About Me

I was born in Olbia, Sardinia. My childhood was a sea of sensory stimuli: a carpentry workshop; a laundromat; the countryside; a noisy family; long walks; the details of nature, fabrics, and materials. Vivid images. In this sense, I believe I discovered photography long before buying a camera.

A part of my photographic life belongs to solitude and meditation.

Yet, from my childhood I also remember the scenes, the interactions between people, and the arguments..

I feel that part of my photography developed around the need to interpret human relationships.

This grand spectacle that is community—how communities form and how they break apart—represents the fundamental question driving the most socially engaged side of my photographic work today.

In my approach to photography, I feel the need to empathize with the subject. I cannot easily abandon direct interaction, and if that happens, the parameters are tight and interaction somehow finds its space after the shot.

I have worked extensively to free myself from any framework that could colonize space and culture, from the irresponsible use of images, and from the violent, predatory practices that often inhabit the world of photography.

As difficult as it is to acknowledge and financially burdensome to sustain, I frequently refuse to carry out projects that objectify the body or serve consumerist, militaristic, colonizing, or indirectly violent dynamics.

Interaction, empathy, active listening, consent, and power dynamics analysis are the points around which I try to anchor my method.