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:

• In 2014 I won Sony world photography Awards, panoramic category with one of my images, “Starry lighthouse”.
• I won the 2014 Panobook contest as the best panoramic photographer 2014.
• 1st place at the Moscow INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS 2014 in panoramic category.
• I was finalist in the HIPA 2014, night category.
• In 2016 I won the third place in nature category in the Siena International photo awards with the panoramic nightscape of Italian Dolomites.
• I was finalist at HIPA 2016 in the black & white category and portfolio.
• In 2016 I was finalist at the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016.
• In 2017 I won the Silver medal at Moscow INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS in nature landscape category.
• I had an honorable mention at OASIS Photo contest 2017.
• I won the nature category in the FotoNoja 2017 photography contest in Spain.
• In 2018 I won the landscape category at the Oasis Photo Contest and the title Italian Oasis photographer 2018
• Winner at the Goldenturtle 2018
• Winner in landscape category at the Fotonoja 2018
• 2019 Highly commended in the 29th Memorial Maria Luisa in mountain landscape category.
• 2019 Honorable Mention at the Cadiz photo nature
• 2019 Category Winner at the 23° Festival Photo Montier
• Finalist at the Travel Photographer of the Year 2019.
• 2019, December 4th, my picture Electric night published as APOD NASA, astronomy picture of the day.
• 2020 Winner of category at the Glanzlichter 2020
• 2020 winner at the Festival la Pedriza contest in landscape category.
• 2020 winner at the Wildmad photo contest in landscape category
• 2020 second place at the FIIN contest in portugal in landscape category.
• 2020 winner in the Bellesa contest in Sardinia of the ministry of cultural heritage.
• 2021 Honorable mention in the italian contest Obiettivo terra
• 2021 Honorable Mention at the 31st Maria Luisa Memorial
• 2021 Honorable Mention at BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition
• 2021 Winner at NatureTTL in the night category
• 2022, Overall winner, magnificent wilderness at the Glanzlichter 2022.