Clean symmetrical images have always drawn my attention, way before Instagram or Pinterest even existed.

As a 6 years old kid, I used to love skimming through the dusty architecture books or home decor and garden design magazines that were piled up and forgotten, in my family-home basement.
I could spend an entire afternoon just looking at those perfectly crafted sceneries and could never get enough of sunny villas with swimming pools and gorgeously landscaped gardens.

My first photography experience with me as “the photographer” however, was through a flashy orange ninja turtles film camera, one of those kids’ cameras that imprinted the outline of a character (a smiling ninja turtle in this instance) on every picture frame.
I vividly remember taking pictures of my baby brother laying on the sofa, and how proud I was of the result.

Fast forward a few years, I started learning about photography with my dad’s mechanical Reflex, which was definitely more challenging and with definitely less impressive results at the first attempt, but it slowly got better and I became the go-to person in the family when someone needed a picture taken.

It crossed my mind that I wanted to be a photographer but of course, I had to study and get a “real job”, or so they said, so I gave up the idea quite quickly.

Growing up I started developing an interest in Architecture and Design which brought me to study Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan.

After a while, I realised that although I loved the Design world, mine was more of an admiration for spaces and objects that someone else created than the actual desire of getting involved and designing something myself.

My passion for photography had always been there and was strengthened thanks to some photography and communication classes I attended to obtain my Degree. So I decided to study Photography at the European Institute of Design in Milan.
This year forever changed my approach to Photography and helped me understand what I wanted from it.

Today Photography isn’t my profession - by choice - but it is my mean of escape, my safe harbor. This allows me to create when I want to, and only when I feel drawn to it.