Andrea Frazzetta

01/02/2021

A lone surfer getting back on shore after challenging the icy ocean waves off the Lofoten Islands. Surfers from all over the world come to the Lofoten in the Arctic Circle to surf in extreme conditions, where the ocean temperature is 6-7 C, and air temperature around 0 C.

This image is taken with a 16-35mm lens. It has created a frame that brings out the power of the human figure in the center of the photo. Wide-angle lenses, that is, with focal lengths shorter than 35mm, are lenses with a greater depth of field. What you can simultaneously focus on is much larger, resulting in images full of detail and sharpness.
-35mmF2.8GM Sony

29/09/2020

Danakil fine art prints are available now. Open editions, affordable for everyone, for 47 days, through the "Open Edition Gallery".
Part of the proceeds will go to finance the production of cultural projects against racism. Buy your print at the link: https://openeditiongallery.com/product-category/fotografi/andrea-frazzetta/
I’m happy to be part of this project by the friends .magazine
Open Edition Gallery is a new online platform born from the experience of 100 Photographers for Bergamo, a charity operation that was collected during the COVID emergency, in favor of Pope John the 23rd Hospital between March 27 and April 6, 2020, a budget of € 727,600.OEG wants to create a virtuous system, based on the sale of open edition prints, that can financially feed the work of the photographers of the Cultural Association Perimetro, promoter of the project, while maintaining an identity of charitable character.

29/05/2020

I am honored to receive the "Ischia International Journalism Award" for my work for The New York Times Magazine. The award is organized under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, and the Italian Order of Journalists.
I'm moved to see my work recognized, in my country, by colleagues and professionals whom I admire. A special thanks to Mario Calabresi for having nominated me, and to the jury for having recognized this merit.

A Giovanna Botteri il riconoscimento per il giornalismo televisivo. Cerimonia a Lacco Ameno il 12 settembre

05/04/2020

"100 and more photographs to help Bergamo Hospital to face Covid-19 emergency"
Support us, it’s the last day! There are more than 100 great pictures on sale, more than 500.000 Euro were raised already.
At the link: https://perimetro.eu/100fotografiperbergamo/

27/02/2020

by SanDisk # Norway’s Lofoten Islands have some of the world’s best conditions for cold-water surfing, near the white, sandy bay of Unstad, in the northwest. Off the shore, the sea is some 1,500 feet deep: waves can travel all the way from Greenland, uninterrupted. Unstad waves are long and regular, just the way surfers like them. “But the really special thing is that we’re utterly alone in the water here. It’s just us, our boards, and the vastness of nature all around us.”

03/02/2020

by SanDisk # Stromboli, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, rises majestically in the middle of the sea north of the Sicilian coast. A few hundred people live bravely at its foot, on a strip of volcanic land blessed with beauty but constantly dominated by an impending force of nature. He, the volcano—or “Iddu,” as the locals call it—is the master of the island. There is not a time in the day in which you could forget its threatening and yet magnificent presence.

21/12/2019

Reposted from • Photo by | Stromboli Island looms behind Strombolicchio, its sister island, off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea. I recently photographed these islands for “What it’s like to live in the shadow of an active volcano,” now on the National Geographic website. As the writer Giannella Garrett explains: “I’m energized by the experience of hiking this volcano again. But I realize I don’t need to ascend Stromboli’s summit to find satisfaction. Sometimes a volcano is best viewed from below, with one’s eyes to the skies in gratitude.” To see more photos from my travels, follow me .

20/12/2019

by SanDisk #
A night view of the skyscrapers in the middle of the Central District of Hong Kong.
The lights behind the windows have always made me fantasize. Thousands of stories are there. Every city is a universe of memories and vicissitudes.

15/11/2019

by SanDisk # Rwanda. A picture of Muhoza, a Silverback Gorilla living in the forest of the Volcanoes National Park.
After a dramatic decline in numbers following their scientific discovery in 1902, dedicated conservation initiatives have ensured that mountain gorilla numbers are now slowly increasing. Still, they continue to face major threats from habitat loss and poaching.
Shooting among this gorilla family has been an unforgettable moment in my life.
The most remarkable thing about gorillas is perhaps the most obvious: They are so much like us. Gorillas share 98 percent of our DNA.
What is the most intense experience you have ever had in the wilderness?

16/10/2019

by SanDisk # Mount Ijen in East Java, Indonesia, is an active volcano that contains an acidic lake and a sulfur mine. Deep in the crater, in air heavy with toxic gases, miners extract chunks of sulfur. They carry 150- to 200-pound loads to the rim and then down the mountain to sell to factories, which use sulfur in the manufacture of things like cosmetics and sugar. In this picture, Sunarto, 41 years old, carries a load of sulfur out of the crater. For my project “Beyond” I’m documenting how people live and work in extreme environments, because that may teach us how to adapt to a changing planet.

12/09/2019

by SanDisk # The Danakil depression is located in the northern part of Ethiopia, in the so called “Afar’s Triangle”, which takes its name from the nomadic people who live there. It is a region close to the border area among Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
This is a land made of fire, salt and lava, close to the Rift Valley.
This land can be considered a sort of a “Ghost Ocean”. It is from the retreat of the sea, evaporated twenty thousand years ago, that the Danakil has gained its peculiarity: it is a spread of evaporitic rocks that gives rise to the Great Plain of Salt - a desert which stretches for about 6 hundred kilometers. Here arrive, from the Ethiopian plateau, caravans of dromedaries and mules to load the slabs salt.
What’s the toughest terrain you have experienced?

23/08/2019

The Amazon Rainforest is burning. 73,000 fires have been recorded already this year - that’s 70% more than in 2018.
Fires in the Amazon have been linked to deforestation, which has surged in recent months.
This is a global crisis that cannot be ignored.
The Amazon Rainforest produces 20% of the world’s oxygen and contains 140 billion tonnes of carbon locked up in its plants and trees.
If this vital ecosystem continues to burn, the implications for life on Earth will be astronomical. ()

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