Joe Zammit-Lucia
Effectively communicating environmental messages and raising money for environmental causes.
These are the stated aims of award winning British photographic artist Joe Zammit-Lucia.
Involved in photography since the age of 16, Joe Zammit-Lucia is a qualified physician, an entrepreneur who founded a successful international company and is now a professional environmental photographer based in the UK and the USA. His interest is in exploring how art and photography can help conservation and environmental efforts. He is working with environmental organizations on multiple projects around the world.
He is both author and photographer for FIRST STEPS - Conserving Our Environment and the author of Green In Print - a guide to environmentally-friendly photographic paper.
Winner of the Honor of Distinction in the Nature Category of the prestigious International Masters Cup and awarded multiple nominations in the International Black and White Spider Awards, his work has appeared in international fine art photography and environmental magazines worldwide and is featured in The World?s Greatest Black and White Photography.
His exhibits have been presented in major public forums such as the United Nations Headquarters in New York and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris as well as in private galleries in Europe and the USA. His work was exhibited in Venezia Immagine on the occasion of the Venice Biennale in 2007. In 2008, his images have been selected to promote and showcase the World Conservation Congress being held in Barcelona in October.
He is currently working with the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans on a project designed to display the role of conservation in maintaining and enhancing the spirit of the city.
The artist donates all profits from his photography to environmental causes.