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MARIANNA SANTONI

WOULD YOU LIKE TO INVOLVE ME
IN YOUR EVENT?

It’s always been a great honor for me to share my and approach work flow with photographers, both from a technical and artistic point of view.

I am an expert in digital photographic work flow, from shooting to post-production to the final print.

I am one of the most expert Photoshop® gurus
and illumination technicians when dealing with artificial lighting in the studio.
I have been invited over many years to speak on a variety of subjects dealing with photography, both technical and cultural.

For more information write to:
[email protected]

EXPERIENCE

My experience as a photographer and Photoshop expert has always developed along side my activity as a teacher.
This has made it possible for me to deal continuously with colleagues and firms throughout the world and at all levels.

I have been teaching since 2002.
Over time I have developed the ability to explain even complicated processes in a very easy and exciting way.

More than 1,000
teaching events totaling
more than 22,000 participants in class.

Live, on line and on TV
Nine appearances on RAI 2 national TV and more than 10 years of webinars, online and video courses.

Speaker before one and thousands of spectators
Collaborating in many fields I have had a chance to appear in the most diversified settings.

Side by side with legends
I have held numerous events with many living legends in the field such as Katrin Eismann, Julia Kuzmenko, Dan Margulis, Dave Cross, Andrzej Dragan, Joel Grimes, Peter Holgersson, Pratik Naik, Efrem Raimondi, Bob Krieger...

Photo: ©  Lavinia Oldani, courtesy of Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A.

Between 2016 and 2017 Marianna Santoni has been a guest, as an experty photographer, on 8 shows of Detto Fatto on the national RAI2 TV channel.

CLIENTS

The following is a partial list
of the official teaching events
I have participated in as a speaker.

HI TECH

 

MICROSOFT® 
ADOBE®
CANON®
CANSON®
ELINCHROM®
EPSON®
FUJIFILM®
HASSELBLAD®
HP®
NIK SOFTWARE®
NIKON®
ROLAND®
WACOM®
X-RITE®

BIG EVENTS
AND FAIRS

 

Adobe Creative Licence Conference
Adobe Day
Adobe E-Seminar
Adobe Live!
Adobe Master Class
Adobe Partner Day
Adobe Roadshow per il lancio di Lightroom 1.0
Arrivano i Guru
Click Create & Print
Canon Digital Symposium
Convention Internazionale Orvieto Fotografia
Creativity Day
Creare Stampare
Dia Sotto le Stelle
Esprinet Digital Day
Fiera della Fotografia del Pentagono
Fujifilm Tour Nazionale
Grafitalia
Hasselblad World Tour
HP Photography and Printing Master Class
Nikon Click-Up
Photoshow
Sposiamo il digitale
The Photography Show (Birmingham)
Wiki Loves Monuments Umbria (Wikipedia)

UNIVERSITIES, INSTITUTES
AND ACADEMIES

 

Montana State University
Accademia Delle Arti e Nuove Tecnologie di Roma
Accademia delle Belle Arti di Perugia
Accademia delle Belle Arti Di Bologna 
Università degli Studi Magna Græcia Di Catanzaro
Università Terza Età Foligno (PG)
ISIA Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche
ILAS di Napoli
BigRock - Institute ff Magic Technologies
Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena
Università degli Studi di Siena
Centro Culturale Candiani

PROFESSIONAL ORDERS AND
PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATIONS

 

Ordine degli Architetti
ANFM - Associazione Nazionale Fotografi di Matrimonio
F.I.O.F. - Fondo Internazionale Orvieto Fotografia
FPA - Fotoreporter Professionisti Associati

INDUSTRIAL AND
CRAFT ASSOCIATIONS

 

Assindustria - Ancona
CNA - ECIPAR - Parma
CNA - ECIPAR - Ferrara
CNA - Genova
CNA - Teramo
Confartigianato - Lapam - Modena
Confartigianato - UPA, Unione Provinciale Artigiani - Mantova
Confartigianato - Ancona
Confartigianato - Cremona
Confartigianato - Ferrara
Confartigianato Imprese - Frosinone
Confartigianato - La Spezia
Confartigianato - Perugia
Confartigianato - Reggio Emilia
Confartigianato - Trieste
Confartigianato - Udine

ONLUS AND NGO

 

Wikimedia® (Wikipedia®)
Lions Club - Lamezia Terme
CazaOz - Torino
Fondazione Cini - Venezia
CRAF - Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia - Spilimbergo
A.F.I. - Archivio Fotografico Italiano - Varese
Associazione Alessia - Canton Ticino

Marianna Santoni Adobe Guru
Marianna Santoni Adobe Guru
Marianna Santoni Adobe Guru

In 2004 Marianna Santoni entered the very select group of Adobe® Gurus selected and trained by Adobe®.
She was the first Italian “Adobe® Guru for digital imaging” for Photoshop and Lightroom (2004).
She was the first Italian expert and thus far the only woman to be elected by Adobe® “Best Adobe® Guru” for Photoshop and Lightroom (2006).
Marianna Santoni has held many official events for Adobe® as an Adobe® Guru. 
In the preceding photographs Marianna Santoni appears on the stage of Adobe® Live! at the Assago Forum in Milan, and in the Adobe stand at a recent edition of Milan’s Photoshow, both as an Adobe® Guru.
Marianna Santoni was also speaker on the official Roadshow that launched Lightroom world wide, beside Alberto Comper and she wrote the first Lightroom guide in the world, commissioned by Adobe®.

