Born in Milan in 1977, during the earliest years of his life he was already used to sharing the family dinner table with an assortment of characters including Bishops and homeless people. For years he bragged about being a close relative of Totò, whom he is a dedicated enthusiast but certainly not his nephew. He has been a boy scout without ever helping an old person across the street and one of his greatest treasures is some magic water given to him as a small gift by a gnome in campground in Corsica when he was three years old.
He graduated with a degree in Natural Science and wrote his thesis on lions, possibly inspired by his own fearless mane. This took him traveling around the world. He did research for a year in a camp in Tanzania and for five years he was a geological and naturalistic guide in Iceland (and on that soil he had the luck to see geysers and meet Cameron Diaz) and in Morocco (where he entertained interesting relationships with the extras cast in the Hollywood movie Babel, without meeting Brad Pitt). He would like to stress the fact that traveling changed his approach to things, that he can’t stand the city for long periods because it doesn’t allow him to see the sky and that constantly using Iceland’s thermal baths makes your skin as smooth as velvet.

He participated in a number of post graduate courses related to his marine biology background. This led him to be a guide for many years at Milan’s Aquarium and at the Valle del Ticino’s Natural Park. He has always had a big passion for photography: initially the photography went hand in hand with his globe trotting lifestyle allowing him to create reportages for important editorial publications like Panorama Travel, Bell’Europa, Bell’Italia and Marie Claire.
Then he became connected with the professional photographer Carlo Mari, who he assisted in an unforgettable voyage across France and Morocco.

He visited Sarajevo several times after the war for humanitarian purposes: from his experience there a documentary was born titled: “Springs in Sarajevo” about the city’s rebirth through art and among those interviewed was Goran Bregovic. While working for the editorial staff at the Geographical Agency Sole di Vetro he wrote many articles on tourism and two guides for the CAI and the Region of Lombardy relating to nature, trekking and the mountains. His hiking shoes remind him a lot of this period. The social environment in which he worked for a few years in touch with young people profoundly shaped his artistic process. His art intends to strum the primitive strings of the observer in the same way young people can be very direct in their relationships.

For three years he has been a photographer and owner of Cactus (which “doesn’t speak, it stings”) a visual communication agency operating in the province of Milan: here his way of observing moved naturally to fashion photography and portraits. Attending a master course at John Kaverdash Accademia di Fotografia he learned all the principle techniques of photography on the set, understanding also how imperfections generate beauty. He loves to work on faces and on their emotional implications through an accurate analysis physiognomy: the subjects of a portrait are active and changing elements and often photography can capture interesting tears in the spirit.

He followed a cinematic screenplay writing course at Macchina dei Sogni in Milan to refine his ability to tell stories: whether it’s a story, reportage, a film or an artistic project the purpose is to astonish while looking to “revive” profound ancestral emotions.

In 2008 he participated and coauthored the production Matu, a short film commissioned by Cosv (an Italian nonprofit organization which also works internationally) and the region of Lombardy. Matu tells the story of a young boy from Kenya who lives in the inner city of Nairobi and who would like to become the world’s most famous rapper.
Recently he has finished an in depth reportage about Centrali Elettriche in Italy on behalf of Alpiq and is currently working on three different artistic conceptual projects characterized by social and philosophical implications: (Perceptions, Definitions, Isolated).

“Perceptions” in collaboration with l’Istituto dei Ciechi di Milano, analyzes the different realities gathered by our senses; “Definitions: Chapter 1: Beauty” describes, with the help of Arché Onlus, the various and subjective capacity to define beauty by everyone of us; “Isolations” tells the story of an Milanese Babel located in the Isola district where he has his studio.
The realization of an intimate documentary temporarily called “Tradition and Revolution” is his escape into the memories of the first quarter of his life.
He is one of the photographers from Milan shortlisted for the international portrait project FACITY.

In July 2010 he was in Syria working on commercial photographic shoots, taking pictures of mannequins in the desert and organic soap in the suq di Aleppo. Chosen and called again in the summer by Cosy, he made a video documentary in Mozambique on the Gilè Nature Reserve, one of the wildest areas of present day Africa. The documentary also took a look at sustainable development in the area. Always on the go, he decided in November 2010 together with the photographer and cook Sara Puleo to found BeeMind, a hive of artists and creative individuals from around the globe.

He loves cinema of all kinds, molecular cooking, American baskets, quotes of Federico Buffa and if he could live a different life he would trade it only with an extreme mountain climber: one who pushes his mental and physical limits and discovers.

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