Claudio Bergamin is a Chilean/Italian digital painter

Digital painting

Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, impasto, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. Traditional painting is painting with a physical medium as opposed to a...

 and photographer. He works mainly with rock bands creating album covers and visual imagery. His work also includes advertising photography, digital matte painting

Matte painting

A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build or visit. Historically, matte painters and film technicians have used various techniques...

 and comic books.

Artwork

Bergamin's style could be defined as fantasy illustration as well as fantasy photomanipulation. He uses combined tools like photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

, digital illustration

Digital illustration

Computer illustration or digital illustration is the use of digital tools to produce images under the direct manipulation of the artist, usually through a pointing device such as a tablet or a mouse. It is distinguished from computer-generated art, which is produced by a computer using mathematical...

 and Retouching to produce his artwork. He has created artwork for several rock and metal bands from Europe and America such as Paradox, Criminal, Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit (Chilean band)

Fahrenheit is a hard rock band from Santiago, Chile, deeply influenced by 1980s and '70s rock legends such us Aerosmith, Mötley Crüe and Skid Row...

, At War, north-American progressive band Circle II Circle, polish band Made of Hate  and Chilean pop icons Lucybell

Lucybell

Lucybell is a Chilean rock band formed by four students from the Universidad de Chile's Faculty of Art in 1991, in Santiago de Chile. The original four members were:* Francisco González: drums, bass, percussion, keyboards...

 

Personal life

He studied Fine Arts in Valparaíso

Valparaíso

Valparaíso is a city and commune of Chile, center of its third largest conurbation and one of the country's most important seaports and an increasing cultural center in the Southwest Pacific hemisphere. The city is the capital of the Valparaíso Province and the Valparaíso Region...

, Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 until he moved to Italy and then to London (UK) to work as a professional photographer and Retoucher for several years. He now lives in Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

where he is working full time on a graphic novel.