Country: France 🇫🇷
Donato Lioce is an Italian Engineer and Photographer who was born in Foggia, Puglia, Italy. He works and lives in France since 2013.
Even though he is passionate about photography since adolescence, the beautiful landscapes of Provence and the purest skies he experienced while living in the countryside and travelling to carefully selected locations, fueled his practice of landscape photography and astrophotography, which he practices constantly since several years now.
His photography is mostly concentrated on what he calls ‘nightscapes’ or ‘astro-landscapes’, combining his lifelong passions: astronomy and photography. Celestial and terrestrial objects are portrayed together: the viewer is immersed in scenarios which go back to where the humanity could admire skies which are harder and harder to find, but that are still there. The sky becomes closer to the observer, the observer becomes part of the sky.
Very soon his photography becomes an artistic way to communicate the beauties of our planet and beyond.
It is often said that the life on Earth (and the Earth itself actually) came from the space, came from the sky: in his photography Donato tries to minimize the distance between the Earth and the sky, between the humanity and the stars. With careful planning, interesting foreground objects are photographed in a way which we are not so used to see, i. e. during the night. Those locations, which are often crowded or sometimes not even noted by people, become surrounded by a magic atmosphere, become very quite and shine of a different beauty which we would not image.
He has been featured by the Unites States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), Universities Space Research Association, and relevant international magazine, sites and pages like Tähdet ja avaruus, The World at Night, Space Weather, etc.. Some of his work has been exposed in Italy, France and UK (festival and exhibitions). He has been finalist at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 (by Royal Greenwich Museum) and shortlisted in several international photography competitions.
Even though he is passionate about photography since adolescence, the beautiful landscapes of Provence and the purest skies he experienced while living in the countryside and travelling to carefully selected locations, fueled his practice of landscape photography and astrophotography, which he practices constantly since several years now.
His photography is mostly concentrated on what he calls ‘nightscapes’ or ‘astro-landscapes’, combining his lifelong passions: astronomy and photography. Celestial and terrestrial objects are portrayed together: the viewer is immersed in scenarios which go back to where the humanity could admire skies which are harder and harder to find, but that are still there. The sky becomes closer to the observer, the observer becomes part of the sky.
Very soon his photography becomes an artistic way to communicate the beauties of our planet and beyond.
It is often said that the life on Earth (and the Earth itself actually) came from the space, came from the sky: in his photography Donato tries to minimize the distance between the Earth and the sky, between the humanity and the stars. With careful planning, interesting foreground objects are photographed in a way which we are not so used to see, i. e. during the night. Those locations, which are often crowded or sometimes not even noted by people, become surrounded by a magic atmosphere, become very quite and shine of a different beauty which we would not image.
He has been featured by the Unites States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), Universities Space Research Association, and relevant international magazine, sites and pages like Tähdet ja avaruus, The World at Night, Space Weather, etc.. Some of his work has been exposed in Italy, France and UK (festival and exhibitions). He has been finalist at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 (by Royal Greenwich Museum) and shortlisted in several international photography competitions.