Ernesto Notarantonio

I was born in Rome in 1967, where I live and work.
As a child I had one thing in my head: draw.
I drew uninterruptedly on school desks, books, notebooks, paper napkins, walls, in short everywhere.
I wanted to make the cartoonist.
But then it grows and, it does, sometimes rational choices are made even if they are far from their own desires. And I graduated in Engineering.
But the passion for visual communication and image comes back in force in 2000, pushing me to study "Graphic Design and Advertising" at the IED in Rome.
In 2007, I started to study photography through a series of training experiences at Officine Fotografiche in Rome, and at the same time I attended two creative writing classes at the Omero School in Rome.
I started photographing with a digital SLR, but from now on I loved the BN film in both 35 mm and 6 × 6 format, so that my personal work is almost exclusively made in analog.
Curious and restless in nature, lover of lines and shapes, lights and shadows, I start personal research on architectures and urban landscapes, then expanded on other themes of introspective and art-related art in general.
In 2008, I also began to use Polaroid, which have become an important expression of my photography over the years, and w...

May 2026
Selected for the Longlist of the FORM Award 2026 with the portfolio "Memories of a Fabulous Beauty"

April 2026
Selected for the Longlist of the BBA Photography Prize 2026 with the portfolio "ABSTRACT POLAROIDS"

February 2026
Second place in the Annual Photography Award with the portfolio "ABSTRACT POLAROIDS", Special category: Analog / Film

February 2026
Honorable Mention in the Annual Photography Award with the triptych "Piazza del Duomo, L'Aquila", Fine Art: Collage & Effects category

August 2025
Honorable Mention and Jury Top 5 Selection in the IPA – International Photo Award with the triptych "Rosso vivo tra le vie del Grande Cretto", Analog / Film-Fine Art category

February 2024
Honorable Mention at the Annual Photography Award with the portfolio "Memories of a Fabulous Beauty," Fine Art: Experimental category

February 2024
Honorable Mention at the Annual Photography Award with the triptych "Bright Red among the Streets of the Grande Cretto," Fine Art: Places & Spaces category

September 2024
Selected for collective exhibition: “ImageNation Milan“
Fondazione Luciana Matalon - Milan

June 2024
Selected for collective exhibition: “SALON DES BEAUX ARTS 2024“
Orangerie du Sénat – Paris

November 2023
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