Night Photography nominee

My photographic journey began, among other reasons, from a sort of need to reconnect with my hometown and the places of my life after a few years away from them. And after exploring them only with an objective and quite aloof approach, I realised I needed to incorporate that subjective element in my work. I chose to set these shots in the City Park of Monza both because it is the place I have the strongest attachment to, and because artistically nature works particularly fine in terms of universality, recognizability and relatability. But simply going out and portray the places as they appeared would have just brought me back to the start; hence the use of lights to represent the symbolic “sparks” of subjectivity, the traces of human affection, the residual of life encrusted in places. All shots of this series play with different plans of representation – outside reality and inner self, past and present, tangibility and imagination. And this is what ultimately (hopefully) makes the series relatable to viewers, inviting them to explore this ability of human conscience to see the external reality as a sort of permanent, and very precious extension of our past and present subjectivity.

Self-taught amateur photographer from Monza, Italy. I was born in 1984 and approached photography in early 2019. I am mostly drawn towards human-altered landscape, particularly suburbs, sometimes with a penchant for strong moods.

Exhibitions:
The Print Swap/Featureshoot collective show at Photoville, New York, Sept. 12-22nd 2019

Print features:
Aint-Bad No. 14, Fall 2019
U+I Mgzn No. 2, Fall 2019
Nothing is Interesting and Everything is Normal, Nov. 2019

Online features:
SEEN Magazine
Fisheye Magazine
BOOOOOOM
Artwort
C41 Magazine

& a few features on Instagram as well from:

FotoRoom
Life-Framer
349amcollection
Broad Magazine
Noicemag
Featureshoot
Archaic Mag
Take Magazine
Dreamer Magazine
Fisheye Magazine
ETC Zine
Future Balance
Minimalint
Minimalism42
Streetizm