Simone Padovani
Photographer
AWAKENING
Venice, VE, Italia
I am an Italian professional Photographer, English, Spanish and Portuguese speaking, based in Venice for the news, commercial and editorial market. I also make portraits and Photovoice social projects. I tend to work all over the world. I have experience working in many different types of environment and I have a relaxed yet focused style which helps in producing the right look for your article, campaign or book.
Currently, I am a contributor for Getty Images with the collective Awakening, and I work with major international magazines such as The New Yorker, The Guardian, Times, El Pais, Internazionale, Der Spiegel and so on. I have been published in various national and international journals.
I won two awards for FIOF Italian photography and I have been selected by National Geographic in its international photo contest, in 2010 and 2011.
My work is being published on a regular basis internationally on a variety of newspapers, magazines, and books. Recent customers include: LA Design, Sunday Times, Times, BBC, National Geographic Italia, Internazionale, Huffington Post, Irish Time, Vogue, Guardian, Vanity Fair, New York Times, HOLA, The Scotsman, The Herald, Matin, Hello, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, MSN, The Independent, Newsweek, Metro.
I worked for major companies as Generali Group, OMEGA, Audemas Piquet, AirBnb, Jaguar, Range Rover, Nikon, Republic of San Marino, Università degli Studi di Padova, La Sorbonne (France), David Chipperfield, Mark Bradford, Officine Italiane, Tre Mercanti, Casinò di Venezia.
Born in Schio (VI) in 1981. Professional photographer since 2007, after graduating in Psychology at the University of Padua, with whom I still collaborate in research and teaching of a technique that combines photography and community psychology, called Photovoice, and I am the founder of Photovoice Italia . With this technique, it is possible to empower the lives of people using photography.
I live in Venice, my beautiful city

2011 - Gold at Fiof Award, 2011 - Bronze at Fiof Award
- Advertising
- Breaking news
- Editorial
- Environment
- Events
- Interview
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Video capture
- English
- Spanish
- Italian
- Portuguese