david salvatori

I was born in Latina, a city near Rome, on January 23rd 1970, I have a university degree in Physics and and I am currently employed in the biggest company in the world producing devices for Internet connectivity.

I inherited from my parents a passion for Sciences, visual Arts and Nature; the Sea has always been present in the most important moments of my life, but only in recent years I began to practice water sports: scuba diving arrives by coincidence in 2006, and the direct relationship with the water becomes soon a powerful channel of communication and introspection.

Today going underwater, being in the Sea, means to me becoming for a moment a part of the Sea itself, a small part of a whole which is constantly changing but at the same time in constant equilibrium.

I think the great diver Jacques Mayol wanted to express the same idea when he once said: "I have the Sea inside me. I am the Sea."

Photography becomes, a few years before start diving, the most suitable way to communicate this new phase of my life: I report my feelings through the shutter, documenting the various expressions of this equilibrium in different places and through different cultures.

From June 2009 I started partecipating with my club "Tirreno Sub Roma" to FIPSAS (Italian National Federation) Underwater Photography competitions, the first year with a compact camera and then from March 2010 with a digital SLR in a Seacam housing.

During this period, always with my wife Maria Cristina Di Palma acting by my side as model and assistant, I got great results:

- September 2009: FIPSAS Italian Underwater Photography Championships - 1st place Compact Camera category

- July 2010: Graciosa (Azores islands) International Underwater Photography Open Contest - 5th place portfolio

- October 2010: FIPSAS Italian Underwater Photography Championships - I confirmed myself at 1st place in the Compact Camera category

- October 2010: FIPSAS Italian Underwater Photography Championships - 1st place Teams category with my club-mate Stefano Proakis

- October 2010: FIPSAS Italian Underwater Photography Championships - 5th place in the digital SLR individual category

- October 2011: FIPSAS Italian Underwater Photography Championships - 3th place and best Wide Angle picture in the digital SLR individual category

All these results allowed me to be called for joining in 2011 and 2012 the FIPSAS Underwater Photography Italian National Team.

Since 2010 I also started to enter several national and international contests, obtaining good results such as:

- "MyShot" 2010: 2nd place Wide Angle category and special award for Wreck Best picture

- 4th Grand Prix FIPSAS "VI Continente": 2nd place Portfolio and "Pietro Zanobini" prize for the Contest Best Picture

- "Golden Dolphin" International PhotoFestival 2011 - 2nd place Black-and-White category

- "Deep Indonesia" 2011 International Underwater Photography Competition - Honorable Mention in the Divers Category

- DivePhotoGuide March 2011 Photo Contest - 2nd place

- Historical Diving Society Italy 2011 Underwater Photo-Video Contest: 3rd place portfolio

- DivePhotoGuide September 2011 Photo Contest - 3rd place

- 11th International Marmara UW Photo & Video Festival - Jury Special Award in Digital Macro Photography Category

- Epson Red Sea Photographer of the Month July 2011 - 1st place

- Epson Red Sea Photographer of the Year 2011 - 2nd place

- Epson Red Sea World Shoot-out 2011 - 2nd place Macro Category

- 2011 NCUPS SEA International Underwater Photo & Video Competition - Honorable Mention Advanced Wide Angle

- Pelagos 2012 International Sea Festival - 2nd place Water category and Honorable Mention Macro category

My equipment:

- Nikon D300S
- Tokina 10-17mm lens
- Nikkor 105mm lens
- Nikkor 60mm lens
- Nikkor 10-24mm lens
- Nikkor 18-55mm lens
- Seacam Housing
- Seacam Seaflash 150D

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