Biografia

 

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.