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Forest at night and obscurity In front of a forest during night time you can easily imagine and understand what was life before the invention of electricity and electric light. Every day at nightfall, the ones who lived in countryside had to face obscurity. I drove into snowy forests, I walked on the mountains and […]
A flag and too many battlefields! The emotions of a long journey It’s always hard to describe emotions and feelings after a 10 days photographic mission in the most remote areas of the Alps to discover the places of forgotten bloody battles. I passed through different emotional states, I had many different thoughts while visiting […]
The mysterious Curon bell tower. This lake and its bell tower coming out from a frozen lake were for a long time on my bucket list. Tourists walk on the frozen lake and go around it. Probably they are just as astonished as I am while looking at this incredible fairy tale and unusual landscape. […]
Winter quietness. Snow with its mantle covers everything, it creates a silent and soft atmosphere. During ancient times snow paused wars and inspired painters. Nowadays snow is related more to mountain and vacation. There is a specific moment of the day in which winter landscape becomes even mystical. This moment is right after dawn. Mist […]
Red moon. Moon charmed human being from the dawn of time, so close and so untouchable at the same time. Eclipse is expected at around half past five and I’m undecided if to wake up that early or not. While the evening runs late an old Italian swing song pops out in my mind “I […]
Into the wild. I truly love city life and its craziness but as well I want to remember the pleasure of quietness and the pervasive nature that we are part of. Nature is often set aside from our sight as we run into our daily life made of appointments, work, traffic jam and people. Although […]
From the Great War battlefields to a united Europe This is the title of the conference I organized in collaboration with the Representation of the European Commission in Italy and which was held on Thursday 25 October 2018 at Palazzo delle Stelline in Milan. It was a conference to tell the experience of my photographic […]
Sunrise in Estonia I cannot really describe how good you can feel being in the early-morning crisp air or in front of a forgotten lake that looks just like a mirror made of colours of the amazing Estonian nature. All around me a peaceful quietness made of pristine waters, a forest and the first ligths […]
“Sea, you challenge time since the world’s dawn”. This poetry written on a stone in the ancient port of Camogli summarises the spirit of this village ever since facing the sea. A village that holds sea stories that reached the most remote corners of our globe. It is during the autumn evenings that the sunset […]
Recanati, town of Leopardi. In Italy, among the amazing hills of the Marche region, lies a medieval village perched on a hill where you can breathe the atmosphere of poetry. Recanati is where Giacomo Leopardi, one of the most important Italian poets, was born in 1798. His poems have always inspired me. His works dictated […]