In Mexico the mourning is exhibited with sounds, dances and colors, but also with disturbing masks and presences. Sacred and profane touch each other, just like life and death, until they become one.Tradition wants that the deceased return from the underworld to embrace their friends in the Dìa de los Muertos. There are those who spend the whole night on the tombs or parading in processions with carnival masks. After all, the saying goes: “to die laughing”. The expression is the proof that men laugh to ward off the death.The death, not the dead. The dead ones, instead, are closer than ever.
Lives in Umbria,Italy. Engineer. His main interest has been B/W reportage. He coauthored, with the RAI journalist Luca Cardinalini, the book “STTL La terra ti sia lieve”. With Luigi Loretoni, he published in 2008 “Miserere”, in 2011 “Gubbio, I Ceri” and in 2014 “Kovilj”, also in 2014 he has published "Boxing Notes". In 2019 “Jazz Notes”,in 2020 he published “Vita e Morte - Rapsodia Messicana” and in 2021 “Passion for Sport”;in 2023 "In and out of the ring"and "Metropolitan Fragments". He has been awarded or has been a finalist in many national and international competitions.
Awards some results:
Concours Rencontres D’Arles-Reponses photo 2017 Winner
URBAN Photo Awards Contest Trieste 2017 - Urban Art Winner (3rd Prize)
Concorso Fotografico ImagOrbetello 2017 -Portrait Winner (Premio Nanuk Italia)
The Miami Street Photography Festival 2017 Finalist
Streetphoto San Francisco 2018 Finalist; PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris 2018. Fine Art/abstract HONORABLE MENTION; URBAN Photo Awards Contest 2018 Trieste - Street Photography Project Finalist; IPA - International Photography Awards 2018 " category "Fine Art Abstract" Honorable Mention; IPIC - Imago Photo International Contest 2018 – Storytelling Finalist and Portrait Winner; Key West Photography Festival 2019 First Place for the Portrait Photography and First Place for the Street Photography; Italian Street Photo Festival Contest - Roma 2019 (ISPF) Book & Fanzine Finalist; Siena International Photo Award (SIPA) 2019 Creative Finalist
“New Talent of The Year in Photography” at London International Creative Competition 2019 Winner; Streetphoto San Francisco 2019 Finalist Int. Street Ph. AWARDS - Analog cont. Finalist ; “CLOSER 2020 – Dentro il reportage” (inside the reportage)Winner; Italian Street Photo Festival Contest - Roma 2020 (ISPF) Book & Fanzine Winner (second place). The New York Center for Photographic Arts (NYC4PA)Street 2021 Winner (third place). Jazz World Photo 2021 Winner. Photofestival Milano “Le immagini rilegate” (Award for the best photographic book of the year 2021); Budapest International Foto Awards BIFA 2021 Book/People r; Gold WinnePX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris 2021 Gold in Book/Documentary and Bronze in Press/Sports; Budapest International Foto Awards BIFA 2021 Book/People Gold Winner; Baku Street Photography Festival - 1st place Analogue; PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris 2022 Gold in Book/ People.
