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Silent Gentrification in the heart of Queens. New york
Hot Roman Autumns – escaping a police assault after the storm of Ministry of Economy.
ROME, AFGHANISTAN. Refugees fleeing the bombs.
Silent Gentrification in the heart of Queens. New york
Women in the suburbs of Jenin, Palestinian territory. October 2012
Dheisheh (Dheisha) Refugee Camp. Palestinian Territory. October 2012
Indignados demo turns into Roman guerrilla war. Rome, Italy.
Aerial view of a newly built shopping mall in the Roman suburban area This rapidly growing kind of urbanization irreversibly introduced new lifestyle and leisure experiences opposed to the tradition of the country.

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The Accursed Mountains are a large, rugged, pathless range that stretches between Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo. It is one of the rare mountain ranges in Europe that has not been explored entirely yet, besides having several unescalated mountain walls.

A little girl gets on the train. L'Île-Rousse, Corsica

On the Go – Color

January 26, 2020

A stream of color photos I take on the go

On The Go – Black & White

January 26, 2020

A stream of black and white photos I take on the go

Forgotten churches of Corsica

November 22, 2019

In Corsica there are plenty of churches and tombs that are located far away from any village. Typically they are built in the middle of a forest or on the peak of a mountain.

The Talking Stones

December 9, 2017

This is a short series of rocky cliffs from places where I've spent time when I was a child. My parents were eccentric enough to make my sister and me live an off the beaten path marine wilderness in its fullness.

Istanbul

May 28, 2017

Istanbul, as I photographed it during the coldest days of the year. Winter 2016

Spaces Fading Out

December 17, 2016

This personal work is about my father and the spaces where he lived for a great part of his life. These are the spaces of my youth, too. After the passing of my parents, these places are turning in a state of neglect due to the difficulty of reviving them.

Hot Roman Autumns

September 10, 2016

The term hot autumn has been used by the Italian press to describe autumns with significant number of strikes and protests. Such discontent, since 2010, began to escalate into uncontrolled violence as tougher austerity measures...

Suburbs

September 9, 2016

A series of aerial photographs of the fast growing suburbs of the metropolitan city of Rome. The urban expansion of the metropolis saw no stop since the post-World war I. Mostly residential, the new development includes...

Living with Migraine

August 10, 2016

Migraine is a neurological disorder that is often socially underrated, as it mostly gets confused with the common and occasional headache. As a consequence who suffers from migraine has often to deal with the stress of lack of others understanding.

The entire farm is fed by this well that sucks the water from the lake

Last Floriculturists

March 30, 2016

They're just a handful remaining, in two little areas on the side of the Nemi volcano crater lake, suburbs of Rome. An ancient background in floriculture made Nemi village renowned across the country. Nevertheless...

Road kills

March 13, 2016

Road kills is a series of fictional stories of human casualties involuntary played by animals killed on real road accidents. The human tragedy is transposed to animal corpses to show the violent nature of this problem.

Ground Control to Major Tom

November 20, 2015

My unusual foray into natural landscape photography. Deeply struck by the beauty of this place, I felt in every way like travelling to a distant planet loosing often contact with the rest of the world during my two days solitary ascent to the upper plateau.

West Fire Island - Great South Bay - North Atlantic Ocean

Ships

September 21, 2015

Short series of distant ships and boats that I'm sighting during my journeys - Unfinished

Silent gentrification in the heart of Queens

October 16, 2014

The intensely diversified social pattern of Queens starts to quietly add the presence of a class of European ancestry where in the past it was more a rarity. Rezoning of Roosevelt Av. and a BID are likely to slowly shake...