Portrait nominee

These are some photographs of a series entitled “Put yourself in my shoes!” It is a project, in which people with Alopecia - Alopecia Areata, Totalis and Universalis - reinterpret some of the most representative and known icons of the world of music, film and art that have characterized with its image and revolutionized the aesthetic "ideal", inspiring the mass culture of the last 80 years.
The protagonists invite the public to come closer to their image, profoundly changed by the Alopecia, through an empathetic and engaging game that aims to make it sensitive to the public eye to get them used to a nude look not determined by an aesthetic choice nor by a chemotherapy treatment, but as a result of a genetic disease and autoimmune which is Alopecia Areata.
The makeup chose by each of the protagonists is a playful excuse to overcome, ironically, the lack of hair, eyelashes and eyebrows, that is the fundamental characteristics that normally characterize and give expressiveness and depth to the face of every human being and that Alopecia Areata in its various forms takes away.

Freelance photographer based in San Giorgio di Piano, Bologna.
Since 2009 I have started to deal with sports events, interior architecture, exhibition stands
Since 2013, after a Workshop of "Photojournalism" with the photographer Alessandro Tosatto (Agency Contrast), I deal with photojournalism, current affairs, politics, concerts, documentary photography and portraiture.
Currently I work with: the photojournalism agency Italy Photo Press, KikaPress, the PHOTO 4 agency specialized in Motor Sport.
I have collaborated with the photojournalism agency Infophoto, Demotix/Corbis, Golfarelli Editore International Group.

Exhibitions:
October 2017 Photographic Exhibition: "Put yourself in my shoes!" Complex of the Baraccano Exhibition Hall G.Cavazza District S.Stefano, Bologna
April 2016 Photographic Exhibition: "Islam and the Muslim Community in Bologna" Palazzo D'Accursio, Manica Lunga, Bologna
September 2016 Photographic Exhibition: "Islam and the Muslim Community in Bologna" Municipality of Medicine (BO)
December 2016 Photographic Exhibition: "Islam and the Muslim Community in Bologna" Headquarters of the Emilia Romagna Region

Awards:
NEUTRAL DENSITY PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2017 Honorable Mention in People: Portrait at the ND Awards 2017
MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS - MIFA 2017
3nd Place. Bronze Winner 2017 Category: People-Portrait