Manuela Federella
 

• Born in Milan, Italy, 1971
• Started photographing as freelance in 1996, using Canon and Contax equipment
• Summer Toscana Photo Workshop in 1997 (first and only formal training in color photography)
• Photographic main interest: figure skating, ice dance in particular
• Other photographic interests: street photography, reportage, collecting photographic books and magazines, attending photo exhibitions, surfing photographic web sites, studying history of photography
• Main current professional activity: web editor for Sun Microsystems Italia

Published editorial work
 

• Italy, Ghiacciosport, articles and photographs since 1995 (including covers)
• Italy, Progress, photographs - 2000
• Italy, Time Out Milano, photographs - 2000
• Italy, Silhouette Donna, photographs - 2000
• Italy, Donna Moderna (Donna in forma), photographs - 2000
• Italy, Gazzetta dello Sport, photographs - 2000
• Italy, Corriere della Sera (Corriere Milano, Vivimilano, Sette), photographs - 2001
• Italy, La Stampa (Specchio), photographs - 2001
• Italy, Il Segno, photographs - 2001
• USA, American Skating World, articles and photographs since 1996 (including various covers)
• USA, International Figure Skating, photographs - 2000
• Canada, Spotlight on skating, photographs - 1999-2000

Published web work
 

• Geocities, first Online Photo Gallery created in May 1998 (skating and street photography)
• Tiscalinet, new and revised Online Photo Gallery created in summer 2000 (skating)
• Skating Photography Mailing List created at egroups - May 2000 (moderator)
• Icewire, online Italian skating magazine, articles and photographs since 1999
• Various contributions to skating and photography related web sites, including Fusar Poli and Margaglio's official web site

Commercial work
 

• Italian Tour - summer 1999 (official photographer)
• Italian Tour - winter 2000 (official photographer)
• Italian Tour - summer 2000, contributed logo and brochure tour photograph
• Courmayeur APT, winter 2000 Italian Tour event promotion, contributed advertising photograph
• Agora' ice rink, Milan, The Nutcracker on Ice - Courmayeur premiere show, August 2000 (official photographer)
• Agora'ice rink, Milan, Fusar Poli and Margaglio promotion 2000-2001, photographs

Main Events attended
 

• Ice dance: local and national Italian competitions, since 1996
• European figure skating championships, 1998 (Milan), 1999 (Prague), 2000 (Vienna)
• Senior Gran Prix final, 2000 (Lyon), Senior Sparkassen Cup Gran Prix event, 2000 (Gelsenkirchen)
• World figure skating championships, 2000 (Nice)

Work in progress and other current projects (new or related editorial proposals are welcome)
 

• Reportage photography on Fusar Poli and Margaglio
• European figure skating championships, 2001 (Bratislava)
• National Italian competitions, 2001