25. Born and raised in Florence, Italy.

 

I did my BA in Russian and English languages and literatures. I started shooting pics with a compact digital camera in 2008 during my Erasmus in Manchester, UK, encouraged by some people I met there. Back in Italy I soon started to shoot with my dad's analogue camera, a Minolta X700, making a lot of mistakes, but still finding that it was way better than digital.

 

Went on a trip to Russia in September 2009 to study Russian language. In a market in Saint Petersburg I bought a LOMO Liubitel'166, a twin lens medium format camera, which soon became my favourite camera.

 

I participated in a photo contest, won a scholarship in November and I had the opportunity to attend the Scuola Romana di Fotografia in Rome for 4 months from February to June 2010.

Apart from that I'm totally self-taught and I learn from books, other people's work and some of my Flickr contacts.

 

In September 2011 I moved to London to attend a MA in American Literature and Culture and at the same time I am working on a new personal project.

 

You can find me here:

  

Positive Magazine

 

Ballad Of Magazine

 

Vintage is Vintage by Polaroiders

 

Polaroiders Anno Zero

 

Nanowriters meet Polaroiders

 

Interview Aurora Fotografi

 

Feature on 16hours magazine, 4th issue We Are Wild 16hours

    

I shoot with:

 

Analogue:

- Minolta X700 with 50mm, 100 mm, Zenit FishEye, 28mm.

- Hasselblad 500 Classic

- Liubitel' 166 (Lomo)

- Zorki 4

- Yashica medium format (borrowed for a while)

 

Lomography:

- LOMO L-CA+

- LOMO Supersampler

- LOMO Fish Eye (Borrowed for a while)

- LOMO Diana F+ (Borrowed for a while)

 

Instant cameras:

- Polaroid Colorpack II

- Polaroid One Close Up 600

- Polaroid Image

 

Digital:

- Canon 450d with 18-55mm and 50mm f.1.8.

- Olympus Miu (compact camera)

- Fujifilm (compact camera). My first camera.