Mario Amura | |
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| Born | 18 April 1973 Naples, Italy |
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| Years active | 1993–present |
| Website | mario-amura |
Mario Amura (born 1973) is an Italian photographer and cinematographer.
Mario Amura was born in 1973 in Naples, Italy. He took cinematography classes at Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome, studying with Giuseppe Rotunno.
He began working as a photographer in 1993. His early photographic work was collected in the 1999 publication Mario Amura – Fotografie 1995–1999. Starting in 2003, he has been credited as a cinematographer on the Luca Guadagnino films Cuoco contadino (2004) and Melissa P. (2005). Other credits include Sorry, You Can't Get Through! (2005), In Memory of Myself (2007), Draquila – L'Italia che trema (2010), and Into Paradiso (2010).
As a director, in 2003, Amura shot Racconto di guerra, a short film set in Sarajevo during the Balkan war. It was awarded the David di Donatello for Best Short Film the same year and the Ciak d'oro for best short film in 2004.
Since 2007, Amura has been working on a photographic live-performance research project titled StopEmotion, from which he later developed the application Phlay.
Since 2010, he has been the creator of the photographic cycle Napoli Explosion, which consists of large-format works capturing the fireworks celebration staged at the foot of Mount Vesuvius on New Year's Eve. In 2023–24, the project was exhibited at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples. Between 2025 and 2026, Napoli Explosion was presented in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
As cinematographer
As film director
