What does travel mean? Traveling has always meant living and, not surprisingly, we often find it described in phrases and stories as a metaphor for life itself and knowledge.

Traveling, in fact, is not just moving in space, but also in time, through relationships with others and experiences in contact with places and types of culture unknown to us.
The return is never just a geographical return, but also an anthropological one: this is the circularity of the journey that from the start begins to change the traveler and his beliefs.
This is how, once he has left, the traveler returns to himself, different from how he was at the beginning of the journey, with a greater and more complete awareness of himself and the world around him.

Traveling has taught me more about the world and humanity than about photography, and I have learned not to have prejudices and always be open.

What I try to achieve with photography is an interpretation, to express the “vision” generated by lived experiences, coming into contact with people and places. I take photographs that concern my experiences, my thoughts, expression of a deep feeling.
We already know what the world looks like; instead we are short of poets who know how to interpret it.
In my heart I want to be a poet. A participant and not an observer.
And I want my photography to contain as much of me as of the things I photograph.

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