I was born in March 1972 and live in S. Cesario, in the province of Modena. Since childhood, I have loved filtering the world through the lens of a camera. I used to photograph clouds and their transformations in the sky, playing with fantastical pareidolia and arguing with my mother over the frivolous use of film, which was too expensive to waste on clouds. Today, I am a psychiatrist, and while my background compels some ironic self-reflection, my curiosity about the world outside myself remains a powerful attraction. I am intrigued by the human being in its many internal and external facets, which I observe with both wonder and disillusionment from multiple perspectives. I press my eye to the viewfinder and see the world in my own way, striving to capture the spontaneity of people and things in the moments of their natural poses—composed or disordered—to grasp a deeper essence beyond the body, the face, the attire, and the bearing. Things, objects, and the material man has imposed on the earth—sometimes adorning it with beauty, other times leaving it occupied by matter that degrades and decays under the transformation of time—are angles of vision that captivate me. I seek to capture their soul, transitioning from the tangible to the abstract meanings they evoke. I have continued photographing with the pleasure of discovering and observing how I view reality through my eyes. I favor dreamy, hypnotic atmospheres and the contemplative expression of melancholy (which I distinguish from the pathological condition of sadness), as well as laughter and the enigma behind the mask. I realize that I avoid depicting the expression of pain transformed into despair and horror, which contemporary imagery bombards us with, sterilizing emotion. In my opinion, horror does not deserve all the space it is given at the expense of beauty. I seek to capture shapes and colors from nature, art, architecture, or anything that could be or seem like something else—but perhaps is not. I am drawn to flashes of light in motion, which in photography speak of impressions or certainties. Sometimes, these images at first glance resemble something other than a photograph, occasionally appearing as if painted with a brush. The post-processing of my images, when I do it, is limited to adjusting contrasts and color highlights, done directly and exclusively through the camera. For now—and I don’t foresee changing my mind—I neither know nor wish to learn how to use computer-based photo editing programs. I am not a photographer—I would do a disservice to professional photographers by calling myself one—but I use the photographic medium to capture a unique, unrepeatable, and unusual moment from reality and turn it into a painting. Photography captures and reveals much more—or something different—than what the eye perceives in the act of observation. Yet, it is always a fragment of a scene, a representation, a painting of reality—not reality itself. Precisely because I love paintings, understood as unique works, I choose in most cases to make only one print of each photograph. Occasionally, I accompany my images with short texts, combining photography with my passion for writing. In 2019, I published a book of poetry and photography titled “Under the Shadow of Light”, Ed. Studio d’Arte e Dintorni. I have exhibited my work both in Italy and abroad and have participated in various photography competitions, earning recognition among the winners.