ABOUT LUCA
Luca Tamagnini was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and lives and works in Rome, Italy. Since the 1990s he has dedicated much of his work to capturing the Italian coastal landscape, building on his professional experience in architectural, cultural heritage, and travel photography.
A prolific publisher of books, he has used the medium to draw attention to the safeguarding of coastlines from continued commercial exploitation and environmental erosion. These include a series of four volumes in collaboration with Folco Quilici titled “The Seas of Italy” (Olmo Ed. 1991), a series of 14 volumes on Italian protected seas in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of the Environment (Photoatlante, 2002-2010), and “Sardinia Coastal Landscape“ (Photoatlante, 2010).
His work has been exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale within the Italian Pavilion. He was also the recipient of the 2013 Mare Nostrum Awards, which was awarded to him by Mimmo Jodice. His most recent publication “Italia Paesaggio Costiero” was published in 2018 and features a preface by Italian art historian and photographer Italo Zannier (Photoatlante, 2018).
“They are the last sentinels guarding a shattered Italian coastal landscape, attacked by concrete. Their images resist as identity totems despite everything”