Federico Miccioni is a highly regarded artist, specialized in Fine Art photography, renowned for his technical and stylistic qualities both in Italy and abroad. He was born in Perugia in 1976 and fell in love with photography at the young age of 10. Study photographic art in Northern Ireland at Queen’s University Belfast, he trained, and subsequently collaborated for several years, together with the world-famous photographer Jim Moreland FBIPP in the 90s studying particular black and white printing techniques in the darkroom. Back in Italy, he opened his own artistic photography studio in Perugia in 2002. He was an Album testimonial for Epoca, a MagMod ambassador and was awarded as one of the 4 best photographers in Italy in 2014 and 2015, as well as having obtained numerous national and international awards and recognitions in the various photographic associations ANFM, WPJA, FIOF and FEARLESS. “I really understood what photography was for me during the years I spent in Ireland: it is not only a professional and continuous research, but it is also a philosophy of life, a way of seeing things from a different point of view. I’ve always been attracted to this art since the age of 10 when I observed the starry sky with wonder and it wasn’t enough for me, because I wanted to ‘capture’ what I saw, I wanted to go further. It has always fascinated me to photograph nature and the works of man in all its forms such as: the beauty of nature, the perfection and power of how trees manage to grow, the majesty of the ocean and its waves, the woods, the rocks of the mountains with their incredible panoramas, the mystery that hides behind a glance, the emotions of the human being and the contrast that is created between nature and man, whether positive or negative. In fact, what I continually look for in my photography is the harmony between the two, as if my photographic art itself manages to harmonize what at first glance, in the contrast between nature and man, is not. This is what I look for in my photographs. I could say in a nutshell that my camera is the extension of my soul.”