About me

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I'd say I take pictures since I was a kid, buy nowadays everybody does, so this is not very meaningful. Before being a photographer, I had a career in visual design and motion graphics, something that was collaterally bound to photography: light, colors, geometry, point of view and taste. Maybe this helped me discovering the camera as an instrument to produce something visually pleasant.

In 2020 it's twelve years I'm a professional photographer.
And I always feel I have lifelong things to learn. Every day, every step I take in this art improves the way I see the world around me and makes my photography grow up. And this is done by watching good photography and reading great masters books. If you want to get somewhere, you have to learn from the best. That's what I tried to do till today.

I love smiles, animals, rock climbingwinter sports, and cinema.

 

Some awards won as a photographer

2018/2019

  • SIlver Award - WPPI International, Album category

  • World Finalist - Nikon Wedding Awards, MyWed

2016

  • Top 10 of the World - Wedding Photojournalist Association

  • Photographer of the Year - Masters of Italian Wedding Photography

  • Category Winner - Nikon Wedding Awards, MyWed

  • Best of Destination Wedding - Junebug Weddings

  • 2 Honorable Mentions - IPA (International Photography Awards)

  • 1 Honorable Mention - MIFA (Moscow International Foto Awards)

  • Featured in Magnum Photography Awards and Street Photography Awards.

  • Judge for the industry awards “Masters of Dutch Wedding Photography

  • Judge for the industry awards “Masters of German Wedding Photography

2015

  • Editors’ Choice - Nikon Wedding Storyteller Contest, MyWed

  • 4 Nominees - La Grande Photo International Awards

  • 2 Honorable Mentions - Monochrome Awards

  • Honorable Mention - IPA (International Photography Awards)

  • Top 100 of the World - Wedding Photojournalist Association

2014

  • World Finalist - Canon Wedding Photographers Contest, MyWed

  • Featured World’s Top Wedding Photographers - JM Just Married Magazine

  • Top 100 of the World - Wedding Photojournalist Association

Other

  • Recommended For Italy - Fearless Photographers, 2012

  • Award-winning member of the invitation-only international association ISPWP

  • Proud member of the invitation-only international association Best Of Wedding Photography

  • 2 Honorable Mentions - Premiofotografico.org, 2009