Biography
Cristian Castelnuovo born in 1977, is an award winning photographer and video maker. He graduated, MA Photographic Arts, at Westminster University and has undertaken photographic and video works worldwide in the fields of Art, Fashion, Politics and Architecture. One of his photographs was sold at Sotheby's auction in Pac Milan in 2015. Cristian Castelnuovo has worked with many contemporary artists and architects, Maurizio Cattelan, Subodh Gupta and Norman Foster to mention some. In 2003 he joined Grazia Neri agency. In 2006 he worked for the National Press Agency Ansa and won the Celeste Art Price. In 2007 he was a weekly contributing editor for Corriere della Sera, working
for Mediaset and other Tv broadcasters. Throughout his professional career to date, he has around 50 assigned cover stories and over 300 magazines assignments. He has participated in more than 30 international
art shows and fairs. In 2009 he exhibited at ArteLaguna Art in Giardini della Biennale in Venice, in 2012 he privately met and photo- graphed the Dalai Lama, this work received an honorable mention at the IPA International Photographic Awards. In 2013 he photo- graphed exclusively and for the first time the Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta at work in Rome. Since 2014 he stared working with Angelsign Studio as a D.o.p. In 2014 he joined Cesura a group of war photojournalists. In 2015 he was invited to show at Mumbai's Focus Photography International Festival.
In 2016 he published the monographic book on artist Lodovica Comello, translated in different languages and published by Rizzoli. He has also created, working as a production company, visual advertising for TV satellite broadcaster Sky. He keeps photographing around the world.
