On the Sicilian town of Corleone, as every year, penitents gather for the Good Friday ceremony. For the past four decades local Police had banned people from covering their faces as it was deemed symbolically too close to the use of masks by the Mafia, who would hide their identities from each other during meetings. Last April 6, 2007 the ban was lifted, but most followers chose not to hide their faces.
I was born in Rome, Italy in 1963 where I began shooting as a freelance for the Gamma Presse Images in 1990, for which covered the most important events from Italy and made several reportages from Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. In 1992 with a picture of albanian exodus I received honourable mention at World Press Photo Award exhibition, which was published in the same award book. From 1992 till 1997, I had been correspondent photographer for an english weekly newspaper, The European,. From 1997 I have worked as freelance and my photographs have been published in: Time, Stern, Der Spiegel, Focus, Paris Match, L'Express, Liberation, L'Espresso, Panorama, El Mundo, and other well known publications around the globe.
Currently represented by World Picture News in New York and by Gamma in Paris.
