My name is Claudio Comi, I am a photographer born and raised in Italy. Photography has been with me since I was a child. I remember the hours spent with my father in the dark room we had in the cellar. I remember the coloured lights, the waiting, the smell of paper, the images emerging magically.

As an adult I always enjoyed taking pictures in the wilderness, but I was living in a city and struggled to find inspiration. After several frustrating years of work in Italy, I decided to listen to myself and I left with a one-way ticket to Australia. A working holiday in Australia, an extremely wild country, reignited my passion for photography almost immediately and it has never left me again.

From deserts to rain-forests to the arctic tundra, I’ve been lucky enough to photograph various landscapes and wildlife over 10 years throughout Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Europe and Italy. But it was a winter spent in Iceland that I saw my first Aurora Borealis – an experience that completely changed my life.

Since that moment I’ve spent my winters hunting for what is, in my opinion, the most beautiful natural phenomenon that the human eye is able to see, until I finally found my place in the world in Abisko and the ever-changing light conditions of the North. So I have been working steadily as a photographer and guide in Abisko since 2019 for a company specialising in Aurora photography Lights Over Lapland.

In any case, my interest in the Arctic has never been linked only to the phenomenon of the Northern Lights. The Arctic is a unique and fragile world made of a complex and moving beauty. Wonderful landscapes, immense spaces, a unique and constantly changing light and a nature that is still mostly uncontaminated.

If Abisko is my winter home, the Western Alps are my spring and summer home. In fact, I live the other half of my year on the shores of the wonderful Lake Orta, a stone's throw from the beautiful Strona Valley, the Val Grande National Park and the Ossola Valley with its wonderful wild mountains. After years away from home, this is where my energy and my photography are concentrated when I'm not in Abisko. These are my two worlds, my two homes where I always leave a piece of my heart.