Fernando Famiani ^©  

(1965)

Mega nocturnal eruption of Etna taken from San Teodoro.

My name is Fernando Famiani, I am 57 years old and I live in a small town in the Province of Messina which is called San Teodoro and is immersed in the beautiful scenery of the Nebrodi Park at 1,150 meters above sea level. My journey as a photographer began as a child when I took my first photos with the cameras with the built-in roll. I have always been attracted by landscape photos living in a very panoramic place and above all by Etna which fascinated me since I was a child for the stories of myths and legends that were told to us at school and by grandparents. Stories of Giants, stories of Gods who lived inside the volcano and forged divine weapons. The leap in quality towards a more professional photo takes place after a photography course organized by the Ente quasi cui lavoro. From that moment he begins to have more mastery and I read and study and take courses to improve my photography. With the advent of social media, almost as a game, I start posting some photos and immediately these go viral, appreciations flock from different latitudes of the globe.  I begin to send my photos to some national and international competitions, a way to compete with photographic art and be evaluated by competent judges. These are the results over the years

      2016 Magnum Photography Award Finalist(competition which sees the participation of thousands of photographers from 134 countries around the world)

       Honorable Mention at ND Awards 2016(Neutral Density Photography Awards),

< span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">      Honorable mention at the Paris Photography Grand Prix in 2016,

      Second place in Landscape category in 2017 at TIFA (Tokyo International Photo Award);

      Third place in the Landscape category in 2017 at MIFA (Moscow International Foto Award);

      Honorable mention at the International PhotographyAwards 2021;

      Top 100 in the Landscape and Reportage categories at the International Photography Awards in 2022 .

My photos are also purchased by various agencies and are published in national and international magazines

In 2019, Clementoni bought a photo of Etna from me to make a 1000-piece puzzle that was very successful and reprinted several times.