Augusto De Luca is an Italian photographer. He was born in Naples on 1 July 1955 and is known for his portraits. He studied law. In 1995 he moved to Rome, and in 2001 he returned to Naples. Since 2004 he has also worked as a performance artist.
In 1996 he published Roma Nostra (Gangemi Editore), which won the Città di Roma prize. His work is in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Municipal Photographic Archive of Rome, the International Polaroid Collection, the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi and the China National Aesthetic Arts Gallery in Beijing.
His series Armageddon uses skulls, helmets, masks and other objects to speak about war without showing war directly. He made it with a small Leica D-Lux 5 and found many of the objects in museums in Naples.
