After my trip to Cuba in 2018, the thing that stuck in my mind the most were not the most awaited images of the island, but the shops. I found them as suspended places: almost empty shelves, tidy counters, a few objects displayed with care, melancholic windows crossed by reflections, green, blue, yellowish lights. Poor Continue Reading
Cuba remains in glass iPhone 6 Reportage — Travel Notes After the latest news about Cuba, it occurred to me to reopen the images of my first and only trip to the island. I did not return to those photographs looking for the orderly memory of a place, but something more fragile: the trace of Continue Reading
India: a journey and an experience that inebriates all five senses, including everything that isn’t identified as earthly and material. In India, everything is spiritual, from the most orderly and vivid Mughal architecture to the dirtiest shop surrounded by piles of garbage… This is India! An unbalanced balance between the horrid and the fascinating, the Continue Reading
In recent years, an enduring personal fascination has driven me to seek out, across the world, ethnic groups and magical rituals deeply rooted in nature. I had long been aware of an ancient rite practiced in southeastern Senegal, along the borders of Mali and Guinea, in the Etyolo region, homeland of the Bassari people. The Continue Reading
In Danakil everything is extreme, you look at the horizon and let yourself go beyond the boundaries of what you perceive. The caravans and workers in the salt plain, the Erta Ale volcano, the extra-terrestrial environment of Dallol… and the journey becomes a profound experience, which brings with it continuous discoveries and changes of perspective. Continue Reading
Mardi Gras is a French expression meaning “Fat Tuesday.” The use of French, in an English-speaking country where Spanish is the second most widely spoken language, reflects the historical and cultural roots of Louisiana — and of New Orleans in particular — as well as the Creole origins of Carnival celebrations in this part of Continue Reading
Tokyo presents itself as a metropolis in perpetual transformation, where the speed of urban flows exceeds the capacity of a static vision. This project explores this dynamism through a sequence of images that go beyond documentary sharpness in favor of a motion-based narrative. The visual path records the constant interaction between architecture and human presence. Continue Reading
Where the asphalt ends and the earth begins, you enter a real village, workers who are not simply workers, they are entire families. They are all involved in the work of the artisanal production of mud bricks, a strenuous and physically demanding activity because it requires the preparation and processing of a large mixture made Continue Reading
Benares or Varanasi is an incredible place, known as the Sacred City of Hindus, according to whose religion, those who visit the city at least once in their life, are freed from the eternal cycle of death and rebirth, known as Samsara, so over the centuries millions of pilgrims have come to die here, wishing Continue Reading
The Habesha are an ancient group of people native to the highlands between Ethiopia and Eritrea. United by historical, linguistic, and cultural roots, they represent one of Africa’s oldest civilizations. Life in Ethiopia today is characterized by stark contrasts: a deep attachment to tradition and widespread poverty clash with the rapid modernization of the capital, Continue Reading