Seascape nominee

I am so attracted by the sea that it captures me completely. 'Maredentro' means to me both ‘the sea inside’ and ‘inside the sea’. The visual and physical contact with the water, but also its musical dimension, nourishes in me a strong emotional relationship that allows a kind of epiphany: its flow and its rhythm lead me to a psychic reflection that I try to show in this series. In fact, I took these photos in the Ionian Sea of Salento: I was ‘inside the sea’, in order to live a particular intimacy with this element. I experienced a kind of spiritual freedom, a suspension of space and time where photographing became a purely intuitive act. The surface of the sea, its ‘skin’ embraced my gaze so that I plunged into its visual complexity and its patterns of ripples and waves, ephemeral fragments of water and light offered to me a wide range of new forms and colour combinations.

Much of my work focuses on the language of nature, on my relationship with the natural world. I think that common objects and simple landscapes evoke parallel worlds where dreaminess and double meaning prevail, so that outer space gives voice to my inner gaze.

Silver | TIFA 2025 | series ‘Kaleidoscope – Written on your body’

Honourable Mention | ND 2025 series ‘Metamorphosis’

Honourable Mention | ND 2025 series ‘The Lilies Pond’

Honourable Mention | ND 2025 series ‘Dissolving Beauty’

Silver | BIFA 2025 series ‘Metamorphosis’

Gold | PX3 2025 series ‘The Lilies Pond’

Bronze | TIFA 2024 series ‘Dissolving beauty’

Honourable Mention | TIFA 2024 series ‘Xylella Ballad’

Gold | BIFA 2024 series ‘Dissolving beauty’

Gold | PX3 2024 series ‘Maredentro’

Bronze | PX3 2024 series ‘Dissolving beauty’

Honourable Mention | TIFA 2023 series ‘Maredentro’

Honourable Mention | ND 2023 series ‘Maredentro'

Finalist | Urban Photo Awards 2023 single photo 'SM/ART/CHITECTURE'

Nominee | FAPA 2023 series ‘Maredentro’

Highly commended | IGPOTY 2022 single photo ‘Precious’

Bronze | TIFA 2022 | series ‘The Fragile Face’

Honourable Mention | BIFA series ‘Maredentro’

Honourable Mention | ND 2022 series 'Water Haiku'

Finalist | Urban Photo Awards 2022 single photo 'The Curve'