Andrea is a contributor photographer to The New York Times Magazine and to National Geographic.

He grew up in Milan, where he studied art and architecture. One week after his graduation, he took a flight to the Amazon Forest, following a small NGO, where he realized his first photo story. Since then, he decided to devote himself entirely to photography using it as a means for discovery and story-telling. He started traveling and worked on several photo reports, mainly in Africa, South America, and the Mediterranean area. He has worked on personal projects and assignments in more than 60 countries around the world.

His work has been published in magazines such as National Geographic, The New York Times, Newsweek, New York Magazine, The Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, GEO, and Vanity Fair.

He has exhibited and screened his photographs in a large number of personal and collective exhibitions, among which: The International Photographic Festival of Arles, the Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Visa Pour l’Image – the International Festival of Photojournalism of Perpignan, Cortona On The Move.

Andrea’s work has been recognized through several photography awards: the Canon Prize Italian Young Photographer, the Luchetta International Press Award for photography, the Yann Geffroy Award for his story “Obama Village”, the PDN photo annual for his work on the African Cinema commissioned by The New York Times Magazine, the American Photography for his work from Tokyo published by Newsweek, and the PX3 – Prix De La Photographie Paris.
He was nominated for the World Press Photo Masterclass, the Foam Award, the Prix Pictet, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, and he was among the finalists of the OjodePez Award for Human Values.

In 2017 his work from Danakil is among the winners of the PND Photo Annual, The American Photography, The Fence and is the recipient of a GOLD MEDAL – Feature Story Category – from the Society of Publication Designers.
“Danakil: Land of Salt and Fire” has also become a Virtual Reality documentary, filmed and produced for the New York Times.

His reportage “The Life and Death Shift”, produced during the first phase of the pandemic in Italy, as the cover story for the New York Times Magazine, has been awarded the Ischia International Journalism Award 2020, conferred by the Order of Italian Journalists under the high patronage of the President of the Italian Republic. First time for a photographic work.

Andrea is a Sony Global Imaging Ambassador and a Sandisk Ambassador.

A wise person once said that a man without a landscape is completely unarmed. 
I clearly remember my first travel within the Amazon Forest: the excitement of discovering a new land. That’s where the amazing power of our planet resides. 

Over the years, traveling and taking photographs have become one thing.
What made me love this job was the encounter with “the other”: other places, other human beings, other stories. The privilege of witnessing and the honor of telling them. It is a powerful human experience. It has taught me that if you want to be a better photographer, first of all, you have to be a better person.

I have studied to become a photojournalist, and my cultural and visual education comes from there. But photography does not amount to an objective recording of facts. Every shot is a subjective point of view about the world. It is documentation but also creation.
Photography is an ever-changing language. This is the reason why I feel engaged in continuous research.

In recent years, I have been working on a project focusing on the fragile and constantly evolving balance between human being and the environment. This relationship sums up every relevant challenge ahead of us, every story that deserves to be told. 
We are changing the balance of our planet. And our whole future depends on this outcome.

In the end, our work as photographers is not only about discovery or wonder. Those are simply means to reach an end. We need to constantly remember that we don’t just live on this planet. We are part of it. 

No matter how small our actions, each time we defend Nature, we save ourselves.