Inter- human Statements
Terroirs
(Juror's pick selection LensCulture B&W Awards 2021; Monochrome Award 2022; Grand Prix Paris Photo, 2022)
The project, started as a story of harvesters in South African Western Province, directed soon to transmit to represent their resilience and humanity. In photographing, I am very interested in the theatricality of human actions: in this project, the harvesters' performances have the fields and mountains of the Winelands of South Africa as their fifth and backdrop.
The Last Ritual
(Commended in Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022)
The Italian director P.P. Pasolini considered football "The last sacred ritual of our time". This ritual also inspired Paolo Sorrentino's recent film, "The Hand of God". The hand of God is otherwise invisible, just as the object of desire - - the sacred ball - - is not seen in my images.
W.W.W. ...... Who Watches Whom
(Winner, IPA Photobooks 2021, Category People )
Many photos from different music or sport events are assembled together for a physical "fusion : I want to emphasize the importance of real encounters, as opposed to "social networks", result-cause of social distance.
Vertigo
I feel a particular intoxication in even moderate altitudes, because in my childhood I loved climbing, and once I fell from a branch. It took me several years to climb back up without feeling a helpless vertigo, which has now turned into a subtle pleasure, like tasting a forbidden fruit.
Minority Report (2014)
Almost forgotten, in the cauldron of tourist consumerism and the zoo effect which is an effect of globalization, the Himba are back in the limelight since in 2020 the project of the dam on the Kunene River -- dating back to 2008 and put on hiatus in 2015 - - was resumed: the dam would flood the areas where their flocks have been grazing for hundreds of years. The interests of a small minority - - between southern Angola and northern Namibia, very grossly estimated between 12,000 and 25,000 - - will certainly not arrest those of powerful economic organizations.
It is therefore very likely that photographing them is like photographing an endangered species.
Game Over (2010)
My first open project to be started in digital photography, born in silence and solitude, in the mountains of Trentino: it wanted to show not the nostalgy, but the emotional strength of youth, which is not "lost", but regained with the imagination.
Lush Lies (2012)
Billboards do not interrupt the landscape.
They replace it.
Faces, bodies, and promises of success occupy visual space until they become more present than reality itself.
The landscape is no longer a backdrop, but a surface onto which desire is projected, repeated, and normalized. It is no longer represented: it is incorporated.
Images do not represent the world.
They anticipate it and impose it.
These images do not document advertising, but its assimilation into reality.
Billboards do not sell objects. They sell states of being.
In this fusion of nature and visual construction, success appears inevitable—almost biological—and therefore profoundly artificial.