Abstract nominee

MARTIAN AGE is an imaginary journey on the Planet Mars. In an era of new space research with the goal of reaching the Planet Mars in the future. I tried to represent in a totally creative way what could be the environment that the first astronaut could meet once he arrived on the planet. The pictures are sea waves on the shoreline, taken during 2018 year with an analog 500C/M Hasselblad camera and 80mm f2.8 lens. There are no manipulations, excluding the balancing of light and darkness

I have got a diploma at High School of Arts in Florence and I attended the Faculty of Architecture in Florence . I started taking pictures when I was still at School; then I began working for the Commission of the Architectural and Landscape Heritage to make a photographic catalogue of Renaissance monuments. I went to Rome where I have been working as photoreporter for photographic agencies, Italian and foreign newspapers and magazines like : Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Il Messaggero, L'Espresso, Panorama, Il Venerdì, Sette, Donna Moderna, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, etc... I have also been accredited permanently by Vatican City to be one of the photographers of the Pope. I took pictures of Pope John Paul II, Benedict XVI and now Pope Francis. At the moment I have been taking Fine Art photos employing the technique of analogue photography with the use of large and medium format camera.