I like interesting light, patterns, or textures, in any combination. I am fascinated by photography as a device to document the human-altered (or unaltered) landscape of the places where I've lived. I've lived in a few countries over the years, and I use photography to keep a sort of visual record of my journey. I particularly like to document the disappearing rural landscape of my homeland, Puglia, southern Italy ('the heel of the boot').

I am fond of their work and cherish my copies of their books:

Robert Adams

Luigi Ghirri

William Eggleston

Eugène Atget

Michael Schmidt

Guido Guidi

From a technical point of view, I enjoy using film cameras, and I enjoy developing, and scanning, my negatives - that's about it. For me, the value and fun of film photography culminates in the scanned negative. Optimal exposure and negative development is what I like to focus on. I have no interest in darkroom printing, dodging, burning, vignetting, staining, sepia toning, etc or in using any other artisanal post-processing technique to 'make' an image in a darkroom. Likewise, I'm not interested in Photoshop post-processing, aside from black point selection, negative dust removal, and occasional cropping. I love the look of well-scanned film grain.

Chiaroscuro, forme, superfici, ricerca del bello nella quotidianità.