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29/10/2026

We're used to thinking of water as one of the erosive elements par excellence, and we rarely imagine it capable of "building" anything.

The "White Whale" in Tuscany is an example of how water can contribute to the creation of imposing natural formations, carrying particles that settle along its path. Limestone sediments, transported for centuries by the sulphurous springs, have given rise to this massive rock formation that resembles a great cetacean.

Time and the elements show us how creation and dissolution act at the same time, in a single, uniform flow.

08/10/2026

Vi aspetto sabato 17 ottobre alle 21.30 presso la Loggia dei Priori a Narni per la proiezione dei progetti selezionati del "circuito off" di NARNIMMAGINARIA , tra cui il mio "Shapes of Earth". La proiezione sarà accompagnata da musica dal vivo.
Sarà un'occasione per incontrarci e conoscerci.
Non mancate!

20/09/2026

...the children of the Alps are those peoples, able to cross and be crossed by those wild territories.

The children of the Alps are us, who walk the same paths, orphans of a language we no longer know how to understand.

13/08/2026

For many ancient cultures, eclipses were among the most unsettling of omens. But not all cultures held this ominous view of the phenomenon.

Philippe, the guide who took me to explore the engravings on Mont Bégo, told me about a possible interpretation of the famous "man with zigzag arms": according to some, it represents an eclipse.
The zigzag arms and large hands would represent the release of divine forces, channeled onto the cultivated fields (the segmented rectangle below) through an unmistakable ph***ic symbol.
It's plausible that the engraving was made to propitiate that sudden darkness which, then as now, still manages to leave us in awe.

Although yesterday's eclipse was only partial, it delivered plenty of emotion.
Riding that wave of enthusiasm, I'm sharing a few shots taken yesterday in the Beigua Park. At the end of the carousel, a shot of the "man with zigzag arms" taken on Mont Bégo in France.

01/08/2026

"...Thus you'll know the stories of men, who carved the earth in honor of that terrible god, to whom they dedicated the name of the highest mountain."

For some time now, I've been dedicating myself to the imagery of prehistoric peoples and the places connected to it.

It all began on Monte Beigua, in front of the network of rock engravings that guided the development of my project on the park.
The name Beigua seems to derive from the pre-Roman deity Baigorix, whose cult was present throughout the alpine area.

There's another mountain whose name seems linked to the same etymology: Mont Bégo in France. Following this thread, I dedicated the summer to visiting this wonderful area, which is home to one of the sites with the most rock engravings in Europe.

On these rocks our ancestors expressed and passed down their life, their cults, their culture: aspects that remain a mystery to this day for those who study them. And it's precisely this mystery that offers us the opportunity to enter a mysterious dimension, with imagination as our only tool of inquiry.

02/07/2026

My interview with Our Narratives is now online.

We talked about the photographic research that has shaped my work over the past few years, how my practice and way of thinking have evolved, and the questions that continue to inform my work.

The conversation also touches on the ways we experience, observe, and sometimes consume the places we visit, reflecting on how our desire for experience can shape our perception of the landscape.

If you'd like to read it, you'll find the link in my bio.

Many thanks to .now for the opportunity and for the thoughtful conversation.

16/06/2026

How can a place shape the way we perceive the world?

In Beigua Natural Park, suspended between the sea and the Alps, sensations and perceptions merge with a quality of the territory that surfaces in the atmospheres and in the geology, reaching into the memory of populations who considered these places sacred since the Neolithic.

Among delicate mists and soft lights, ophiolites and beech trees watch us, offering the possibility of understanding how landscape influences us at a level that is not entirely rational.

"On the slopes,
an echo
a presence
the valley.
Bare
I turn toward that clearing.
There are no shelters
in the Ligurian woods."

06/06/2026

Every landscape contains within itself the possibility of transformation, representing that fluid quality that characterizes all existence.

15/05/2026

Passionate portraits of lichens and melancholy.
Madeira island.

07/05/2026

"I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
But i do not talk of the beginning or the end.

There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

Urge, and urge, and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world."

Walt Whitman

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