Marianna has the ability to inject passion in every project and always surpasses our expectations for her creativity and for the results she produces for us.

Dave Mobbs
X-RITE® - EMEA Marketing Manager. X-Rite is world leader in the production of color management technology.

X-Rite has worked with Marianna for many years as their key ambassador for its official international teaching program. Marianna’s extraordinary photographic competence and her incredible knowledge of color management make her a perfect partner able to offer new solutions in an enthusiastic way to anyone interested in bettering their photographic work flow.
Marianna has the ability to inject passion in every project and always surpasses our expectations for her creativity  and for the results she produces for us.

Every year we increase our collaboration with her thanks to her success and to the remarkable feedback we receive from our clients.
Working with Marianna is pure pleasure and we look forward to collaborating with her in the long term.

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In 2019 X-Rite® and Canson® commissioned Marianna Santoni to lecture 9 times at The Photography Show di Birmingham: the most important photography event in Great Britain.
She became the first Italian spokeswoman at one of Europe’s most important events.  No other speaker from Italy had ever been invited.
Among the other speakers were legends of international photography, such as Martin Parr (Magnum), Pete Souza (photographer for Barack Obama at the White House) and Annie Griffiths (ne of the first women to work for the National Georgraphic).

TO MAKE
AN EVENT MEMORABLE...

...some special ingredients are needed

Passion

The WOW effect

Involvement

Valuable content

Interaction

Enthusiasm

June 22-23 2010 in Palinuro. A huge teaching event organized and sponsored by Photoworld saw MS as the sole speaker for two days. The event catalyzed over 100 photographers from all over Italy.

January 24 and April 11 2010 in L'Aquila. Together with the Sicilian cultural association, Logica, and the local photographer Roberto Grillo, Marianna Santoni organized and promoted two important non-profit cultural events “Lo Scatto de L’Aquila” to raise money to help local colleagues hurt by the earthquake and to set up a permanent photographic collection in memory of L’Aquila, called “Lo Spazio del Ricordo” (the Place of Memories). More than 300 photographers from all over Italy contributed and helped raise over € 20,000. The two events were held at the conference hall of the Savings Bank of L’Aquila.

 

For more information write to:
[email protected]

RECENT LECTURES I HAVE HELD:

From 2004 to today together with
the greatest digital imaging brands.

From 06 to 27 October 2024
Prima cinematografica del film "SCATTI FOTOGRAFICI DI EDVARD MUNCH" Color grading del film e restauro digitale dell'archivio fotografico inedito di E. Munch curati da Marianna Santoni.

Dall'Atelier al Grande Schermo:
Il Mio Viaggio da Urlo con Edvard Munch

Cineteca Milano Arlecchino (Italia)
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Friday 27 September 2024
con il Guru di Photoshop Marianna Santoni. Evento formativo benefico organizzato da Mollusk per promuovere una raccolta fondi in favore della "Fondazione Luchetta Ota D'Angelo Hrovatin".

UNA SERATA FORMATIVA GRATUITA
SULLA FOTOGRAFIA E LA POST-PRODUZIONE FOTOGRAFICA

Trieste (Italia)
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Tuesday 11 June 2024
Una panoramica su tutte le accortezze più importanti cui prestare attenzione per valorizzare al massimo il tuo budget

WEBINAR GRATUITO: Come scegliere il miglior monitor per la fotografia

Webinar on-line
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Thursday 16 May 2024
PRESENTAZIONE EDITORIALE (INEDITA) Genesi e sviluppo di un grande progetto di fotografia industriale. Con gli autori Ivan Sarfatti e Marianna Santoni.

"FRAME":
L'IDEA, LE FOTO, IL LIBRO

Bologna (Italia)
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Wednesday 27 March 2024
EVENTO FORMATIVO GRATUITO con Marianna Santoni Festival Fotografico Europeo.

L'INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE
IN LIGHTROOM, CAMERA RAW E PHOTOSHOP

Busto Arsizio (Italia)
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Since 2004 I have carried out over 1.000 professional assignments as photographer, retoucher, adviser and professor for clients like Adobe®, Canon®, Nikon®, Sony®, Gucci®, Ryanair®, Rai2 and many more.

I am among the world experts with the highest number of accolades received from the main brands of the sector.

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