Bio

I see myself as a photographer who refuses to employ digital manipulation and whose working process settles mainly on empirical research. There is therefore in my photographs a permanent process of interpreting my view of reality,  fictionalising it and a natural predisposition to create mystery images. 

Since the 1997s, I have taken interest in portrait as an attempt of synthesizing stereotypes, and this I started to capture in black and white pictures. Lately, at the beginning of the last decade, I started the series We and The Others intended to show alternatives to the mass consumption society. I clearly see that I created typologies that represent my view of return to Nature, and this was given added strength by the final selection, that would be a gallery of heroes

More recently, in 2006, I had also conducted other experimentations, when in Asian cities I put together the series Daily Pilgrims. I had abandoned a little the stillness of the portrait and was looking for movement, a temptation to catch the flow of reality. I used processes that would correspond to our way of apprehending and evoking the world in imperfect glimpses defocusing, big close-ups, yet my aim was always the indeterminate quality of meaning that carries mystery along. In fact, since 1997, I am currently working in a project Uncanny Places that draws our look to the distinction between reality and appearance as heightened by their strangeness. A strangeness which can have several meanings and frameworks,  awe, fear, memory, myth, fantasy, and which I try to recreate visually. 

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