Romano Cagnoni

Romano Cagnoni (Pietrasanta, Italy, 9 November 1935 – 30 January 2018)[1] was an Italian photographer who spent most of his professional life based in London.

Cagnoni was the first western non-communist photographer to be allowed North of Vietnam with the British journalist James Cameron.

[2] In 1968 he won the Overseas Press Club Award,[4] for his Nigerian Civil War reportage published in Life, the German Art Directors' Club bronze medal for documenting with a large format camera the destruction from the war in the former Yugoslavia, and many Italian prizes.

[citation needed] In the late 1980s, he returned to live in Pietrasanta in Italy, from where he travels worldwide for his work.

The Sunday Times former editor Harold Evans, in his book Pictures on a Page: Photo-Journalism, Graphics and Picture Editing,[5] mentions Cagnoni as one of the most famous photographers in the world with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, Don McCullin and Eugene Smith.