IN A NUTSHELL:
- IED Milano
- Photography - 2016
- Freelance photojournalist
YOU NOW:
I'm a freelance photojournalist. It means that I produce works independently or commissioned by magazines. I'm based in Milan, where I collaborate with several people, but obviously, I travel a lot for work. From a working perspective, I am focused on issues concerning man and his bond with the surrounding environment. In this regard, lately, I have been following the trend of the new normal by documenting how humans are adapting to the pandemic. In the future, I would love to combine my career as a photojournalist with that of a teacher. I would love to be present in the growth of a student.
CREATIVITY:
I chose the IED because I wanted to turn my passion into work. At school, I learned how important it was to collaborate with students from other courses in order to improve myself as a photographer. I have always thought that learning graphics or videos were essential both to sell your work and to have a methodology in the field. All those friendships have now turned into real business contacts. And it's nice to find yourself working with friends. An example of this is my active collaboration with Jacopo Marzi, also a former IED student. Just recently we have created a multimedia work in collaboration with National Geographic.
Across The River's Flow
IED LOCATIONS:
I was already living in Milan when I chose to study in IED and I consider it a suitable city to work because it feeds on "perspective". Studying and working here is highly stimulating.
MEMORIES:
I always remember with pleasure the first shots of my life taken in collaboration with a former graphics student at the time. I had just started IED, I barely knew how to use the camera and we had to make a homemade still life from a project of this friend of mine. We assembled a set with lamps brought from home, and chairs. It seemed that we were about to change the world. We were delighted with the result. Today every time we meet again we laugh because in reality, it was one of the ugliest works ever among those done together. Now he has his own agency and I have become a photojournalist. It's always amazing to think about where we started.
Dove tramonta il mare
CHALLENGES OF OUR TIMES:
This pandemic has given me the opportunity to reflect and think about how to document this time. I didn't necessarily identify it as a time of weakness from a working point of view, but I decided to use it as a time to refine my research, both thematic and stylistic. So I recently made a book with the shots taken during the first lockdown (you can find it on my website) and started writing a project concerning the new normal, of which I have already made three chapters in collaboration with National Geographic.
ADVICE:
The only advice I can give to those who are still studying is to turn their dreams into goals. It's the only way I have to think nothing is impossible. The first question I ask myself every time is: "Where do I start?" and never: "I can do it?".
Il respiro del vento
MORE ABOUT YOU:
You can follow my website (https://
LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
I still believe that having your own authorial style, as a photographer, is something more. My thesis project had nothing to do with reportage. I had written a book on how man's relationship with the reality he lived was changing, I tried to give a new definition of non-place. Now that I think about it, my attraction towards the theme of the relationship between man and his environment perhaps comes from my thesis project.