HISTORY AND PORTRAIT OF A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
ABOUT ITALIAN WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER NINO LOMBARDO
Non-profit initiatives, publications, photographic exhibitions: the professional career of the internationally recognized Sicilian photographer through his personal experiences, collaborations, associations and awards.
Welcome to my website,
I'm Nino Lombardo, wedding photographer since the beginning of my career.
Three of my fundamental summits in my life: family, work, travel.
I love my Sicily, the wind that characterizes Trapani, the sun and the sea. I recognize that I am lucky to photograph happy people on unforgettable days. Mine is an important responsibility: to talk about marriage with a photo shoot where you have to capture the unrepeatable moment of a unique day in life.
The style I use is that journalistic photo, of reportage, a style much appreciated, especially by fans of good photography. For some years now I have been receiving great stimuli from entering the most important world trade associations and from international weddings that take me away from my Sicily and make me travel to other cities, other nations, other cultures. Because I don't only look at the lens, but always ahead: my photographic training is constantly evolving.
My experience, how about Italian wedding photographer, began in the 1980s and in 1997 I opened Trapani, my Photographic Studio, on the coast of western Sicily.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER FOR WEDDINGS IN SICILY
More and more destination weddings in Sicily and in the small Aeolian Islands, Egadi, Pantelleria and Lampedusa. I have photographic stories of weddings and engagement all over Sicily. In Agrigento, Palermo, Trapani, Sciacca, Capaci, Marsala, San Vito Lo Capo, Cianciana, Bivona, Photographer for Wedding in Castelmola, Segesta, Marzamemi, Piazza Armerina, Egadi Islands, Cefalù, Modica, Taormina, Menfi, Wedding Photographer for Photoshoot in Scopello, Castellammare del Golfo … I’m used to to travel in Italy and around the world to create wedding photo shoots that portray new landscapes and emotions.
MY REPORTAGE OF WEDDING IN ITALY
I don’t limit myself to my Sicily. I made wedding photo shoots in Liguria in Camogli; in the Veneto region of Venice; in Lombardy, Milan, Pavia, Cernobbio on Lake Como; in Emilia Romagna in Reggio nell’Emilia; in Chieti in Abruzzo; in Piedmont on the Island of San Giulio in Lake Orta.
MY WEDDING REPORTAGES IN THE WORLD
Weddings all over the world are becoming more and more frequent. For example, I was in India in New Delhi for a Hindu wedding photo shoot. A civil wedding photo shoot in Amsterdam, the Netherlands at the luxurious The Grand Sofitel Legend. Also in France I photographed a beautiful couple in love in Paris. I have photographed weddings of various cultures and with various rituals. In the Municipality with a civil ceremony, by the sea, by the lake or in a castle. Religious weddings, in church with Catholic, Anglican, Evangelical, mixed European and Persian rites, Hindu rite, Protestant rite.
A biography of weddings photographed in many places, a biography that I love to enrich with splendid reportages for unique weddings in spectacular places.
MY PROFESSIONAL PATH
Awards, publications, exhibitions tell of a professional life dedicated almost exclusively to wedding reportage.
Year 2022 - The national portal Matrimonio.com confirms me "Recommended Gold 2021". For several years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 he awards me Wedding Award on wedding photo shoots, based on the positive reviews received by the bride and groom.
In 2020 I was admitted to World's Best Wedding Photos, an important and highly selected group of the best wedding photographers in the world, created and directed by the wonderful Blair de Laubenfels.
In 2021 I am again among the TOP 100 best photographers according to the WPJA judges - In fact from 2017 to 2020 I am awarded 5 global titles. 2020 TOP 100 AG and WPJA photographer. 2019 puts me in its TOP 100 but this year as AG Artistic Guild. In 2017 and 2018 the WPJA Wedding PhotoJournalist association included me in its TOP 100 best wedding photographers in the world.
In 2017 the same association had included me in the list of the 100 best wedding photographers in the world. In 2018 I joined the Luxury and Exclusive Weddings portal 5StarWedding of which I am an active member today with my own personal page.
In 2017 I joined the prestigious WEP World Elite Photographer association, an international project that includes the best photographers in the world. The aim of WEP World Elite Photographer is to pursue excellence in professional wedding photography around the world, promoting photographers deserving of this excellence, recognizing the artistic, technical and emotional talent of photographic services.
In 2013 I was selected by two international associations: WPS Wedding Photographers Select with "The best photographer select" and BOWP Best Of Wedding Photography, a very select circle of world photographers specialized in wedding reportage. BOWP offered me a personal Best of Wedding directory and the exclusive opportunity to publish reports in the international blog of the best weddings in the world.
In 2012 I joined FEARLESS, a directory of the best wedding photographers.
Since 2011 I have been admitted to the international association of wedding photojournalists, WPJA Wedding PhotoJournalist Association. With this association I have won several international wedding and engagement photography contests, with the Wedding and Diamond Awards.
INITIATIVES NO-PROFIT AND COLLABORATIONS
“We, little protagonists”. I created this volume for charity, the proceeds were in fact donated to
Vincentian Volunteer Team of Trapani. I immersed myself in photographing children in a nursery school, managing to become almost one of them and capture their daily spontaneity. Children who helped other children. The photographs are accompanied by texts written by children and parents.
“A click of black and white”. Photographic competition conceived and realized with Gaspare Grammatico. The winners were the protagonists of 3 calendars whose proceeds were used for the remote adoption of 3 Madagascar children through the association “Trapani for the third world non-profit organization”.
“Lo Scatto de L’Aquila”. Initiative realized with Gaspare Grammatico, Roberto Grillo and Marianna Santoni in collaboration with Nital, Nikon life, in favor of the Aquila fellow photographers who suffered the earthquake. It was a singular non-profit educational event that took place in L’Aquila on January 24th and April 11th 2010, to help photographers of the earthquake-stricken city with donations and equipment and with the creation of “Lo Spazio del Ricordo” a project to testify and not forget what happened.
