Marco Ficili fotografo

Marco Ficili fotografo Atelier fotografico
Si riceve per appuntamento A never-ending surprise…a great emotion! This is how I describe my passion for photography. Did I get any awards?

A relationship born when I was a boy and never ended. It captivated me so much that it has become my job. I love true photography that tells without cheating, that reproduces the magic of a gaze or a heartbreaking landscape. I was born in Modica, a noble, ancient and in some features modern town, full of history, traditions and contradictions. Its light, its shadows and the velvet touch of the sun

going down are always present in my photos. Childhood is deep-rooted in everyone’s soul. No matter how far you go, no matter whom you share your life with, your origins will always be part of yourself. You only need to be willing to listen to them. I live in Catania, where I attended Principe Umberto di Savoia high school specializing in science. When I graduated from high school, I often travelled seeking “Photography”. I like letting myself get carried away by photography. Most of the time there is neither a precise idea nor a fixed itinerary, but I know that there is always a new destination, something new and different to be discovered, tasted and passed down. This is exactly what I love and attracts me most in photography. Despite the numerous years and the various experiences I have had, photography can still surprise me. I have always taken advantage of any chance to travel and go explore Europe. I have taken plenty of pictures, I have met various photographic souls, discovered various viewpoints, numerous lights and atmospheres. I have unconsciously absorbed their being, and all of this has become Marco Ficili today. My technical education has followed a more conventional path. Thanks to photography schools and courses, I had the opportunity to visit and live in cities like Milan, Florence, London and Berlin. Some years later I met Barbara, with whom I share my life and my passion for photography. This prevents us from recognizing any boundaries between our job and free time. But we like it this way! With a job like ours, which is a passion more than a duty, it could not be otherwise. I like the sea and I go to the seaside every time I can. I love travelling and visiting new places, ranging from smaller and less popular centres to big metropolises of our time. I like playing tennis and I relax reading novels or essays about … guess what? … Photography, of course! I also have a passion for cooking. I try out and look for new solutions in cooking, as well! Eventually the dishes I prepare are only experiments for my wife and myself… and maybe it is better so! In 2000 I opened my photography studio in Catania, the city I live in. I started working in advertising, in the publishing industry and studio portrait photography. My staff and I managed to make a niche in traditional wedding photography, by imposing truth and spontaneity as watchwords of our way of conceiving wedding photography. I have instinctively deconstructed some of the classical patterns of traditional wedding photography by re-establishing the centrality of the event and its protagonists. My clients love my photography services as they stand out for their spontaneous and at the same time evoking style. And I love my clients since they can distinguish, they can appreciate and choose what really moves them. I had the pleasure to be mentioned, awarded and published by WPJA “Wedding Photo Journalism Association”, TAU VISUAL, White Sposa and Vogue Sposa. Some, the right ones for an excellent résumé! What else? Una continua sorpresa… una grande emozione! Cosi posso riassumere la mia passione per la fotografia. Una relazione iniziata da ragazzo e mai interrotta, che mi ha coinvolto completamente fino a farne la mia professione. Amo la fotografia vera, quella che sa raccontare senza barare, restituendo la magia di uno sguardo o di un paesaggio struggente. Sono nato a Modica, una terra nobile, antica e a tratti moderna, piena di storia, di tradizioni e di contraddizioni. La sua luce, le sue ombre e la vellutata carezza dei suoi tramonti sono sempre vivi e presenti nelle mie opere fotografiche. Le radici dell’infanzia rimangono ben radicate nel nostro animo, non importa quanto lontano andrai a vivere e non importa con chi andrai a vivere, saranno sempre vive e presenti dentro di te, è sufficiente decidere di volerle ascoltare. Vivo a Catania, dove ho frequentato il liceo scientifico Principe Umberto di Savoia. Dopo il diploma, ho viaggiato spesso alla ricerca della “Fotografia”. Amo farmi trasportare dalla Fotografia, spesso non c’è un’idea chiara né un percorso stabilito, ma so che c’è sempre una nuova meta, qualcosa di nuovo e di diverso da scoprire, assaporare e tramandare. E’ questo che amo e che mi affascina di più della fotografia, nonostante i tanti anni e le diverse esperienze, la Fotografia riesce sempre a sorprendermi. Ho colto sempre ogni buona occasione per viaggiare alla scoperta dell’Europa, ho fotografato tanto, ho avuto l’opportunità di incontrare diverse anime fotografiche, di scoprire diversi punti di vista, diverse luci e diverse atmosfere. Ho assorbito istintivamente il loro essere e tutto questo oggi è Marco Ficili. La mia formazione tecnica ha seguito strade più convenzionali, scuole e corsi di fotografia mi hanno permesso di vivere e conoscere città come Milano, Firenze, Londra e Berlino. Qualche anno fa ho incontrato Barbara, con cui condivido la vita e la passione per la fotografia. Questo ci ha portato a non riconoscere alcun confine tra il lavoro e il tempo libero. A noi piace cosi! Con un lavoro come il nostro, che è più una passione che un dovere, non potrebbe essere altrimenti. Mi piace molto vivere il mare e vado a trovarlo ogni volta che posso. Amo viaggiare e conoscere posti nuovi, dai centri più piccoli e meno famosi alle grandi metropoli del nostro tempo. Mi piace giocare a tennis e mi rilasso leggendo romanzi o saggi... indovinate un po’... di fotografia! Un’altra mia grande passione è la cucina. Sperimento e cerco nuove soluzioni, anche in cucina! Alla fine i piatti che preparo rimangono solo degli esperimenti dedicati a me e mia moglie… forse è meglio così! Nel 2000 ho aperto il mio studio fotografico nella città in cui vivo, Catania. Ho iniziato a lavorare nel campo della pubblicità, dell’editoria e in quello della ritrattistica in studio. Sono riuscito a creare una nicchia nel campo della fotografia tradizionale matrimoniale, imponendo insieme al mio staff la verità e la spontaneità quali parole d’ordine del nostro modo di intendere la fotografia di matrimonio. Ho istintivamente scardinato alcuni dei classici schemi della fotografia tradizionale di matrimonio restituendo centralità all’evento e ai suoi protagonisti. I clienti amano i miei servizi fotografici perché si distinguono per lo stile spontaneo e insieme evocativo e io amo i miei clienti perché sanno distinguere, sanno apprezzare e sanno scegliere ciò che realmente li emoziona. Ho avuto la soddisfazione di essere stato citato, premiato e pubblicato dal WPJA “Wedding Photo Journalism Association”, dalla TAU VISUAL, e da White Sposa e Vogue Sposa. Premi? Qualcuno, quelli giusti per un buon Curriculum! Che dire… What else?

