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Davide Scagliola: born in Turin on the 25th
April, 1967.
Straight
after high-school he starts writing music reviews and local news for various
Italian newspapers before discovering photography and travelling. He becomes
a professional journalist in 1989. At 20 he moves to Bangkok for a few
months. He lives in London, Hong Kong and New York for a while and starts contributing
to some magazines specialised in geography and tourism.
Other
collaborations are born with Atlante, Gente Viaggi, La Stampa, Repubblica
and various women’s magazines, up until the meeting with Gulliver, an
Italian monthly magazine dealing with travel reportage with whom he carries
out special services from the most remote regions on the planet: Kirghigistan,
Mongolia, Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, India, Australia, South
America, Scandinavia, Yemen, the Caribbean.
He
soon specialises in stories about
sea, nature and adventure. A trip in the United States with a Cessna in
1999, in order to photograph the national parks of south-west America from
above, marks the start of a new passion: aerial photography. For several
years he writes and photographs from plane windows, amongst clouds and
spectacular panoramas: he photographs savannahs, deserts and veldts, even
crossing the whole African continent, from Cape Town to Cairo and the
west Australia's coast from Perth to Darwin
He
is one of the founder members of "ParalleloZero", an international
photo agency born in 2007 that distributes his and other 3 italian
photojournalists' reportages in the whole world.
Up to today he
has visited more than 130 countries.

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