Collaborations
Since 2016 I am the only photographer in Sicily for Flytographer, international agency for travelers looking for photographers for engagement, marriage proposal and vacation photos. Since 2006 to 2012 they are an integral part of Marianna Santoni’s team. I took care of all the relations with the sponsors and the logistics of many courses, events and workshops. Now I work with Marianna especially in the field of photo shoots. Together with Gaspare Grammatico I designed many of the most innovative training events and projects carried out by the entire team in those years.
The biography and the professional path tell the way about Italian Wedding Photographer from the beginning of his career to today.
An all-round artist, able to combine the photographic tradition with cutting-edge printing and post-production techniques, Nino reveals the magic of landscapes not only in Sicily but in every place, as well as the deepest feelings of marriages. His works are collected in publications and exhibitions, among which we mention the volume dedicated to the marriage "Reportage of a wedding city".
PUBLICATIONS
Important in retracing the biography and professional career of Nino Lombardo, about Italian Wedding Photographer and other... the newspapers that have talked about him:
• ELLE Spose, the Italian magazine par excellence in the wedding sector, wrote articles in the magazine and on social profiles in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 with Nino's wedding photographs. FOTONOTIZIARIO, with a national editorial about the best wedding photographers. NAVAL ART for an article on wedding photo shoots between sea and salt. WEDDING WONDERLAND Blog for an article on photo sessions, before the wedding ... Engagement Photo Session; the WEDDBOOK portal for an article on themed weddings. NITAL at Nikon School for a non-profit initiative on the L'Aquila earthquake. ZANKYOU for an article on selfies in wedding photographs. PERFECT VENUE interviewed Nino Lombardo to ask for advice on "How to choose the best wedding photographer". The international magazine "Wedding on The Way" has published the photographs of the wedding in Cernobbio made by Nino for an article on Villa Pizzo.
Other photographs by Nino published.
"The Madonna of Trapani and its Sanctuary", 2011. Volume dedicated to the history of the Sanctuary and to Maria S.S. of Trapani on the occasion of the centenary of the Parish. Created by Prof. Vincenzo Scuderi.
"Bulgarella Costruzioni", 2009. From Sicily to Tuscany ... history / catalog of the works created by Bulgarella Costruzioni. "La città sognata"... The city dreamed of, 2007. Catalog of the exhibition held from 9 to 22 June 2007. Order of the Architects of Trapani. Theme: the city of Trapani seen through the eyes of Nino Preface by Alessandra Infranca.
"Noi, piccoli protagonisti"... We, little protagonists, 2003. Pro Vincenziane charity project.
"Emozioni di lici ed ombre... reportage di una città a nozze"... Emotions of light and shadow reportage of a wedding city, 2001. Highly evocative book on the emotions of wedding ceremonies.
"Papa Giovanni Paolo II" John Paul II on a visit to Erice-City of Science at the Scientific Culture Center Ettore Majorana, 1993. Image became a symbol of the Scientific Culture Center Ettore Majorana di Erice. Papa John Paul II presiding with prestigious scientists. Pictures diary of the meeting of Pope Wojtyla with the Scientists at the Scientific Culture Center Ettore Majorana of Erice, represented by the illustrious Prof. Antonino Zichichi.
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS
From Milan to San Francisco. Telling my land with very personal and unpublished traits, I brought the emotions of Sicily into the world. Briny scent, intense colors, seascapes: in my photos I reinterpreted the nature of my Sicily. And then the religious traditions, the secular constructions, the weddings and the common faces are the subjects of my exhibitions, in which I collect the shots of my numerous photographic reports.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS: 2022 March,3 up to April,8 "Processioni" Lombardo's Studio Trapani • 2012 21/23 September, Trapani "All you need is love" - Piazza ex Pesce Market • 2011 14/30 October, Trapani "Report of a wedding city" • 2008 23/27 April, Modica "The city dreamed ", Palace of Culture of Modica • 2007 9/22 June, Trapani" The city dreamed "- Order of architects • 2003 25/30 June, Trapani" We, little protagonists "- Church of St. Albert
2003 2/31 January, Trapani “Mediterranean” • 2002 19/31 March, Marsala - Trapani “Between faith and tradition. The streets of the Sacred ", S. Peter Monumental Complex, under the patronage of the Municipality of Marsala • 2002 1/30 July, Marsala" Emotions of lights and shadows, reportage of a wedding city ", Erice - La Salerniana Civic Art Gallery Contemporanea - Erice at La Salerniana, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art • 2002 "Emotions of lights and shadows, reportage of a wedding city", Orvieto inside Orvieto photography • 2001 10-12 / 6-01 "Emotions of lights and shadows, reportage of a wedding city ", Trapani • 2001 7/22 April" Between faith and tradition. The streets of the Sacred ", Trapani
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS: 2012 "Japan Magnitude 9.0 ... with these eyes", Trapani, Studio Lombardo • 2006 "Fine art color collection" Milan, Hype Gallery • 2005 "Trapani city of sailing" San Francisco, Italian-American Museum • 2005 "End art color collection "Trapani, the L'Affresco gallery • 2004" Fine art color collection "Milan, Postart gallery
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS: Trapani Nino Lombardo Gallery • San Francisco Italian-American Museum
I love the technique of printing on canvas: I find it perfect to transfer the transience of an image onto an eternal support. It is a technique I have been using since 1999 for my prints, which transform a photograph into an author's picture.
I like to "read" every event and place in a personal way: weddings, sporting and religious events, panoramic views, sunsets, the sea.
