I’ve been dedicating myself for years to observe my surroundings, the landscape in particular, a genre in which I specialized and a study to which I devoted more or less my entire life. I began my work in Florence where...
Read MoreI’ve been dedicating myself for years to observe my surroundings, the landscape in particular, a genre in which I specialized and a study to which I devoted more or less my entire life. I began my work in Florence where I graduated in 2004 in Cultural Heritage; therefore I was lucky enough to be able to study the representation of the landscape in visual arts, starting from the Middle Ages until present days. I then moved to New York in 2008, specializing in documentary photography at the International Center of Photography; I won a scholarship and joined my former teachers (Frank Fournier and Joshua Lutz) as a field and teaching assistant. I realized that it was not in a metropolis that I wanted to live and the interest in the landscapes between the city and the countryside -rurban according to an effective defnition - led me to explore a good part of the territories between France, Italy, and Switzerland. If it’s true that the landscape represents the visible part of the interactions between a society and its geographic environment of reference, then I wanted to find out where was the one shaped by the culture in which I was born and raised, and what characteristics it had. For some years now I have been carrying out a type of research on the landscape that is at the same time a refection on the act of looking and on the sense of space in the society in which we live; I called these searches rituals.
