About
Perfection makes me uncomfortable, because I perceive it as illusory. Instead, I feel at home and I get excited when, in my exploration of reality, I come across the note that is slightly at odds with the orderly balance one generally aims for.
I can perceive and understand the actual beauty of order but, more or less unconsciously, I always find myself looking for the little distractions everywhere in a world that – to varying degrees – strives to be impeccable.
My eyes get captivated and my imagination starts working when it comes into contact with these tiny distortions within a harmonic system; perhaps because I grew up in Rome, a city where the majesty of imperial, classical and ecclesiastical legacies is constantly diluted in the noisy habits of the Mediterranean. These off-key notes amuse and reassure me, as they lead me to imagine how they were generated. By exposing them, I recognize and accept the fundamentally imperfect and paradoxical essence of the human condition.
The use of this spontaneous point of view within the documentary stories that I choose to represent, allows me to share an affectionate, positive and participatory vision of diversity, of the undervalued and the extravagant.
I live in Marseille, France.
- Awards/
- 2021 Bourse des amis du Musée d’Albert Kahn – Finalist
- 2020 Scam, Brouillon d’un rêve – Shortlisted
- 2020 6Mois, Prix du Photojournalisme – Shortlisted
- 2019 Burn Emerging Fund – Shortlisted
- 2013 International Dummy Awards 2013, Kassel – Shortlisted
- 2012 SONY Award, Section Fine Arts-Portrait – Shortlisted
- Exhibitions /
- 2024 – Roma Chilometro Zero, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Roma, Italy
- 2024 – A.A.A.A. Avventure Atomiche d’Agosto e d’Asfalto, Leica Store Roma, Italy
- 2024 – FotoFestiwal, Lødz, Poland
- 2023 – Photaumnales Festival, Parc Dassault, Beauvais, France
- 2018 – LSPF, London Street Photography Festival, Hackney Wick, UK
- 2017 – “FuoriCentro” Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza, Italy
- 2014 – Self Publish Riga, Riga, Latvia
- 2014 – FRAMES / projecting international photography, Glasgow, UK
- 2013 – “Medio Oriente: de donde?” Encuentros Fotograficos Mexico, Cholula, Mexico
- 2013 – Dummy Award Festival, MIA Milan image art fair/ PhotoIreland Festival Dublin/ Le Bal Paris/ Photobook Festival Kassel
- 2013 – Padova Fotografia Festival, Padova, Italy
- 2012 – Festival Photo Off, La Bellevilloise, Paris, France
- 2012 – Photobook Festival, La Pelanda, Macro Testaccio, Roma, Italy
- 2012 – Px3, Prix de la Photographie, Paris, Espace Dupon
- 2012 – La Primavera Araba – Convergenza delle Culture, Rome, Italy