LIFE AS A LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER
ISABELLA’S STORY
Isabella Tabacchi is an award winning full-time landscape photographer and influencer, traveling the World to immortalize nature and leading photo tours in all over the World.
She was born in Carpi, a small city in the region of Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy and studied at the University of Bologna to become a pharmacist.
During that period of her life, she struggled a lot to find the real self because the future perspective of working as a pharmacist didn’t correspond to her real dreams.
Indeed, since childhood, Isabella felt to be an artist, loving to express her deep emotions into photography, painting and music.
Isabella Tabacchi in 2016
THE BEGINNING IN THE DOLOMITES
Photography used to be the main hobby for Isabella since the end of the high school but things started to change in the Italian Dolomites in 2014, when, for the first time, she visited the moon-like landscapes in Catinaccio / Rosengarten (Garden of Roses) mountain group.
Isabella fell in love with the sharp and misty peaks of the Dolomites and started to dream of a life in which she lives expressing her feelings for these landscapes, immortalizing them forever.
Isabella’s dream became one: inspiring people and living with her art, even if at the beginning looked like an uthopia.
From that moment, the Dolomites became her emotional refuge. Every time she felt tired and sad about the books, the exams, the other people expectations and the University life, she “escaped” in Alpe di Siusi with the camera and the tripod. The magic of the silence, with the Sassolungo and Sassopiatto leading the scene in front of the misty hills, became her favorite mood that she wanted to translate in pictures.
Isabella’s favorite season is Summer. She especially loves to represent the energy and happiness evoked by the rocky landscapes of the Dolomites with often wild flowers in the foreground.
Isabella Tabacchi in front of the Vajolet Towers, her favorite location in the Dolomites.
EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Isabella Tabacchi considers her landscape photography as an art that not only immortalizes moments but has also the purpose to capture her emotions and stir feelings in people observing her works. Nature, especially a landscape, is often considered a dead and impersonal topic for photography, because it’s taken for granted that we live on an amazing planet that can be considered a form of art itself. But, a place can be more alive than anything else. The colors, the contrasts, the elements of nature arouse sensations in us and especially the memories, the events, the thoughts that make a landscape an emotions catcher.
From the beginning, Isabella Tabacchi had the vision of the Dolomites as an emotional refuge from the boring and stressful everyday life, so she had to figure out a way to represent this in her photography.
That’s how her editing style became an important part of the process into her landscape photography.
The editing style has not the purpose to distort the reality but helps into the artistic expression of Isabella’s emotions in a landscape.
Often the style and the mood within a picture is totally subconscious, Isabella doesn’t know either! But everyone can find a personal interpretation. This is the wonderful thing about art.
Isabella Tabacchi in Canary Islands in 2023
FULL-TIME LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER
Since 2016, when her style had a breakthrough, Isabella Tabacchi started to get accomplishments and international awards thanks to her photography and her dream-like style. Isabella’s works from the Dolomites started to become well-known on social media that a lot of people started to ask for workshops and teaching from her.
In 2017, Isabella got full-time and started to lead workshops and photo tours in the Dolomites and then in other places in the World.
In those years, Isabella Tabacchi started traveling around the World to find different sources of inspiration and evolve her style.
The countries visited by Isabella, so far, include New Zealand, Madagascar, Greenland, Russia, Turkey, Iceland, Namibia, Chile, Iran, Norway, Germany, Austria, Poland, China, Sweden, Northern Ireland, USA, UK.
Her Facebook and Instagram communities reached over 200k followers each.
Check the photo tours page to discover the next opportunities to learn from Isabella Tabacchi.
Isabella Tabacchi in Iceland in 2023.
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Awarded as Photographer of the Year 2020 in the Moscow International Photo Awards 2020 (MIFA) thanks to a serie from the project “Kamchatka: to the abyss of the Earth”. 3rd prize awarded in the International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2020 award and in Landscape Photograph of the Year 2023, the most important landscape photography competition in the world. Her picture of Lut desert in Iran was selected in the Milky Way Photographer of the Year 2023 selection. Received the title of Hasselblad Heroine in 2021. Winner in the Aerial Photography category in the Xposure Awards 2024.
Since 2016, Isabella Tabacchi won prizes in Monochrome Awards, International Photographer of the Year awards (IPOTY), Outdoor Photographer of the Year (OPOTY), Fine Art Photography Awards, Moscow International Photo Awards, Epson International Pano Awards (Highest scoring Gigapixel Image), ND Awards, Tokyo Foto Awards, Creative Siena Photo Awards, Milky Way Photographer of the Year, International Landscape Photographer of the Year.
Judge in the Epson International Pano Awards (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 editions) one of the most important photo competitions in the world, Hasselblad X You and at the CIP International Photo Festival, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 editions. Judge in Annual Photo Awards (APA) in 2021 and expert Judge in two contests for the platform Photocrowd. In 2021 Isabella is judge in the photo contest “Uno scatto per la natura” organized by the italian Ministry of Environment. In 2021 she was part of the Hasselblad Master Grand Jury.
The award-winning “Tree of Life” (2023), aerial view of rivers and grooves in the highlands of Iceland.
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Featured in Adobe, Hasselblad, Behance, The Sun, Rosphoto, Sky News 24, Sky Arte, National Geographic, The Times, The Telegraph, House and Garden, Elle, Daily Mail, The Atlantic, Il Corriere, Dove, Digital Camera SLR UK, N-Photo, Foto Cult, Outdoor Photographer, Peta Pixel, Outdoor Photography, Il Progresso Fotografico, Practical Photography UK, Fstoppers , Landscape Photography Magazine, Australian Photography Sleeklens, The Phoblographer, Kikapress, Photography Masterclass, Asian Photography, Reponses Photo, My Modern Met, Newsweek The Phoblographer, Fubiz, Dpreview, Sleeklens, Terra Quantum, Msn, Digital Camera World, Newsbreak, Der Spiegel, Weather.com
“Way to Udina”(2019), Kamchatka, Far East Russia, from the award-winning series "The abyss of Earth” in Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA).