DesignSelect - Guest Artist Lionel Martinez

Don't Worry For Me

Dany was born in Naples (Italy) in 1981 and got graduated in 2005 (Languages and literature). She started using a camera when she was only but a child, having always been fascinated by the idea she could fix images and moments on paper. Being very sensitive, she generally kept to herself, managing to feel gloomy all the time: that's another reason why her fascination with photography started. Since she thought her happy moments were just going to vanish and since she was sure she wouldn't have many of them, she generally took hundreds of photos she wanted to look at when she was feeling down, to remember the smiles and the warmth she'd felt inside. Her biggest regret is that she doesn't have more photos of her beloved grandfather, who died when she was but a child and who was her mentor and example in life.

Over the years she has collaborated with many bands, magazines and publicity/fashion agencies, as well as models and other organizations. Aside from her freelancer activity, she is currently working as music photographer for Skyscraper

Magazine, merchandise and band t-shirt designer for Beatnikpress.com (where she also won a contest for the best artwork for the band "November"), and designer and publicity photographer for the publicity/communication agency "InsightAgency".

In 2005 her photos and special thanks for her were included in the book "Heartworks" by the English digital artist Ian Fields Richards and in 2006 a video with her images was seen on tv, sent by the program "Radio Casbah". Among the other publications, one she's very proud of, and that gave her quite some popularity, is the one from "Flash Magazine", a widely read monthly magazine. In 2007 she was choosen as partner photographer from the most popular and well established model website in Italy, BMFashion.it.