ABOUT
Carlo Borlenghi was born in 1956 in Bellano (Como Lake) where he started his photography carreer following the local regattas. Still young, thanks to the collaboration with the magazine “Uomo Mare Vogue”, he travelled around the world, following the most important nautical events.
Since 1983, he has photographed the America’s Cup regattas, following the endeavours of “Azzurra”. He became official photographer for the Italian America’s Cup’s campaigns:
“Italia”, Fremantle (Australia) – 1987
“Moro di Venezia”, San Diego (USA) – 1992
“Luna Rossa”, Auckland (New Zeland) – 2000 /2003 /Carlo Borlenghi was born in 1956 in Bellano (Como Lake) where he started his photography carreer following the local regattas. Still young, thanks to the collaboration with the magazine “Uomo Mare Vogue”, he travelled around the world, following the most important nautical events.
Since 1983, he has photographed the America’s Cup regattas, following the endeavours of “Azzurra”. He became official photographer for the Italian America’s Cup’s campaigns:
“Italia”, Fremantle (Australia) – 1987
“Moro di Venezia”, San Diego (USA) – 1992
“Luna Rossa”, – 2000 / 2003 /2013/2021/2024
ACM Official Photographer for 32nd America’s
“Alinghi”, Valencia (Spagna) – 2010
“BMW”, Bermuda (USA) – 2017
Since 1994 he follows Giovanni Soldini’s boats, around the world.
His specialization doesn’t limit to the sport field, but also to the shipbuilding industry (brochures, catalogues and business portraits).
In 1983 Carlo Borlenghi won the “Marian Skubin” prize for the best Sports picture published in Italy. He won for three years the “Marina di Pescara” award. In 1986, in Paris, he won the “Grand Prix Professional de la photo de Mer” In 2003 he won the Omega price for the best italian sport photographer.
In 2007 he won the price “Grand Prix de l’Image Course au Large
In 2007 a plaque from the President of the Italian Repubblic Giorgio Napolitano.
Between 2005 and 2007 he presented his images in a travel exhibition in Malmo, Trapani, Valencia, Geneva and Madrid.
In 2007 he exhibited at Space Luois Vuitton in Paris for the show ‘Winds and Sails’ dedicated to the America’s Cup.
In 2012 he exhibited again in Paris
In 2019 all his works was exhibited in Bilbao during the sailing Festival.
In 2021 he exhibited on all the Como Lake villages and in Regione Lombardia for the Moto Guzzi 100 years.
In 2022 in Bellano where he is born he exhibited the portraits of all the people leaving there.
The sailing photography has been my job and my life for more than 30 years now. Insomuch as even myself right now would find some difficulties in discerning the two things. The trick is not to do it… and so I keep on living my work and working at my life in a series (almost endless now…) of images of sails, shadows, spryes, reflections, regattas and boats.
Still now when I coming back from the sea, I’ve captured a little bit of that beauty and I can transmit it to those who were not there, thus I feel that, like the pioneers of that time I’ve given a sense to my own Sailing Photography
He made a lot of books : Regate/ Offshore annual book for a lot of years/ L’Avventura del Moro/La Sfida di Pierre Fehlmann /Giovanni Soldini/Merit cup/L’oceano di Giovanni di Soldini / Yacht Design / Yacht Portraits/Luna Rossa /Coppa America / Yachting /Details / Alinghi / About Sails / Dire Acqua / Regate nel Mondo / Big Sailing / perini Navi Cup, Vele Olimpiche/Navigando Tra I secoli/ Tra le Nuvole/The Legend goes on /America’s Cup / Scacchi/ Rosso Fuoco / Dire terra / Conchiglie/ Windsurf / Luna Rossa / Il Ritratto di Bellano /100 anni di Moto Guzzi
