Wildlife and conservation photojournalist Sergio Pitamitz has French and Italian double citizenship. For over two decades he has documented  wildlife and environmental issues, focusing in particular on African wildlife, big cats and the Polar regions. Sergio lives in the 7 Lakes District in Northern Italy and he enjoys spending as much time as possible in his beloved Menton in the French Riviera.

He is a National Geographic contributing photographer.

On assignments Pitamitz has traveled in all the seven continents. His work has been featured in leading magazine such as National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Geo Magazine, Terre Sauvage, Africa Geographic, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Figaro Magazine. Pitamitz has received accolades in many international competitions. He won the NPPA - National Press Photography Association “Best of Photojournalism 2016 - Environmental Category”.

As a photojournalist he is aware of the power of photography and storytelling for documenting real events so the applied digital post-processing - unless disclosed - never change the content of the image and Sergio maintains ethical standards in the field to minimise altering the animal behaviour.

His wildlife and nature photographs are distributed by the French agency BiosPhoto and he is a National Geographic Image Collection contract photographer.

He is the Chairman of Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Environmental Photography Awards and Swarovski Optik Brand Ambassador.

Spoken Languages: Italian (Native), French (Native), English (Fluent), Spanish (Conversational)

Photo credit: ARR