Back in 2015 I’ve gone through a “One Camera, One Lens, One Year” (OCOLOY) project. You may see the resulting photographs here. The project was a nice idea and, at that time, it was a collaborative effort by many photographers: …
Iddu (Stromboli Nights)
Stromboli is a small island in the northern part of the Eolian archipelago. One of the most active volcano in the world, emerging 1.000 mt from a deep blu sea, kwon as “Iddu” (which in Sicilian means “Him”) for it’s …
45 Giorni (Covid-19) @ Houston Center for Photography – Togethering
Alcune delle foto del mio ultimo lavoro, 45 Giorni (Covid-19), sono state selezionate per la mostra online Togethering, a cura dell’Houston Center for Photography.
45 Days (Covid-19)
April, 24th, 2020. It’s now day 45 of my lockdown. COVID-19 in Sicily has been, so far, not particularly deadly. As of today, in my region, 2.926 positive cases and 213 deaths. Comparing to other regions in Italy, such as …
2019 recap: 19 Suspended photographs
This year I decided to complete my Suspended project that is going to become soon a book. This is a recap of the photographs I took in 2019 following my idea of a Suspended Sicily. With this I wish all …
Joel Meyerowitz on Suspended
I had the pleasure, back in 2012, to be one of the authors selected for the Photomed Festival in Sanary Sur Mer. The master of the show was Joel Meyerowitz, a photographer that has always been for me a constant source of …
Why this photo marks my story as a photographer
This post is about a place and a photograph that has been meaningful for my evolution as a photographer. ear with me through this memory flow as the first facts happened on April, 19th, 2007. 11 years ago, five year …
Cuba with two small cameras
Cuba. A photographer’s dream. One of the most iconic and photographed places on earth. I was thinking to all this while buying the tickets, for me, my wife and Vittorio (our 4 years old toddler) to spend 3 weeks of …
(Sic) Transit Cuba (2017)
We are living in a time of accelerated change, I write in my Artist Statement. Cuba is one of those places where few things changed in the last decades. So where is the transition? How things will change in the future? …
Suspended: new photographs
I’ve added new photographs, taken this summer, to “Suspended”, my always on photo project on a never changing Sicily. This was shot in the small Island of Portopalo, southern coast of Sicily, and represent the statue of Maria Santissima Scala …