Massimiliano Sticca - Photographer

ABOUT Born in Turin on the 6th of Novembre 1981, he’s a photographer mainly skilled in Reportage and Nature Photography, based in Milan and Turin. At the moment he collaborates with the photo agencies Milestone Media (IT) and ZumaPress (USA). He approaches to photography in 1995 during a journey in Kenya, where he starts taking pictures with his father’s camera, a F401. After that experience his passion for photography begins; thus after high school he decides to turns his hobby into a proper job, entering a whole brand new world pretty hard to penetrate, keeping both his passion for photography and his skills as informatic consultant on C.m.s. opensource systems. Since 1995, thanks to his parent’s passion, he travels across several countries, such as South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Malaysia, Thailand and U.S.A., developing a certain tendency towards Nature Photography and Reportage. In 2013, together with two businessman, Marco D’Oria and Francesco Tesi, they establish a new photo agency for interior and events photography, Shooting Lab. PUBLICATIONS Daily Mail, The Sun, Silhouette, A, Natural Style, In Viaggio, Sky Magazine, Sette, Gente, La Stampa, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, Nphotography, Digital Camera Magazine, FourFourTwo, Chi, Visto, DiPiù, TrovoCase Pregio, Blu Liguria. AWARDS 10/2013 | Photo chosen as a part of the “Daily Dozen” selection on NationalGeographic.com 05/2013 | Photo Of the day on NationalGeographic.com 04/2013 | Photo of the month on NationalGeographic.it 11/2012 | Publication on “No Words”, 1X.com year book 04/2012 | Photo of the month on NationalGeographic.it 2011 | Semifinalist Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 | Flickr Award “Your Best Shot 2009” in pachiderm category Official Website: http://massimiliano.sticca.it/ Archive: http://photo.sticca.it/ - Editorial & Portrait - Reportage - Interior and Architecture - Events - Wildlife & Nature