Isabella Tabacchi
Isabella Tabacchi is an award-winning landscape photographer based in Bologna, Italy. She loves photography since her childhood but started to focus on landscape photography around 10 years ago, when she visited the moon-like landscapes in the Rosengarten mountain group in the Italian Dolomites. After that, Isabella felt her life mission is to immortalize the natural landscapes and make them alive through her pictures, expressing her emotions through the elements of nature.
Isabella Tabacchi traveled to the most remote places in the World to find different sources of inspiration and evolve her style. The countries visited by Isabella include Greenland, Madagascar, Namibia, Japan, Far East Russia, New Zealand, Chile, China, Iceland and Turkey.
Isabella Tabacchi got many accomplishments and international awards thanks to her creativity in landscape photography.
Isabella was awarded as Photographer of the Year 2020 in the Moscow International Photo Awards 2020 (MIFA) thanks to a series from the project “Kamchatka: to the abyss of the Earth”. She received the 3rd prize in the International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2020 and 2023, the most important landscape photography competition in the World.
Isabella’s work was awarded in the top 10 Annual Photos Winners in the 9th DJI Sky Pixel Annual Contest and the Aerial Photography category in the Xposure Awards 2024.
Isabella Tabacchi received the title of Hasselblad Heroine in 2021 and was part of the Grand Jury in the Hasselblad Masters 2021. Since 2018 she is in the jury of the International Epson Pano Awards.
Her work has been published and featured in The Times, Elle, House and Garden, National Geographic, Sky News, Dove, Il Corriere, The Telegraph, Digital Camera World, Adobe, Hasselblad, Daily Mail, Yahoo, Geo and many others.
Since 2017 Isabella is leading expeditions in several countries in the World and teaching photography. She is speaker in several international photo events.
Isabella Tabacchi considers her landscape photography as an art that not only immortalizes moments but has also the purpose to capture her emotions and stir feelings in people observing her works. Nature, especially a landscape, is often considered a dead and impersonal topic for photography, because it’s taken for granted that we live on an amazing planet that can be considered a form of art itself. But, a place can be more alive than anything else. The colors, the contrasts, the elements of nature arouse sensations in us and especially the memories, the events, the thoughts that make a landscape an emotions catcher.
The editing style has not the purpose to distort the reality but helps into the artistic expression of Isabella’s emotions in a landscape. Often the style and the mood within a picture is totally subconscious, Isabella doesn’t know either! But everyone can find a personal interpretation. This is the wonderful thing about art.
Exibitions:
ArtExpo Autumn Rome, Rome, 2016
Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, 2016
Blank Wall Gallery, Athens 2019
