Eolo Perfido

Born in France (Cognac, 1972), Eolo Perfido is a portrait photographer, specialized in corporate, advertising and traveling photography.

At the beginning of his career, Eolo Perfido has been honored to assist on the field photographers like Steve McCurry, Elliott Erwitt, Eugene Richards and James Nachtwey in several of their shootings in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America.

Eolo Perfido photography has been featured in magazines such as NY Times, Communication Arts, Panorama First, Vision, Vogue Russia, GQ Russia, L’Espresso, and Computer Arts and in the last ten years he worked for several international agencies and clients such as JWT, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, BBDO, Corbis, Pepsi Cola, Samsung, Ford, Opel, Kraft, Casio, Gatorade, Sky Television and Novartis.

In 2009 he was awarded the first prize of the National Association of Professional Photographers Italian Tau Visual for the creative quality of its images.

During the exhibition Photo Vernissage, held at the Manege Museum in St. Petersburg in 2010, he was awarded the Best International Photographer, with the participation of hundreds of photographers from around the world.

In 2011, the Italian magazine L’Espresso has chosen Eolo Perfido along with other 9 young Italians creatives who have been asked to tell through a picture the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy.

Eolo Perfido also follows a personal artistic journey that leads him to exhibit in numerous private galleries. Among his most successful series is definitely the photographic series Clownville, recently exhibited in a solo show at Galleria Janet Coast of Recife in Brazil during the International Circus Festival and in a personal exhibition at the Leica Gallery in Rome in 2019.

In 2016 he created with Fabio Timpanaro and Antonella Catanese a Digital Artists collective named Storm Studio, specialized in Post Production and 3D CGI.

Since 2017 he is Elinchrom Ambassador, high profile brand of flash.

As one of the resident photographers at the Leica Akademie in Italy, Eolo is also one of the best known Italian Street Photographers.

In the last 10 years Eolo developed a series of very successful international photography workshops dedicated to Portrait Photography, Travel Portraits, Street Photography and Post Production.

In 2019 he starts ExibartStreet, one of the most important web magazine about Street Photography of the world.