To trace the journalistic career of ARALDO di CROLLALANZA it would take not a few facts we are doing here, but more likely an entire book. Born in Rome, Italy in 1940, Araldo di Crollalanza became a photographer when he received a camera as a gift from his parents for having ended his high school term at age 15 with excellent grades. His father, who at that time was the editor-in-chief of an important newspaper in Rome, offered him the possibility to cover the Venice Film Festival of that year as helper to his special reporter, Ugo Zavattin.

Short time later, Araldo began a career that became dominant on the European scene, first working as a 'Paparazzo' on the Via Veneto Street in Rome, at the time in 1961 FEDERICO FELLINI was shooting his famous LA DOLCE VITA, Araldo's scoop' at that time were the first pictures of ELIZABETH TAYLOR kissing RICHARD BURTON on a boat in Ischia. Araldo then moved to London in 1963, where he studied photography and journalism and had the opportunity to work as an assistant for such renowned photographers as DAVID BAILEY, DAVID HAMILTON and LORD SNOWDON.

London was really the place where di Crollalanza became quite famous on the Fleet Street scene. Some of his first pictures of JOHN LENNON and YOKO ONO, when no one knew they were in love, made headlines in news papers and magazines all over the world. Araldo continued his career in London and made numerous trips to Paris, France, where he covered successfully the students' insurrection riots of May 1968 and began completing assignments for very important magazines of England, France, Italy and Japan on celebrities in the fields of entertainment, art and sports.

In 1973, Araldo was sent to Hollywood for the first time by an important French magazine to cover special stories with important celebrities. His first three photo-interviews where with HENRY FONDA, CARY GRANT and FRED ASTAIRE, many others followed. For seven years, Araldo spent his life on the airplanes traveling from his home in Paris to Hollywood and New York, covering celebrity interviews on both sides of the Atlantic and making a name for himself. In the early eighties he chose Los Angeles as the place to live and continue his career.

Today, a Los Angelino since 1982, Araldo continues his career with success as a photographer and journalist working on assignments for important European magazines and at the same time acting as the official correspondent of a Spanish and Latin American group.

Araldo di Crollalanza's journalistic passion renders him extremely adept at finding general interest stories, travel features and up-and-coming celebrity figures.