Luca Bracali

Luca Bracali (born in Pistoia, April 12, 1965) is an Italian photographer, film maker and explorer.
Biography.
Luca Bracali (Pistoia, 12 April 1965) began his career as a photographer and reporter for sports
newspapers and as a correspondent for the Motocross World Championships, MotoGP, and later Formula 1.
During his career he has written many articles for travel, culture and tourism magazines and thirteen of his books have been published ("Storia illustrata di Pistoia", I colori del viaggio, "SOS Pianeta Terra", "A rose is a rose is a rose", "Alba Gonzales: Amor maris; i miti scolpiti", "Fantasie della Terra", "Myanmar: The true essence", "Pianeta Terra: Un mondo da salvare", L’Italia vista da Parigi, Rapa Nui. Genesi di un restauro fra storia, leggende e misteri, India. Sulle tracce di Madre Teresa di Calcutta, Il respiro della natura 1, Il respiro della natura 2). In 27 years of reportage he has travelled to 141 countries.
Luca Bracali is closely involved with environmental issues, such as the ice-melt and global warming, as can be seen from the photos he has taken in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. Through photographic projects he has collaborated with polar researchers from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and the Barneo Ice Camp, which was the starting point for a Ski Eco-Expedition to the geographic North Pole in 2009. Thanks to these Polar expeditions, broadcast on more than forty radio and television programs, he was able to become a member of APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) and subsequently has collaborated with IASC
(International Arctic Science Committee).
Since 2010 his pictures have been exhibited in museums and galleries in
Rome, Milan, Napoli, Bologna, Sofia Kiev, Odessa, Copenhagen, Höfn, Brussels, Yangon, Montreal and New York City, showing his own
particular way of conceiving a photograph - a geometric composition of saturated colours where
light plays a fundamental role. Luca Bracali is also busy in the television industry and after one year as the tv host of a travel and adventure program aired on Sky satellite, he became the director of "Easy Driver", a weekly
television program on Rai 1. Subsequently he has worked with RAI 2, especially with TG2 TG2
and Stories and with Rai 1 in two daily programs: "Uno Mattina" and "Il caffè di Rai Uno" with documentaries and services dedicated to its
explorations in documentary style, in addition to RAI 3 in "Kilimangiaro" . He is the 'author and producer of a project called Planet
Explorer, a live-video and photo tour, designed specifically for the web, which in 2017 was
the eleventh edition after Iceland, South Africa, United States, Greece, Morocco, Norway and
Vietnam, Ireland, Scotland, Switzerland and Australia.
As Professor of photography for the Lorenzo de Medici and The Darkroom in Florence, he has
taught photography courses at the Academy of Canon and then he subsequently became
"ambassador" for Fujifilm. He has received thirteen awards at international photography competitions related to photography and reportage.
He is the author of the cover of The last Thule, the latest album of Francesco Guccini and fourteen reports published by National Geographic. His most important exhibition, "Arctic under attack", will be exhibited in April 2017 in the European Parliament. Also in 2017 he became ambassador of the non-profit association "Salviamo il Pianeta". The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge (USA) gave his name to the .