Claudio Palmisano (1972) is a photographer with a love for the sea and an expert in digital photography and post-production.
From 2006 to 2016, he co-founded and directed the post-production and printing lab at 10bphotography in Rome, an international service specializing in photojournalism.
He now lives and works between Rome, where he also has his own printing lab, Palermo, the island of Linosa, in the cloud, and underwater.
In 2019, he contributed to the Italian version of the National Geographic photography manual, “Raw and Photo Editing. A Complete Course in Photographic Technique.” National Geographic.
His clients include Yuri Kozyrev, James Nachtwey, Francesco Zizola, Marcus Bleasdale, Lynsey Addario, Adam Ferguson, Alessandro Cosmelli, Gaialight, Tanya Habjouqa, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Marco Longari, Massimo Siragusa, Tommaso Protti, Paolo Pellegrin, and more.
He has post-produced dozens of books, covers, and reportages published in TIME, the New York Times, National Geographic, and across the international press, winning the world’s most important awards.
As a photographer, he has focused primarily on the Mediterranean Sea since 2010, specializing in underwater photography. He is one of the official photographers of the Italian Coast Guard.
In 2013, he documented the tragic shipwreck off Lampedusa for the Italian Navy.
Since 2015, he has been tracking the migration of fin whales in the Mediterranean. (Lampedusa 2015 – 2020) (ISPRA, Tethys) which publishes on NG Italia “The Sea Under Lampedusa” National Geographic (2018)
Over years of work (Linosa 2011 – 2021), he has created very large-format underwater panoramas using a sophisticated shooting technique, which he has exhibited at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb (2017), “La Stanza di Lucrezia” (Ferrara), “Paoletti” (Bologna), and at the Stadium of Domitian in Piazza Navona (Rome). (2019)
For the Fastweb 2020 campaign (Burges 2019), he photographed world swimming champion Simona Quadarella.
For the Italian Coast Guard, he documented the #plasticfree campaign (2020), created the official calendar (2018), and the Divers’ Unit calendar (2019).
He was a still photographer and underwater cameraman for Emanuele Crialese in the documentary “Il tempo del silenzio” (2020) and the film “L’immensità” (2021) and for Leandro Picarella, “Sciatunostro” (2025)
His work has been published in National Geographic, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Paris Match, l’Espresso, il Manifesto, and more.
He has taught at the Istituto Superiore di Fotografia since 1995 now NOMAD, at Scuola Jack London, Internazionale a Ferrara, and when is not underwater likes to meet people in conferences and workshops around the world.
