My photographic work focuses on the natural landscape and how light, matter, and time continuously transform its shape.
The images arise from direct experience of places and an attentiveness to those moments when the landscape reveals a more intense or intimate dimension.
Photography thus becomes a tool to observe and visually translate the power and complexity of nature.
THE PATH
I started taking photographs when I was around twenty years old, along the Tuscan coast. The cliffs of Calafuria were my first real training ground: a place where I learned to observe the relationship between light and landscape.
My experience with mountains came in 2018 in the Dolomites, and shortly after, in the Apuan Alps, my home mountains. It was in this territory that my way of photographing began to take shape.
The Apuan Alps are complex and often underestimated mountains. Despite their modest height, they possess a severe and intricate structure, yet they are also deeply marked by marble quarrying.
Photographing them means drawing attention back to a territory that many know more for its industrial transformation than for its extraordinary beauty.
PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
Mountain environments and Nordic territories: here my photography found its dimension.
After the Apuan Alps, my research progressively extended to other alpine ranges and the landscapes of the North. In these places, I found natural conditions very similar to those of the mountains: unstable atmospheres, rapid changes, and light capable of profoundly transforming the landscape.
At the same time, the Nordic territories offer a variety of environments that expand and complete my research. Here, the landscape manifests itself in different forms but retains the same dynamic and unpredictable dimension that characterizes the mountains.
This dialogue between alpine environments and Nordic territories has become, over time, one of the central elements of my photographic work.
AN EXPANSION OF RESEARCH
My work develops along two complementary lines.
Alongside broader landscape photography, my research has progressively extended to close-up observation of matter.
In these images, the focus shifts to the surfaces of the landscape and the traces left by erosion, ice, wind, and water.
This research stems from the desire to observe the landscape on a different, more intimate and analytical scale.
Two different ways of observing and photographing nature, both born from the same attention to how time shapes and moves the landscape.
