Born in 1986 and based between Milan and Cyprus, after graduating in Philosophy in 2010, I achieved a Master degree in Visual Arts and started my career first as a sailing photographer in 2012 during the Moth World Championship in Campione del Garda. Now I am traveling all around the world following the most important regattas.
In addition to be a photo-reporter for several magazines I worked in a Fine Art Print Lab to know better the art of printing.
I never stop learning new skills to improve my photographic and visual projects: I am also a work-in-progress video-maker, a drone pilot and a scuba diver. I use to spend my free-time doing windsurf, exploring places, reading a lot of books and writing.
I see myself not only as a photographer but also as a storyteller, a globe trotter, a truly and deeply sea-lover and an adrenaline addicted, always trying to go beyond my limits.
Winner of the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image - Forum Award 2019.
Second place at the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2021.
Third place at Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image - Forum Award 2022 and 2023
Co-founder of Abyss Clean Up, an international non-profit for the conservation of the natural heritage.
I started traveling from a very young age because of my parents’ jobs – my father was a pilot and my mother an air hostess. In the golden years for air companies, my parents were frequently away from home for long periods of time and often took me with them. It was great to travel that way – encountering different cultures fascinated me and being the only child in my class, at the time, who could say she had already visited so many places, sparked in me the need to record everything I saw. I use to write a lot, but I soon realized that a pen and diary were not enough to capture everything I wanted to remember – there are tones and details that only poets can describe. So my parents gave me my first camera – a small compact device with a film, which was essential in helping me understand that a camera was the only tool I could use to express myself. What made me interested in photography was the ‘journey’ – first in the sense of moving and exploring places, then as a journey of self-discovery. Photography became my way of communicating to other people what I knew about myself through the images I created.
I think that my love for the sea – and for water in general as an element – is inborn. I cannot remember any holidays I did not spend on a boat. The feeling of moving over the sea, pushed only by the wind, has become something intimate, a philosophy of life, linked to traveling and to moving, which, for me, means life. I do not like being in the same place, the idea is actually depressing – as is living in a city, without a broad horizon beckoning to thoughts and dreams.
Nowadays I am a proud sailing photographer, photo reporter and storyteller.
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Fotografia, sul mare alla ricerca di libertà e avventura - CLICK HERE
Sea is freedom and water a symbol of strength - CLICK HERE
Sail2You - CLICK HERE
Martina Orsini delle meraviglie / Ansa - CLICK HERE
A tête à tête with Martina Orsini, a sailing photographer with a passion for writing - CLICK HERE
SLAM per Foiling Week - Martina Orsini: emozioni in uno scatto - CLICK HERE