Simone Cecchetti

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Simone Cecchetti (born September 14, 1973) is an Italian portrait photographer.

In his career, Cecchetti has been photographing music and entertainment performers in Europe and Japan. His portfolio contains pictures taken in more than 1000 concerts for over 600 artists.{{Cite web | title=Portfolio| work=SimoneCecchetti.com | url=http://www.simonececchetti.com/live/portfolios.htm}} His portrait of Mick Jagger has been chosen for the exhibition "Mick Jagger. The photobook", which was presented in the French photography festival Rencontres d'Arles in summer 2010.

Among other portraits: Madonna, Nick Cave, Aerosmith, U2, Depeche Mode, George Michael, Lady Gaga, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen.

His pictures have been published on Rolling Stone, GQ, Mojo. He works for Corbis, the American image licensing company founded by Bill Gates.

In 2010 he has been chosen to photograph the mounting and the opening of MAXXI in Rome, the contemporary arts museum designed by Zaha Hadid.

In 2011 his Visions project focused on the artistic content within music shows.

In the same year his picture of ZZ Top was selected to be in the book Music:Box, edited by Gino Castaldo and published by Contrasto.{{Cite web | title=Music:Box| work=ContrastoBooks | url=http://www.contrastobooks.com/vmchk/Catalogo/MUSICBOX.html}} The same book has been translated and published worldwide by six other publishers.{{Cite web | title=Box series Editorial project| work=Le Journal de la Photographie | url=http://lejournaldelaphotographie.com/archives/by_date/2012-11-09/9194/box-series-editorial-project}}

In 2011 Cecchetti started to work with A.S. Roma, with the aim to transfer his rock and roll style in sportsmen portraits.

In 2012 his pictures are used for some album covers, Niccolo Fabi (Ecco), Marina Rei (La conseguenza naturale dell'errore), Alessandro Grazian (Armi), Roberto Angelini (Phineas Gage), Andy Timmons (Plays Sgt Pepper), Malika Ayane e Japandroids.

In 2013, the cover for Una Rosa Blanca (Zucchero Fornaciari) and the pictures from Simone Cristicchi (Album di Famiglia), Fiorella Mannoia (A te), Eros Ramazzotti (Noi Due), Francesco Forni and Ilaria Graziano (From Bedlam to Lenane), Vinicio Capossela e la Banda della posta, Tommy Emmanuel (Live and Solo in Pensacola).

In 2014 the cover for Alessandro Mannarino (Al Monte), Tommy Emmanuel (The Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emmanuel), Deborah Iurato (Deborah Iurato), Giada Agasucci (Da Capo), Tosca (Il suono della voce), Diodato (A ritrovar bellezza), Fabrizio Bosso e Julian Oliver Mazzariello (Tandem), Fabrizio Bosso e Marco Moreggia (Magic Susi), Ilaria Graziano and Francesco Forni (Come 2 Me).

In 2015 the cover of L'amore si muove ("Love Moves") is the fourth studio album by Italian operatic pop trio Il Volo.

From 2016 is a Contour photographer for Getty, the American image licensing company.

In the 2018, the cover for Zerovskij (Renato Zero), Eco di Sirene (Carmen Consoli), Tommy Emmanuel (Accomplice One) and the pictures for Alt in Tour (Renato Zero).

In the 2019 (Teresa De Sio) for the lp Puro desiderio , Rockstar Mai by Young Signorino and Vinicio Capossela Ballate per uomini e bestie, directed and filmed the videoclip Di città in città (e porta l’orso).

In 2022 the release of the bio-doc on Sky Arte “Chi è Simone Cecchetti?” introduced by Renato Zero, Fiorella Mannoia, Paul Gilbert, Tommy Emmanuel, Daniele Silvestri, Diodato, Niccolò Fabi, Nina Zilli, Max Gazzè and more.

In 2023 the Music Photography Academy, the first academy dedicated to the music photography and MONO, a concept magazine.

An exhibition One thousand fabulous faces with one thousand different artists taken live in concert opened at Palazzo Brancaccio for five months.

The photo cover for Saverio Raimondo Live a Studio 33, Bach Transcription Mario Brunello, Accomplice Two (Tommy Emmanuel) and the cover of the first ever pop concert at Teatro Alla Scala starring Paolo Conte, Paolo Conte Alla Scala - Il Maestro È Nell'anima and the documentary.