About the Photographer
Antonella Cunsolo, born in Sicily in 1974, is a photographer with a background in psychology, psychotherapy, and phototherapy. Her passion for photography began in childhood, inspired by her father’s love of capturing her in portraits. She first explored landscape photography before turning to portraiture, studying with Italian and international masters such as Giovanni Gastel and Mustafa Sabbagh. She later specialized in fashion photography at the Kaverdash Academy in Milan.
Her work moves along the boundary between art and psychology. Antonella Cunsolo is the author of the books Io non muoio and Noi siamo bellezza, both conceived as acts of love toward people who often feel unseen—emotional journeys in which the photographic gaze becomes a gesture of care, testimony, and truth. Through a conceptual language, she develops projects that give form to complex themes such as mental distress, anxiety, depression, dissociation, eating disorders, and trauma. Each photograph emerges from a process of listening and collaboration, with subjects becoming co-authors of the images.
Her work has received extensive international recognition, including distinctions from IPA, the Budapest International Photo Awards, ND Awards, Monovision Awards, BIFA, Chromatic Awards, HIPA, the Tokyo International Photo Awards, and the Fine Art Photography Awards. She has been a finalist or award recipient in numerous portrait and conceptual categories, and her photographs have been published in magazines such as Digital Photo Professional, Fotocult, Il Fotografo, and continuously on PhotoVogue since 2020.
