Italy Our Tours are Urban Adventures!
• Discover and experience a city through the eyes of a local
photographer.
• Encourage the observation of new viewpoints and interesting
details which might easily be overlooked.
• To improve photography technique.
• To have a more interesting experience and involvement when
visiting a city.
• Have fun
About the photographers
Steve Bisgrove
Steve Bisgrove is originally from the UK, has lived in
Rome for more than 20 years and knows the city and its secrets
intimately. Besides being an excellent
photographer and qualified tour guide, he is very personable and a
delight to be with. Here is some of Steve’s
background:
Between 1982 and 1984 he worked as
a photographic assistant for two top London advertising
photographers as well as working freelance for a number of other
photographers in London. Setting up in his own right in the mid eighties he has
worked for various advertising agencies, design groups and magazines
in London, Milan and Rome. These
include among the magazines, Elle Decoration and Country Life in
London; Casa Vogue, Amica and Spazio Casa in Milan, as well as
having articles and photos published in the magazines “Italy”
and “Italia” in the United Kingdom.
He has shot advertising campaigns
for Saatchi & Saatchi in Rome, a scooter in Rome’s Trevi
Fountain for BBDO of Milan, and other campaigns for Young and
Rubicam, TBWA and McCann Erickson in Rome.
He has taught photography at the European Institute of
Design in Rome and also at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia.
His photographs have been recognized in various
competitions. In
the Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris he was awarded a third prize
in 2007 in his chosen category for the series of Rome shops, and in
2008 received and Honorable Mention for a series of photographs of a
person undergoing major surgery at the CTO hospital in Rome.
One of his pictures was selected for the 2007 Royal
Photographic Society’s International Print Exhibition and another
was selected in the 2005 Association of Photographers’ (AoP) Open
competition.
His photographs are available through a number of online agencies including Alamy, Arcangel Images, Writer Pictures and Rex Features.
Luca della Vale
Luca is an
American born in Rome. While much of his work involves
architectural, interiors, and advertising still-life and product
photography, his greatest love is reportage. His joy is to be always
with his camera, ready to make an exciting image, wherever he may
find himself. Luca began his work as an assistant to a fashion
photographer Tony Lattari in New York City. He was the leading
photographer for an art catalogue of a prestigious painter Chris
Davis inside the Vittoriano – Rome’s monument to the Unknown
Soldier. He lived and worked in China for several years, working for
an Italian and Chinese photo agency Iber-press and Featurechina, and
has photographed for UNESCO at the Yunnan Dam on the Hu Tiao Xia
gorge, as well as other places in China.
He likes telling real stories that people everywhere can relate.
Luca lives in Rome, the Eternal City, which is an unending
opportunity for great imagery.
