Pretty early I felt the need to get in contact with different environments.
When I was 16 I went abroad for one year and there I started to discover photography. The distance to what was familiar to me offered the condition to see things from another point of view. However, after all those years my latest work Libro di famiglia deals with habits and traditions of my own country. So I can say that my origins are still quite present.

My main subject in Genova was painting. After that I was looking for photography studies to learn more about the technique and delve into storytelling. At that time, I had already a particular connection with Berlin and there I found an interesting program, which made it possible for me to combine 2 positions - a classical attitude and a more progressive one.

I’m surely influenced by my experience and my surroundings, but as you said, the universal level of the work is the most important thing to give a key of lecture to the reader. It’s really interesting to hear all the different family habits from people, not just Italian, looking at Libro di famiglia. The warmth of the non-extraordinary.

I wouldn't call it a symbol, but of course the light is a main medium. I am always working with natural available light. In my opinion it gives me many more possibilities in creating an organic and authentic surface.

Actually, it started 10 years ago when I first came to Germany that cellophane or transparent plastic attracted my attention and headed among others to I as you. It was really weird going to the supermarket and buying vegetables and fruits which were all wrapped up in plastic. it was somehow the first time facing the globalized food industry, its sterility and alienation. In Libro di famiglia the cellophane reoccurred more accidentally as preservation and protection which, in the end, also leads to a cold distance and somehow disaffection.

Yes, I am interested in perception, people's instinct of classifying all their surroundings and therefore identity. My projects are not about finding my own identity, although the experience resulted through it certainly influences my personal position.

First of all I have to mention Luigi Ghirri, one of the first Italian artists using Color photography who left, already in the 70s, the way of naturalism as a copy of reality to a more opinional way. After that I‘m very fascinated by the work of Fischli & Weiss, which I didn't know until I moved to Germany.

At the beginning I was working with 35mm and instant film cameras. I was always attached to analogue photography. Now I shoot mainly with Hasselblad medium format.

I just finished Libro di famiglia which I worked on for nearly two years. Right now I am working as an assistant for an artist and as a freelance photographer. Besides that, I am researching and collecting materials for a new project, that hasn't got a concrete shape yet.