Naomi Sally Santangelo

Naomi Sally Santangelo was born in Vienna in 1987, but grew up on the Amalfi coast where colours, scents and landscapes will forever shape her visual identity. She returns to the capital of Austria to carry out linguistic and artistic studies, with a focus on live painting and drawing, she grows up as a child of art in an environment rich in culture, art and communication. At the age of 16, after traveling to Brazil for several months, she returned to Italy, this time to Naples. Here you will complete your studies at the scientific high school by learning the language during the training itself, achieving excellent results for the scientific diploma. 2006 becomes a sabbatical year for the studio and she works at the Madre museum where the link with art, this time contemporary, further intensifies. In the same year she flies to the States for an adventurous road trip and to authentically perfect her English. The first years in Italy were punctuated by continuous trips to all the art cities of Italy to visit monuments, museums and landscapes, which then became essential baggage for the organization of productions in the following years. Since 2007 she has been attending the Faculty of Communication Sciences, maintaining her studies with small jobs as a hostess, pr and mask. In recent years, the course of study has opened up many interesting scenarios and ranges from humanities, such as sociology, anthropology and psychology of communication, to technical subjects and laboratories related to communication and marketing strategies, with many insights into cinema, geo-politics, law and comparative law. The degree was obtained in 2010 with full marks, 110 honors and mentions from the entire professorship. From the very beginning he manages to place himself in the world of Neapolitan work as a stylist and as a production assistant, followed by many stimulating projects including the creation of the calendars of the Napoli football club and life style shootings for luxury yachts in Capri, Montecarlo, Cannes, Saint Tropez, Portofino, Sardinia, Montenegro and Malta. She pays particular attention to children's fashion and decides to combine her spontaneous activity of adult casting and streetcasting with a particular focus on children's casting, thus she founded casting kids studios in 2010; today she is the top leading agency in Italy for kids models and talent management with a national and international network. In private life she marries Luca Zoppo, also a producer, and together they create a beautiful family with children. However, Naomi Sally manages to combine work and motherhood and expands her kids agency day after day, participating in the most prestigious projects on the national territory, from the casting of Dolce and Gabbana / liu-jo / blumarine, to the casting for the pitti bimbo, the faces for editorials and covers such as grazie kids and style piccoli, the selection of figures and actors for films and series for Disney for example, casting and production for international clients such as vertbaudet and Cyrillus. Production becomes secondary in its path and begins to focus on creative direction and photography. Debut in photography with the Alcott campaigns made respectively in Amsterdam and Fuerteventura, with nationwide billboards. The eye is particularly gifted for the creation of social campaigns for which in unsuspecting times she starts shooting with the iPhone and with expressive freedom far from the dogmas of classic fashion photography. For the clients she follows, she creates a 360 ° identity by creating visual and textual contents, even aiming for events, where she has DJ Peggy Gould present as a testimonial alongside other celebs and bloggers. Many campaigns signed by Santangelo followed, sometimes alone and sometimes as co-photographer with the artists represented by Santangelo studios, among the best known: John Richmond, Trussardi, Capri vice, Vicolo, Gaelle, Original Marines, Vingino and Messi. All the campaigns are set in breathtaking locations, with a strong focus on the beauty of the Neapolitan coast and gulf, but without excluding scenarios such as Lake Garda, Venice but also Bangkok and Phuket. Since 2010 it has been a succession of activities that cross and complete in a path that leads Naomi Sally to her current creative identity which is best defined as Casting director, creative director and photographer, and professional identity as a partner of Santangelo Media Studios and as founder and owner of Casting Kids Studios agency and her 35k Instagram page of the same name.