Photographers

Pasquale Vassallo

Underwater photographer, graduated in marine productions at the University of Naples “Federico II”, Pasquale was born in Naples in 1970. Since his childhood, he learned to love the sea and to skin-dive searching for octopuses and urchins. Over the years, his passion for the great blue evolved into pure exploration of the underwater world.

Self-taught person, he began his underwater photography career with a Nikonos III in 1989, more and more oriented towards photography of biological interest, fostered by the richness of the Gulf of Naples’ seabeds. His photos have been published in major national and international magazines such as National Geographic, Tauchen, Dive Master, Discovery Magazine, Focus and many others. Pasquale gained also several awards and recognition around the world, including the prestigious “Plongeur d’or” in 2011 and “Plongeur de bronze” in 2015 in Marseille. Number 100 of the Asian Diver magazine published one of his portfolio, and Ocean Planet Scuba Diver magazine included some of his images inside the special unique edition dedicated to those artists who left their mark in underwater photography.

Together with his lifetime underwater photographer friend Guido Villani, Pasquale is one of the Neapolis’ international photo contest creators. In 2015, he started to collaborate with Enzo Maione, owner of Centro Sub Campi Flegrei, for realizing the first “Guide to the Archaeological submerged Park of Baia” in preview at ADEX 2016 in Singapore.

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