Antonio Busiello is an Italian American photographer.

Antonio Busiello
Born
Naples, Italy
NationalityItalian / American
Occupations
  • 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
Websiteantoniobusiello.com

Life and work edit

A native of Italy, Busiello studied anthropology at the University of Naples. He lived in Central America for many years before moving to California and then to London.

In 2010 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.

Busiello has created numerous photographic essays. These include, among others, Pride from Atacama, Camp of Shame or The Cullatore[4][5]", the opening photograph in his anthropological project about the Festival of the Lilies in Italy, won the gold medal from the Royal Photographic Society.[6][7]

In 2015 the World Wildlife Fund hired him to shoot its global campaign.[8]

One year later his photograph "Sinking Venice[9]" was chosen as part of the CIWEM – Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibition held at the Royal Geographical Society in London. In the same year Busiello started freelancing for the Italian magazine DOVE,[10] where his first assignments focus on Naples, his hometown.

Busiello's work has been exhibited in museums, including the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC and London's Natural History Museum. His photographs have appeared in National Geographic,[11] World Wildlife Fund,[12] Time, Discovery Channel, BBC Wildlife, Huffington Post[13] and the Washington Post.[14] A number of his images are part of the permanent exhibition at the National Park Visitor Center in Ventura, California, including the image "Anacapa Arch".

Awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "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. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07. 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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "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. Archived from the original on April 5, 2011. 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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