Biography

I was born in Rome 1970 and I grew up in Palermo, Sicily. My interest in photography began when I was just a boy and I started to look at my father’s great pictures, shot in Africa and South America during the sixties and the seventies. My father’s photojournalism was so intense that inspired me such a precious desire to explore the world through a camera.

My photography career starts back in 1995 in New York, where I became part of the PIER59 Studios dealing with fashion and glamour issues. After a couple of years, I met photographer Santi Visalli who became a mentor and a friend and encouraged me to begin a photojournalism path, socially oriented. So I started to contribute with some American agencies and magazines and I began to shoot daily news in New York City.

Throughout the years my job brought me around the world, looking for stories about people, places, spreading my interests towards the matters such as childhood, world conflicts, immigration, from the Balkan conflicts of Bosnia and Kosovo, to the internal African immigration, from the Rom communities in western Europe, to the Brazilian “favelas”, to the Italian immigrates, and other issues. My job has been published in several important and prestigious newspapers and magazines, Italian and international, among them L’Espresso, L’Europeo, Il Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Geo, Max, GQ, Colors, Internazionale, Zoom, People, Stern, Bergens Tidende, NY Times, Newsweek, Time, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Observer.

I have done corporate works for several private clients, among them Esso, Shell, 2BCom, Saatchi&Saatchi, The British Council, Ripa Arte Hotel, Alitalia, Qantas, Pumex spa, Cathay Pacific.

My works have been shown in Italy and abroad, I took part at different festivals such as “Festival Internazionale di Fotografia di Roma” (2003, 2005, 2008), “Festival Internazionale di Foiano” (2004), “RomaDocFest” (2006, Hounorable Mention), “SalinaDocFest” (2007), "PordenoneFilmFest" (2007).

Today I’m based in Rome. I work as a freelance and I’m a regular contributor of Getty Images (USA) and Lonely Planet Images (AUSTRALIA).