Born in 1985, I graduated in Cultural Anthropology after studies of Classical Piano, Visual Arts and Statistical Sciences. I enjoy philosophizing about life and the universe. I speak four languages and I always try to learn some more.

When I was 23, on a four months journey decided by the flip of a coin, I ‘lost’ my camera and all the pictures I took in two months on the Andes. Still, the following period was one of the most amazing I ever had: living essentially, day by day, I learned to privilege and seek deep experience over frantic chase of the picture. I learned a lot.

The next year I was on assignment in Trento, when after his conference the Dalai Lama shook my hand for some reason I still don’t get completely.

Since 2009 I work with Collettivo Fotosocial with the aim of using photography to spread awareness of the human condition. We organized talks, workshops and exhibitions even on the top of Marmolada mountain in the Dolomites.

In 2011-2012, while working in an ethnographic research project, I experienced the thrill of dancing with the dead in a remote area of Madagascar.

In 2013, with an esteemed friend, we initiated a long-term research project in Romania. As part of the investigation we had a unique chance to observe, document and experience very intensively the effects of social exclusion from the inside of the street. Literally.
The outcome of this work was awarded and published worldwide.
A book – Inside Outside Under Bucharest – sums up that mind-blowing odyssey.

In 2014, while in Romania, I fell in love with a gypsy girl. That brought me even deeper into an other world. Here I’ll skip the story that lasted three years. We eventually had to go our separate ways, but I still keep dear memories and pictures.

In 2018, after a drastic change of life, I decided to make base in the Sicilian countryside and in 2019 I produced my first extra virgin olive oil from the land of my great grandparents.

In 2020, I spent the whole of Covid lockdown on assignment in Venice. Not only documenting the surreal emptiness of one of the most touristic cities in the world, but also discovering some amazing Venetians, who magically appeared on the freed stage.

I’m currently staying in Sicily, at the crossroads between ancient roots and different new perspectives for the future.

I still don’t know exactly who I am.
(Socrates, forgive me!)

Interviews

National Geographic – US
Talking Pictures - Australia
Photoworld – China (printed)
ARTE Channel – France/Germany
PF Magazine – Netherlands
Feature Shoot – UK
Nat Geo – Pictures we love

Awards

2017 – Prix ANI, Visa pour l’image
2017 – Prix de public Nuit de la photo
2016 – Kaunas Festival Best Portfolio
2016 – World Report Award, Finalist
2016 – Hannover Festival Public Award
2016 – Gomma Photography Grant
2015 – Prix Pictet Nomination
2015 – Getty Reportage Emerging Talent
2015 – Lucie Emerging Scholarship
2015 – Magnum Photos: 30 Under 30s
2014 – Fund Humanitarian Photography

Exhibitions

2017 Gobelins école, Paris (France)
2017 FotoHaus Paris/Berlin, Arles (France)
2017 WBH Freundeskreis Berlin (Germany)
2017 Nuit de la photo (Switzerland)
2016 Antiruggine, CastelfrancoV. (Italy)
2016 Bushwick Darkroom, New York (USA)
2016 Kaunas Festival, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2016 Les ateliers de Couthures (France)
2016 Lumix Festival Hannover (Germany)
2016 Social PhotoFest, Perugia (Italy)
2015 OrganVida Festival, Zagreb (Croatia)
2015 Photography Show, Birmingham (UK)