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 are the core of my process.

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 occasional cropping and dust removal. My goal is that my message should be in the negative and the image should jump at me after a quick linear inversion + gamma correction and black point adjustment of the raw positive scan. Lacking that, my negatives end up in the bin, without regrets.

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