Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli
Encyclopedia
Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli is a professional photographer and world traveler. Dominic spent several months on assignment co-hosting the travel TV series Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled
, airing internationally beginning November 2009 on the National Geographic Adventure
Channel, hunting down new travel experiences in Colombia
, Spain
, and northern Mexico
.
A graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts
with a degree in Film Production/Cinematography, he is represented by Getty Images
(NY), AGE Fotostock (Spain) and Lonely Planet
Images (Australia). His award-winning editorial work has been featured in Variety
, Forbes
, The Wall Street Journal
, Lonely Planet
and Rick Steves
' Europe Through the Backdoor guidebooks. His coverage of celebrities includes Sherman Alexie
, Kenneth Branagh
, photo and film projects for Irish tenor Michael Londra
, a concert film entitled Beginnings for Celtic world band An Dóchas, and numerous years covering the Seattle International Film Festival
.
Participating artist in the MTV/VH1 Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief
, backed by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, broadcast January 2010 and raising US $61 million to benefit those directly affected by the 2010 Haiti earthquake
. Dominic’s Haitian photographs provided the backdrops for performances by Shakira, Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Leonardo di Caprio and others.
Author and photographer in the SMITH Magazine 2008 New York Times BestSelling book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs
, with a cast of fellow participants including Stephen Colbert, Deepak Chopra, Moby and others.
Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled
Roads Less Travelled is a reality-based travel series documenting Lonely Planet authors and photographers researching content for Lonely Planet guidebooks in realtime on the ground. Airing internationally beginning in November 2009 on the National Geographic Adventure , the program is a...
, airing internationally beginning November 2009 on the National Geographic Adventure
National Geographic Adventure
National Geographic Adventure, formerly known as Adventure One but now commonly known as Nat Geo Adventure, is a subscription TV channel part of National Geographic Channels International and News Corporation...
Channel, hunting down new travel experiences in Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, and northern Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
.
A graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts
USC School of Cinematic Arts
The USC School of Cinematic Arts, until 2006 named the School of Cinema-Television , is a film school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest and largest such school in the United States, established in 1929 as a joint venture with the Academy of...
with a degree in Film Production/Cinematography, he is represented by Getty Images
Getty Images
Getty Images, Inc. is a stock photo agency, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is a supplier of stock images for business and consumers with an archive of 80 million still images and illustrations and more than 50,000 hours of stock film footage...
(NY), AGE Fotostock (Spain) and Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book and digital media publisher in the world. The company is owned by BBC Worldwide, which bought a 75% share from the founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler in 2007 and the final 25% in February 2011...
Images (Australia). His award-winning editorial work has been featured in Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
, Forbes
Forbes
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book and digital media publisher in the world. The company is owned by BBC Worldwide, which bought a 75% share from the founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler in 2007 and the final 25% in February 2011...
and Rick Steves
Rick Steves
Richard "Rick" Steves is an American author and television personality focusing on European travel. He is the host of the American Public Television series Rick Steves' Europe, has a public radio travel show, Travel with Rick Steves, and has authored various location-specific travel...
' Europe Through the Backdoor guidebooks. His coverage of celebrities includes Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American. Two of Alexie's best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , a book of short stories and Smoke Signals, a film...
, Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from...
, photo and film projects for Irish tenor Michael Londra
Michael Londra
-Biography:At the beginning of his career, Michael Londra performed numerous roles in Ireland, including the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Pish Tush in Hot Mikado, Charlie in Brigadoon, Joe in Some Like It Hot, the title role in the concert version of Martin Guerre...
, a concert film entitled Beginnings for Celtic world band An Dóchas, and numerous years covering the Seattle International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
The Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees...
.
Career
Travel Photographer for Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Backdoor, creators of the televised travel-show spawned from the guidebook & touring company based in Edmonds, WA USAParticipating artist in the MTV/VH1 Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief was a charity telethon held on January 22, 2010 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time . The telethon was the most widely distributed telethon in history...
, backed by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, broadcast January 2010 and raising US $61 million to benefit those directly affected by the 2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicentre near the town of Léogâne, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks...
. Dominic’s Haitian photographs provided the backdrops for performances by Shakira, Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Leonardo di Caprio and others.
Author and photographer in the SMITH Magazine 2008 New York Times BestSelling book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs
Six-Word Memoirs
Six-Word Memoirs is a project founded by the U.S.-based online storytelling magazine Smith Magazine. Like that publication, Six-Word Memoirs seek to provide a platform for storytelling in all its forms.-History:...
, with a cast of fellow participants including Stephen Colbert, Deepak Chopra, Moby and others.