Cosimo Barletta - Mayda Mason

As Award winning photographers, Cosimo & Mayda, from Italy, have a very different background.

Cosimo was born in 1978, in Italy in a small town on Lake Como, not far from Switzerland.
Then moved to the north-east on the island of Grado, in the upper Adriatic.
He discovered photography as a child: at the age of 7 He boughts his first compact camera.
He studied electronics but his passion was to create images!
Cgi in the beginning and then photo compositing.

Today He is a fine art photographer specialized mainly in food and photo retouching.

Mayda was born in 1978, in Italy near Lignano Sabbiadoro in the upper Adriatic Sea.
At the age of 7 she wanted a kitten and played with her dolls. SheI started painting colorful landscapes at 10.

Today she is a photographer specialized in conceptual photo!

they read a lot because life is made not only experience but also knowledge.
Lot of knowledge!
We also like new challenges and good red wine!

their work has been published by BBC, Talk Talk, Digital Camera World, Royal Photographic Society, FineDining Lovers, Italian Food Academy, Camera Jabber, Gambero Rosso, The Sun, La Vanguardia, Digitalrev, Dissapore and in magazines such as Australian Camera, Prophoto, etc…

AWARD:

World Photographic Cup 2020 - member of Team Italy - category Commercial
World Photographic Cup 2020 member Team Italy - category Illustrazione/Arte Digitale
BIFA 2019 – Winner in Advertising 1st Place
BIFA 2019 – Winner in Advertising : Food Gold
BIFA 2019 – Winner in Advertising : Food Bronze
IPA 2019 – Honorable mention in Advertising : Conceptual
IPA 2019 – Honorable mention in Fine Art : Still Life
One Eyeland World TOP 10’s Fine Art Photographers 2019 – Italy RANK #1
One Eyeland World TOP 10’s Fine Art Photographers 2019 – Still Life: Silver
One Eyeland World TOP 10’s Fine Art Photographers 2019 – Still Life: Finalist
One Eyeland World TOP 10’s Fine Art Photographers 2019 – Conceptual: Silver
One Eyeland World TOP 10’s Fine Art Photographers 2019 – Conceptual: Bronze
MIFA 2019 – Winner in Advertising 2nd Place
MIFA 2019 – Winner in Advertising : Food 1st Place
MIFA 2019 – Winner in Advertising : Food 3rd Place
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2019 – Production Paradise Previously Published – 1st Place
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2019 – Production Paradise Previously Published – 3rd Place
Umbra Awards 2018 – Advertising Product Category – 1st Place
Umbra Awards 2018 – Fine Art St...

WINTER SEA – Il mare d’inverno – Jesolo (VE) (8/12 2019 – 6/01 2020)
Photo North Festival – Harrogate Convention Centre (30/11 – 2/12 2019)
BIFA – HybridArt Space Gallery – Budapest (26/11 – 3/12 2019)
WEX UK – London (01 – 31/08 2019)
MIFA – Moscow Photocenter (19 – 23/06 2019)
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2019 – Mall Galleries, London (01 – 05/05 2019)
“Attraverso le Pieghe del Tempo” – Photogem Exhitibion, Forte Sangallo di Nettuno (19 – 31/08 2014)
“La comunicazione” – Cinema Cristallo, Grado (2012)
“La comunicazione in tutte le sue espressioni” – Kulturni Center Bratuz, Gorizia (2012)
“Treviso che non c’è” – Palazzo Scotti, Treviso (17/12/2011 – 08/01/2012)
“Countdown Blu” – Torri D’Europa, Trieste (22/11 – 05/12/2010)
“Sentieri Natura 2009” – Forte di Osoppo (23/01 – 07/02/2010)