the Year | Pictures | Pics | Express.co.uk". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  10. ↑ "La nostra storia di primavera. L'editoriale di DOVE di marzo - DoveViaggi.it". DoveViaggi.it (in Italian). 2017-02-21. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  11. ↑ "Pictures: Sharks Taught to Hunt Alien Lionfish". National Geographic. 2011-04-04. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  12. ↑ "WWF - Belize on Exposure". Exposure. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  13. ↑ Busiello, Antonio (2016-06-24). "Siena Palio: All In 90 Seconds". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  14. ↑ "Divers are spoon-feeding invasive lionfish to sharks, but will sharks also develop a taste for divers?". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  15. ↑ "Atkins Ciwem environmental photographer of the year 2014 shortlist – in pictures". The Guardian. 2014-06-17. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
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