Taormina Wedding, Where Analog Meets Modern Romance!Swipe to the end!Everything before it was shot on black and white fi...
26/08/2026

Taormina Wedding, Where Analog Meets Modern Romance!

Swipe to the end!

Everything before it was shot on black and white film that expired twenty years ago.
A roll that old doesn’t cooperate. It has lost sensitivity, it drifts, it grains, it decides on its own what to hold and what to let go.
You can’t impose anything on it. You can only overexpose a little, slow down, and accept that some of the frame belongs to the film and not to you.
What comes back is strange and beautiful: Villa Mon Repos in the late afternoon, undated. Bridesmaids taking a selfie in a room that could be 2005. A veil folded over an armchair, softened into something that looks remembered rather than photographed. Isola Bella from the terrace, sitting in the haze like an old postcard.

And then there is Jade and Josh, a wedding in 2026, with modern dresses, modern faces, modern light.
Two materials that shouldn’t agree. They only work together if each one gives something up: the film gives up its precision, the day gives up its perfection. Neither wins. Something better appears in between.
Which is more or less what happens in a couple. Two people arrive from different places, with different textures, and the ones who last are not the ones who overwrite each other, they are the ones who leave room. Balance, and a certain mutual gentleness.

Twenty-year-old film met a wedding in Taormina and neither pretended to be the other.
The colour film is the last slide.

21/08/2026

SCICLI ELOPEMENT MAGIC begins beneath the aristocratic frescoes of Palazzo Bonelli-Patanè, where Lindsay and Mark exchanged their vows.
After wandering through the warm baroque stone streets of via Mormino Penna, their journey found its perfect contrast on the golden dunes of Sampieri beach.
As the sun dipped below the horizon, the untamed soul of the Mediterranean Sea became the ultimate backdrop.
From timeless architecture to bare feet in the sand, this destination wedding captures the absolute essence of Sicilian light and romance.

