NICOLA MAJOCCHI
From downhill skiing the Italian alps as a teenager to working as an assistant to legendary photographer Irving Penn in NYC, Nicola Majocchi has had a colorful career and always displayed a capacity to look at life with humour, drama and sensuality, all of it spiked by an element of risk – and his photography reflects as much. Today, Majocchi is an internationally acclaimed photographer dividing his time between New York City, Los Angeles and his native Italy. Majocchi’s images are known for their fusion of postmodern edginess and euro-romanticism. |
EXHIBITIONS:
RB&W (in motion) - Recent Solo Exhibition, Osaka Japan
Movement - just like true beauty –
can be found everywhere, as long as we keep our mind open to discover it and our eyes focused and ready to immortalize it. A magical moment is when our preparation meets the right opportunity with perfect timing. |
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exhibitions
August 2024 Group Show "Durante l'Arte" Margno, Valsassina, Italy November 2022 International Visual Arts Exhibition "SINERGIA" CETYS University, Mexico December 18-27, 2017 Solo Show “RB&W (IN MOTION)” Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan June 9-16, 2017 Group Show “OUT THERE” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA May 18, 2017 Group Show, Lucie Foundation “EXPOSED". Contact Photo Lab, Los Angeles, CA February 1994 Group Show Amnesty International “CENTOFIORI” Galleria Carla Sozzani, C.so Como 10, Milan November 1993 Solo Show ”TRANSFORMATIONS” Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel March 1993 Solo Show “PEOPLE OF TATUAPE (BRASIL)” Andrea Carrano Space, Via Della Spiga, Milan September 1992 Group Show ”TRANSFORMATIONS” East Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo clients
Nike, Versace, Reebok, Levis, New York City Ballet, Cirque du Soleil, ESPRIT, The Pulse, Boeing, Champion, Brooks Brothers, Dupont, MGM, Footlocker, Levis, Johnson&Johnson, Gilette, Neiman Marcus, Nokia, Revo, Hanes, Schwarzkopf, S.Pellegrino, Target, Toyota, Iper, Laura Biagiotti, Nerogiardini, Luisa Spagnoli, Repower, Sundek, Gallo, Carpisa, Esprit, Marina Yachting, Nine West, Enzo Angiolini, Johnny Walker. Editorial clients include Vogue Gioiello, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Grazia, Elle, Cosmo, Brides, Playboy, Glamour, Myself, Shape, Self, Women's Health, Men's Health, Uomo Vogue, Red, Maxim, Max, City, Madame and Surface. publishing credits
Co-Author on Irving Penn’s “PASSAGE: A Work Record” Published 1991 by Alfred A. Knopf, printed in five languages, Introduction by Alexander Liberman. 468 photographs and drawings, 300pp, 11 x 12.75 inches, hard cover. Credit: Co-Author Contributed on “ON THE EDGE: Images from 100 Years of Vogue” Published 1992 by Random House. Introduction by Kennedy Fraser, 296pp, 11 x 12 inches, hard cover. Credit: Image Retrieval Collaborated on photography for the book “Irving Penn Regards the Work of Issey Miyake” Published by A Bulfinch Press Book, 11 x 12.75 inches, hard cover. Credit: Photography collaboration Photo essay for book on renown artist Sylvain Tremblay Published 2007 by Opera Gallery New York, 145pp. 13 x 10.50 inches, hard cover, color and B&W photographs. Cornell Books Ltd. - Book number: 36905. Credit: Photographer "PALMAZ VINEYARDS Tradition, Terroir & Technology" Foreword by Jerry Weintraub by Nick Kolakowski and Christian Gastón Palmaz Published October 2015. 255pp, 10.25 x 13 inches, hard cover. Two-Volume Book Set. Credit: Photographer "PALMAZ VINEYARDS At The Table & Around The Fire" Words by Florencia Palmaz with food editor Kate H. Knapp Published October 2015. 255pp, 10.25 x 13 inches, hard cover. Two-Volume Book Set. Gold Medal Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards 2016 Category: Cookbook. Credit: Photographer Photo essay for book on renown artist Sylvain Tremblay "Brooklyn, Beijing, Dubai, Montreal" Published 2017 by Sylvain Tremblay, 183pp. 12 x 10.50 inches, hard cover, color and B&W photographs. Credit: Photographer book projects
Majocchi’s project is California based - “BIG SUR” an ongoing photographic essay of the breath taking part of California coast known as Big Sur, with Poems by American renown author and poet Carolyn Mary Kleefeld. Majocchi's additional project is called "WHAT IS LOVE" an eye catching and visually appealing photographic essay to catch the eye of all those who are in love, seeking love, learning to love, falling in love or even simply pondering the enigmatic nature of love. Poems by author Patricia Robertson. |
awards
January 2023 ISPWP Winter Wedding Photography Award Winner July 2021 International Rotary Club Professionalism Award March 2021 14th Annual International Color Awards. Nominee in Fine Art | Kiss 19 November 2020 Circle Foundation for the Arts Art in the time of Coronavirus & Social Distancing Awarded Finalist Certificate November 2020 15th Annual Black & White Spider Awards with: 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction in Portrait | Field worker in Mauritius Island Nominee in Fine Art | Shitting Pretty Nominee in Wildlife | Ducks In A Row March 2020 13th Annual International Color Awards. Nominated in the category of Nude January 2019 Nominee at the 13th Annual Black & White Spider Awards with: Nominee in Sport | Georgina meets Joshua ONE October 2017 12th Black & White Spider Awards. Nominated “Gracefully Fierce One” Category: Fine Art Honorable Mention: “Blind Serenity”. Category: Portrait March 4 2017 10th Annual International Color Awards Winner 1st Place/Gold. Category: Sport. “Fierce Grace” March 2017 10th Annual International Color Awards. Honorable Mention. Category: Portrait March 2017 10th Annual International Color Awards. 1st Place Outstanding Achievement in Sport. Titled: "Fierce Grace" December 2016 "PALMAZ VINEYARDS. At The Table & Around The Fire" Words by Florencia Palmaz with food editor Kate H. Knapp Photography by Nicola Majocchi. Published October 2015. Two-Volume Book Set. ISBN: 978-0-9967367-0-1. ISBN: 978-0-9967367-2-5 Gold Medal Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards 2016 Category: Cookbook June 2014 - IPA International Photography Awards - Honorable Mention in Advertising titled "The Cigar World" May 2014 - 7th Annual Photography Masters Cup - Honorable Mention in Sport titled "RED" May 2014 - 7th Annual Photography Masters Cup - Nominee in Advertising titled "Dario Franchitti" May 2012 - 5th Annual Photography Masters Cup - Nominated for Certificate of Achievement March 2009 - 4th Annual Black & White Spider Awards - Nominated Advertising Professional May 2008 - PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris - First Prize Professional Photojournalism with his project "Wronged" documenting wrongly convicted people that after spending many years behind bars, they are released because in the end their innocence was fought for - and irrevocably proven. |