After graduating in Professional Photography at Abertay University, I moved from wee Scotland to multicultural Paris and a full ocean opened before my eyes.
As an imagery maker, I mainly work with old Polaroids and expired films, but I don’t dislike the digital world and the many possibilities it gives.
I mainly work in studio. I use strobes and natural light, depending on the mood the image requires from me in order to be born.
I’m not a compulsive shooter, I only shoot when I’m ready and when the image is appearing before me.
I’m not a camera geek, I think nowadays cameras have far too many bits and bolts and they just complicate your life. Cameras should just have three things: shutter speed, aperture and press button. My work is a constant recherche on identity, soul and beauty. People who come to my atelier and sit in front of my cameras are told to be as they are, to let their inner self go, to let the events take their course. Even though I studied in Scotland and now I live in Paris, I’m Italian. All my early life and education have been soaked with Mediterranean culture; I was raised with the classical culture and myths of the ancient Greece and Rome, bathed with the eternal sunshine of the southern coasts and the warm but unpredictable waters that, once upon a time, accompanied Ulysses through his journey of discovery. And as a novel Ulysses I journey towards new journeys of discovery of the human.
As an imagery maker, I mainly work with old Polaroids and expired films, but I don’t dislike the digital world and the many possibilities it gives.
I mainly work in studio. I use strobes and natural light, depending on the mood the image requires from me in order to be born.
I’m not a compulsive shooter, I only shoot when I’m ready and when the image is appearing before me.
I’m not a camera geek, I think nowadays cameras have far too many bits and bolts and they just complicate your life. Cameras should just have three things: shutter speed, aperture and press button. My work is a constant recherche on identity, soul and beauty. People who come to my atelier and sit in front of my cameras are told to be as they are, to let their inner self go, to let the events take their course. Even though I studied in Scotland and now I live in Paris, I’m Italian. All my early life and education have been soaked with Mediterranean culture; I was raised with the classical culture and myths of the ancient Greece and Rome, bathed with the eternal sunshine of the southern coasts and the warm but unpredictable waters that, once upon a time, accompanied Ulysses through his journey of discovery. And as a novel Ulysses I journey towards new journeys of discovery of the human.
NB: I’m interested in what is real, crude, raw, depraved, unadulterated, direct, politically incorrect, human.
November 2022 Mythography/Trieste Photodays 2022 – Trieste
October/November 2022 Palmanova Creativa/Photo Days Tour 2022 - Palmanova
October 7th - 9th 2022 ISO600 International Instant Exhibition – Galleria Fotografica Paoletti - Bologna
September 13th - 30th 2022 Portrait Exhibition – Glasgow Gallery of Photography - Glasgow
May 2022 InstantCologne 2022 – The Stage Gallery - Cologne
April 2022 Soto Aqua – Venezia
May 25th - June 18th 2018 Ita.ca Fotografia – Qr Photogallery - Bologna
October - November 2017 Stories – PH21 Gallery - Budapest
February 2016 Life Framers – Officine Fotogafiche - Roma
May 1st - 24th 2015 Ex Mattatoio – Università Roma 3 presso la Biennale Spazio Pubblico - Roma
May 15th - 19th 2015 Casa dell’Architettura di Roma – Rome
April 2014 Expolaroid – Saint Genevieve des Bois
June 2012 Free Range – London
June 2012 Exposed ’12 – Edinburgh, BA Degree show
October 2011 Paris Expose’ – The French Institute, Edinburgh
June 2011 Exposed ’11 – Edinburgh, Hnd Degree Show
May 2011 Paris Expose’ – Cma Bobigny, Paris
October 2009 Tones of Voices – Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh