Born in Firenze in 1989, Andrea Boccini is a visual artist, documentarist and wildlife ambassador based in Perugia, Italy.
During the 4 years of scenography and photography studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, he conducted training internships at Teatro Verdi, ISIA, Vertigo Film working alongside renowned artists of cinema and entertainment. After completing his studies in Perugia, he began working as a typographer and editorial graphic designer. In 2014 he participated in several group exhibitions in Milan. In 2015 the work “In the womb of Africa” was published in the New Zealand magazine “destination Magazine”, a photographic essay on life on the edge of one of the most hostile places in the world: The Sahara.
In 2016 he started working as freelance on the on-going project “The Missing Link”, a worldwide photo and video documentary that took him in three continents, in the most remote territories, in border areas between civilization and wilderness, where human develope collides with wildlife and it’s natural habitats until now untouched. From 2017 to 2019 he worked as volunteer in Kenya, Australia, Indonesia, India and Zimbabwe for the conservation of endangered species and vulnerable habitats.
In 2019 the first solo exhibition of the “The Missing Link” in Pollenza, Italy. The project has won the 3rd prize at “International Photography awards” in 2020 and has been featured twice by “Life Framer” in 2021.
