Honorable Mention / 2024 / Book / People

Live in Paris

“Live in Paris” gets us lost in the meanders of that inscrutable and intangible essence that runs through the French capital, but it surfaces in the stories I wanted to tell. Honorè de Balzac represented Paris as a bottomless ocean; I wanted to represent this literary image with a kind of visual vertigo contained in all the aesthetic-formal fragments in the book.

Underlying all the micro-stories told is the synesthesia of poetry that makes these photographs an intimate symbolic formula of an ever-changing city. I wanted to enact a narrative and interpretive imagery made up of places, things

Awards • FINALIST, in SIENA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARD 2015;
• Honorable Mention for the portfolio "Sicilian People" in MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARD 2015;
• Winner in FIIPA International Awards 2016, Stories category with the portfolio "Rapid Eye Movement"
• Winner in 16th CHINA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARDS 2016 in “Documentary” and “Art” categories.

I exposed in numerous solo and collective exhibitions. My works were published in the best photographic italian magazine.