Collective Exhibition
2023 - SCHIENE, Portrait Hellerau Award, Technische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany
2013 - ADAM, Galleria Zero Uno “Presenze Assenze”, Gravina in Puglia, Italy
Press
2019 - The Opéra Magazine Vol. VIII
2018 - Fallen, Self-publishing
2016 - The Opéera Magazine Vol. V
© 2022 Nicola Petrara
"I speak little. I watch a lot. And I'm happy only when I'm naked."
Born in 1974 in Altamura (Italy), where he lives and his studio is based.
Since 1995 he has embarked on a personal self-taught path that leads him to experiment first with drawing and painting and then with theater, with workshops on body language.
In 2003 he rediscovers photography and consolidates his knowledge through targeted paths. He achieves the Master in Fashion Photography in Milan; he attends several workshops on portrait and paths on figure and body photography. At the same time he consolidates his knowledge of digital post production and in the last period of Fine Art printing processes and hybrid interventions on images. In 2008 he opens his own studio, working for companies, brands, agencies and individuals. This is accompanied by a personal search for him. Focused on a process of subtraction, his photography always has the human being as its subject, the revelation as an act of liberation and the constant search for the concept of beauty. He has at heart the theme of the relationship between “image and memory” and the portrait, understood as an encounter between two people.
In 2018 he published Fallen, his first self-publishing book with a limited edition. He is he co-founder of PAF - Piccola Accademia di Fotografia of which he is now the director. He regularly conducts courses, workshops and meetings on photography.
Award and Grants
2024
NON MI CHIAMO EVA Winner First Place Silvia Agus contest ANFM, Matera, Italy
Collective Exhibition
2023
SCHIENE, Portrait Hellerau Award, Technische Sammlunge, Dresden, Germany
2021
STUDIO IN ROSSO, Liber Festival, Altamura, Italy
2013
ADAM, Galleria Zero Uno, “Presenze/Assenze”, Gravina in Puglia, Italy
Press
2023
The Opéra Phoenix Issue, Kerber
2020
Fotografia a due tempi - Isozero LAB, Silvana Editoriale
2019
The Opéra Magazine Vol. VIII, Kerber
2018
Fallen, self-publishing book
2016
The Opéra Magazine Vol. V, Kerber