Nicolas M. J. Berlingieri Mfiap |
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Biography |
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Was born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1947. He studied in Italy, Switzerland and Great Britain. He was, for twenty five years, the General Manager and Vice-president of PEVECE S.A.I.C., a leading corporation in calandered plastic. At present he is PC analyst, programmer of software, and teacher of Digital Photography at UADE University. A self-taught photographer, he took up photography as a hobby at first. He became a fan when he joined Foto Club Argentino in 1967, where he was elected President in 1974. He also joined Foto Club Norte in 1968, and Foto Club Buenos Aires in 1975, where he covered several managements up till now.He has been on the panel of Judges in International Salons of Photography since 1973. He was “Guest Judge” in North American and European Exhibitions. In 1998 he was named Vice-president of Academic Foundation of Visual Arts. From 1998 until 2006 he was Member of the Directory Board of the Foto Club Buenos Aires and of the Artistic Committee of the same institution. Since 1999 he has been Professor of Digital Photography at the UADE (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa). From 2001 until 2004 he was Director of International Salons of the FCBA. He received a Diploma as “Guest Professor“ of the University of Art and Design of Shandong (China), and was distinguished as Excellency FIAP by the Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique (France), Member of Honor of Photodigitalgrosseto (Italy) and of Fotoforum (Luxembourg) (in both cases this has been the only such distinction granted up to anybody so far). |
He is a Member of Honor of the Foto Club Argentino and of the Foto Club Buenos Aires. He has been an associate of the PSA (Photographic Society of America) since 1973 and of ISF (Imàges Sans Frontière) since 2005.
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