Ivan Pedretti, ho studiato ingegneria chimica a Cagliari, altra mia passione la chimica, ma verso il 2010 mi sono dedicato alla fotografia e dal 2014 sono un fotografo professionista di Cagliari, Sardegna. La maggior parte dei miei scatti sono paesaggi panoramici e notturne. In questi anni ho ricevuto molti riconoscimenti importanti tra i quali:
2014 Winner Sony World Photography Awards with "Starry Lighthouse / 2015
Honorable mentions Epson Pano Awards
/2016
3rd place nature category Siena International Photo Awards with a nightscape of the Dolomites
Honorable mentions The World at Night Photo Contest
Finalist HIPA, black & white and portfolio
Finalist Travel Photographer of the Year /
2017
Silver medal Moscow International Foto Awards, nature landscape category
Silver Award 8th Epson International Pano Awards
Honorable mention Oasis Photo Contest
Winner nature category FotoNoja, Spain

/ 2018
Finalist VITE IN VIAGGIO
Finalist "Everyday Climbers" by Levissima
Winner landscape Oasis Photo Contest and Italian Oasis Photographer
Winner Goldenturtle
Winner landscape Fotonoja

/ 2019
Highly commended 29th Memorial Maria Luisa, mountain landscape category
Jury member Golden Turtle
Honorable mention Cadiz Photo Nature
Category winner 23rd Festival Photo Montier
Finalist Travel Photographer of the Year
"Electric Night" published as NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day on December 4

/ 2020
Category winner Glanzlichter
Winner Festival La Pedriza, landscape category
Winner Wildmad Photo Contest, landscape category
2nd place FIIN contest Portugal, landscape category
Winner Bellesa contest in Sardinia by Ministry of Cultural Heritage

/ 2021
Honorable mention Obiettivo Terra
Honorable mention 31st Maria Luisa Memorial
Honorable mention BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition
Winner NatureTTL, night category

/ 2022
Overall winner Glanzlichter, magnificent wilderness
Honorable mention The Nature Conservancy
Honorable mention Nature TTL Photographer of the Year
Remarkable mention Siena International Photo Awards
2nd prize Montphoto

/ 2023
Winner landscape 3rd La Pedriza photo contest
Honorable mention 33rd Memorial Maria Luisa, landscape section
Honorable mention landscape Oasis Photo Contest Roero
Honorable mention Vienna International Photography Award
Finalist Biophoto
Honorable mention Nature Best Photography

/ 2024
Winner World Nature Photography Awards, Planet Earth’s landscapes and environments category
Platinum winner MUSE Photography Awards