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 yea...

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
Selected for collective exhibition: “ImageNation Paris“
Joseph Le Palais Gallery - Paris

June 2021
“PRIDE BY YOUR SIDE” - Collective
Afnakafna Gallery – Rome

June / September 2020
“PRIDE BY YOUR SIDE” - Collective
FMB Art Gallery

May 2020
“#lifeviralart“ - Collective
Lifeviralart

November 2019
“Fuori le 0” - Collective
Laboratorio Fotografico Corsetti - Rome

June 2019
“WOR - Walls of Rome” - Personal
Officine Fotografiche - Rome

January 2019
"EXIT - migrare nelle arti" - Collective
Palazzo Velli, Rome

May 2018
“WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?” - Personal
Roam Gallery - Rome

November 2014
“Valdemara” - Personal
Paratissima 10 - Turin

February/March 2014
"Rhome - sguardi e memorie migranti" - Collective
Museo di Roma - Rome

June 2013
“Tra il sogno e la realtà” - Collective
Umbria World Fest - Foligno

June 2013
“Garbatella in Bianco e Nero” - Collective
Caffè Boario - Rome

October 2012
“Tra il sogno e la realtà” - Personal
FotoLeggendo 2012
ISA - Rome

January/February 2012
“Obiettivi Obiettività” - Collective
Int...