I was born in April 1972 and grew up in Florence, where I actually live and work.

My photographic activity began at the end of a decade, spent as musician - guitar player - in an alternative Florentine band.
In the beginning of 2001, my desire was to "rewrite the rules" of my creative processes and to renew my artistic mode. I was searching also for a new form of art with specifical expressive and technical skills that could be all "brand new" for me, with the specific meaning of a sort of personal artistic challenge. During the summer of the same year, as I had to go to Prague, I decided to buy my first 35mm film camera to try to immortalize the beauty of the splendid czeck city. It was "love at first sight" with that unknown and "obscure" object called reflex camera. From that moment on I expressed myself through photography, an irreplaceable and fundamental way of communication for me and without which I should not be able to share with others what I see, feel and think about life and all the things that surround me. Photography is a sort of "universal dictionary" for me and goes far beyond all language and cultural barriers, allowing me to "speak" with images without the need of words.

"Foemina" is a photographic project that was born seven years ago with the intent to portrait the beauty, the sensuality, the charm and the eros that are in and outside women. So pictures in perpetual evolution come to life, from glamour to lingerie shots, up to the free intimacy of the nude ones. I also love to combine and mix the "Foemina" shooting with aesthetic of decadent places, in turn immortalized in an another project of industrial archeology and visual memory called "Arkeo".

"Arkeo" is a transfigured and rielaborated voyage for the visual transmission of beauty and memory of ruins, echoes of a forgotten civilization and the working world. Architectural and historical marvels from our past are portrayed here, like old noble mansions, historical furnaces, industries of the beginning of the last century and vast abandoned insane asylums.

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e x h i b i t i o n s

2011

• 24th september / 21th october - "L'Intime Plaisir, omaggio a Helmut Newton", collective exhibition at "Galleria WikiArte" - Bologna

• 30th august / 7th september - "Total White", collective exhibition at "Galleria WikiArte" - Bologna

• 30th april / 13th may - "Punti di Vista", collective exhibition and contest at "Galleria WikiArte" - Bologna

• march - "Expo Galleria WikiArte", collective exhibition at "Galleria WikiArte" - Bologna

• february - "Expo San Valentino", collective exhibition at "Hotel Boemia" by "Galleria WikiArte" - Riccione

• february - "Passioni", collective exhibition at "Atelier degli Artisti" - Rome

• january - "Visibiliars, dentro e fuori l'immagine", collective exhibition at "Sala delle Vetrate, complesso delle Murate" by Valerio Dehò and associzione culturale "Hey Art" - Florence

2010

• december - "Expo Officine Artistiche 2010", collective exhibition and contest of arts at "Officine Minganti" by "Galleria WikiArte" - Bologna

• august - “Foemina" expo & slide show at "Terrazza della creatività" for "INFORTEZZA" - “Fortezza da Basso", Florence

• 23rd of april - “Foemina" guested by "Utopia Night" at “Villa Manduca ” - Florence

• january - “Foemina" with "Performances" by Viola Lorenza Savarese at “Royal Garden Hotel” - Milan

2009

• december - “Foemina" with "Performances" by Viola Lorenza Savarese at “Royal Garden Hotel” - Milan

• october/november - “Foemina" with "Performances" by Viola Lorenza Savarese at “Studio 7 Spazio Arte” - Rieti

• june - some shots of “Arkeo” were selected by the french societé “Novoceram” for the project/exhibition “Métamorphose: la nouvelle vie de l'Hotel De Voyageurs", guested at the “Hotel Des Voyageurs” - Saint Vallier sur Rhône, France

2008

• april - "Arkeo" with "Tracce” by Viola Lorenza Savarese and with “In Between” by Michele Fatarella at "Feltrinelli International" - Florence

2007

• july/august - "Foemina" at “Twist Martini Cafè” together with “Tracce” by Viola Lorenza Savarese - Florence

• may/june - "Arkeo" in "LE CITTA' INVISIBILI", guested by "R.IT.M.I." (Rassegna Itinerante Musica e Immagini) at the "Cultural Foundation of Institute Niels Stensen“- Florence

• may - "Arkeo" in the collective digital exhibition "LE CITTA' INVISIBILI" - by "Lost Italy" for “Digiarte 2007”- guested by the cocktail bar “Plasma” - Florence

2006

• june/august - "Candori Di Loto", collective exhibition at "Galleria d'Arte Fontesecca" by "Asia Mea Art" - Spoleto

• july - photographic exhibition of "White Cover Collection" - project by stylist Daniela Corcio - at "Concept Store 98 Rosso" - Florence