photographer's statement

In the era of digital photography you could consider me like a dinosaur. I still use a 35 mm SLR, a Praktica BX20 made in East Germany, and I am very fond of the ‘old’ films, with slides and black and white being my favourite media.

I started taking photographs when a camera landed in my hands during a school trip to Pompei, and I never stopped since. Back then I was completely captured by the incredible possibilities that one has by watching the surrounding world through a very small, rectangular eye. During the years I have ‘met’ so many inspirational great photographers I tried to learn and steal from (Lee Miller, Robert Capa, Sebastiao Salgado to name a few), but photography is so personal that is really difficult to say who or what inspires somebody. In fact, I try everyday to develop my own way to look at objects and people around me: a landscape, a detail of a tree, a crowded street, or an empty building…

Catching portions of the reality to encapsulate what is striking me at a specific time, in a specific moment, and keep it forever. It is like producing new realities with every shot, borrowing bits of a bigger reality - the one out there - to compose my own story, my dreaming journey through life, and the lives of the people I meet in this journey. But also to look at the world through people´s eyes, and by taking a photograph, telling their story… in my own words.