Engaged Above the Ionian Sea | Taormina 🤍Nobody plans the hour after.The proposal itself lasts maybe ninety seconds, he ...
18/08/2026

Engaged Above the Ionian Sea | Taormina 🤍

Nobody plans the hour after.
The proposal itself lasts maybe ninety seconds, he kneels, she says yes, the ring goes on. What comes next is longer and looser and, honestly, my favourite part to photograph. Stephanie kept holding her hand up to the light like she was still checking. Adam couldn’t stop grinning.
They walked the paths of the Villa Comunale in Taormina with the Ionian Sea below them and Etna smudged blue on the horizon, and by the time we reached the old stone arches they’d forgotten there was a camera at all.
Somewhere in there they jumped, both feet off the ground, in front of a wall of Sicilian stone.
That one made me laugh out loud behind the viewfinder.
An engagement in Sicily suits people who are already this comfortable with each other. Nothing to perform. Just an evening in Taormina that got very good, very fast.

Chiesa di San Giuseppe, Taormina — Where Nadeen & Sebastian Said YesThere’s a moment, just before the doors open, when T...
07/08/2026

Chiesa di San Giuseppe, Taormina — Where Nadeen & Sebastian Said Yes

There’s a moment, just before the doors open, when Taormina goes quiet.
Inside the Chiesa di San Giuseppe, the light comes down soft through white stucco and gilded scrollwork, and everything narrows to two people at the altar.
Nadeen and Sebastian said yes here, in one of the most beautiful churches in Sicily, with their families close enough to hear every word.
Then the doors opened again, and Piazza IX Aprile was waiting. Petals in the air, hands reaching, that first kiss on the steps with the old stone church rising warm behind them.
A vintage Fiat 500 idling at the bottom, ready to carry them off through the narrow streets of the old town.
Later, the day travelled up to Villa Mon Repos, where long tables were set on the lawn and the bay of Naxos turned to gold below.
But the church is where it began. Some rooms hold a promise better than others.

Photography and film by Marco Ficili Studio, destination wedding photographer in Taormina and across Sicily.

Taormina Wedding at Villa Mon Repos — Alessia & Stefano ✨There’s a particular kind of light in Taormina at golden hour, ...
04/08/2026

Taormina Wedding at Villa Mon Repos — Alessia & Stefano ✨

There’s a particular kind of light in Taormina at golden hour, the kind that turns lace into something luminous and stone into something soft.
Alessia and Stefano said yes inside the baroque intimacy of Chiesa del Varò, then carried the celebration through the sun-warmed streets of Corso Umberto, past bougainvillea and centuries-old façades, all the way to the sea-facing terraces of Villa Mon Repos.
It was a day made of small, unforgettable things: a bride’s quiet reflection in an antique mirror, calla lilies against handmade lace, laughter shared with the people who love them most, and a reception glowing under candlelight with Etna and the bay of Naxos on the horizon.
This is what a Taormina destination wedding feels like: timeless, sensory, and unmistakably Sicilian.

Ceremony: Chiesa del Varò, Taormina
Reception:

📍 Marco Ficili Studio | marcoficili.it | Taormina-Noto-Sicily | Documentary Wedding & Film Photography

Taormina, Blue Hour: A Wedding Above the Bay 🌙Everything happened up here. Taormina sits on a terrace of rock and the wh...
01/08/2026

Taormina, Blue Hour: A Wedding Above the Bay 🌙

Everything happened up here. Taormina sits on a terrace of rock and the whole day of this wedding stayed on it, four hundred metres over the Ionian Sea, with Etna keeping watch from the far side of the water.
Villa Mon Repos hangs right at the edge of it. Jade got ready with five girls, one bottle of champagne and a veil that spilled across the floor, and outside the window, Isola Bella, the boats, the blue going on forever. Josh waited on the terrace with the bay behind him and said nothing for a while.
They married at the Chiesa di San Giuseppe, at the top of the staircase above Piazza IX Aprile. Gilded, small, warm with people who had flown in from England. When the doors opened they came out to applause, to the belvedere, to the sea sitting there at eye level as if it had been invited.
Then a white Beetle through the lanes, the Corso parting around them, strangers clapping from balconies.
And at the end of it, the hour this whole set is named for: the light going deep blue over the gulf, the lawn below the villa laid out in two long white curves under strings of bulbs, Etna soft and grey, the party just beginning above the bay.

24/07/2026

Salty breeze, warm lights, and pre-wedding magic in Sicily ✨

A romantic couple walking through the historic stone streets of Taormina and dancing at a sunset beach party with warm lights by the sea in Giardini Naxos. As a wedding photographer in Sicily, capturing this pre-wedding session was pure magic. The salty sea breeze, the golden hour reflecting on the water, and the joyful energy of their guests created an unforgettable atmosphere. This is the art of a Sicily wedding storyteller, preserving candid moments before their destination wedding Sicily.

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