lorenzopoli photography

SHORT BIO

1976 Born, Rome, Italy
2006 – 2020 London, United Kingdom
2020 – 2021 Highlands of Scotland, United Kingdom
2021 – 2022 Dolomites (Italy), Norway, `Netherlands, Scotland
2023 – present Argentina, Uruguay, Antartica

Born in Italy in 1976, Lorenzo Poli is a Photographer and an Architectural Engineer. He moved to the United Kingdom in 2006, where he worked as an Architect for more than 15 years, in London and around the world on projects by Jean Nouvel and Norman Foster. During his long career at Norman Foster, Lorenzo focused on architectural R&D, implementing sustainable strategies for clients such as Apple, been granted several patents. 

He has been cultivating his deep passion for Nature and Photography throughout his life, while visiting untamed natural environments in Chile, Patagonia, Namibia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Greenland, Lapland, and Iceland, amongst others. He travels to such destination with any means of transport including hiking expeditions, nordic ski, kayaks, campervans, overland vehicles, small airplanes, sail and fishermen boats and any other form of local transport.  Since the end of 2020, he moved to the Highlands, living and working remotely during the lockdown in a campervan: this allowed him to be in deeper contact with the wilderness. He has plans to build his own overland vehicle for exploring remote locations in the Euro-Asiatic Continent, Africa and North America. Recently he has developed a great fascination for the polar world while documenting the changes of the glacial world.

Since 2021, Lorenzo has embraced full-time photography as a tool for creating environmental awareness through the rediscovery of the spiritual dimension of Nature. Since his youth, he combines a passion for oriental cultures and religions: his regular practice of yoga has taken him to India on several occasions. A sort of atmospheric minimalism permeates his artistic production: a somewhat dark emotional state that exudes from the work, imbuing his series of images with a surreal and supernatural sensibility.

Lorenzo's main focus is to create Nature photography which inspires and promotes  Environmental and Planet Earth awareness. His work has been awarded in the last year with several international recognitions, including the 2022 Sony World Photo Award in the Landscape Professional Category. His photographic series “Life on Earth”, according to the Sony SWPA judges, ’delves into the ethereal magic of nature and the mysterious beauty of an untamed world…”.