Born on May 18, 1960, in the bedroom of his parent’s house, in Montalto-Uffugo in Calabria area of the south of Italy. With the three years age, he emigrates with his brother and his mother for the north of France.

Later he will carelessly follow the courses of the Art school of Amiens.
He then discovers the etymological direction of the word photographs and gives up brushes and pencils with the profit of a camera. These last years, his interest goes on subjects such as the urban environment and the industrial world of production and the ethnography making alot of portraits.

In 1993 the Henri-Vincenot Foundation decrees to him his price for a series of photographs on the popular habitation in Dijon, and the following year will produce
a work about the Port of Marseille, “paysage autonome”.

In 1994, he obtains the scolarship Léonard de Vinci of the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs and during four months, it furrows Poland to try to draw up a photographic inventory of fixture of the towns planning of post-war period in this country.
This voyage gives place to a series of tryptic (approximately 200) entitled
“à la fenêtre”. He frequently turns over in his native village where he undertake a work of memory, “Paese”, about his family, the old village and his ancient rites,
his mutations and also the countryside around.

Since 2001 numerous stays in Japan, producing a lot of photographs the whole intitled “exploration de l’archipel oriental”, including some short movies.
He lives in Paris, collaborates in reviews (Numéro, Vogue, Libération, Harper’ S Bazaar...) and currently prepares two exhibitions and two books,one dedicated to his native village, the other to his stays in Japan.
Also working on a script of a fiction movie.




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