My passion for photography began at age 9 when my parents gave me "The little photographer" of the then mythical Ferrania.
It was a box containing a plastic 6x6 camera, two rolls of film with attachments SNL, a development kit and fixing film and paper, packaging paper BN, an apparatus for printing "torch", trays and developer for film.
I remember like it was time, enthusiasm and surprise at seeing the first images appear on these pages. Images were gray, sometimes washed out, but for me, magical and beautiful.
A boost to my passion was then the Father Bianchi, an English teacher at the school I attended and whose immense love for photography spurred him to give life to "Club Fotografico Leone XIII" as well as to make available three photo labs in a of which we were able to implement even the color printing.
Those were heroic days in which, to get a decent result in color, it took an entire afternoon to print only one picture!
Another important incentive was then my wife Carla, exceptional woman, allowed me to expand the "fleet" giving me the legendary Hasselblad, with which he toured Germany and the Netherlands (only compact camera!) And I always said with love and holy patience.
Love to travel both in Italy and abroad, allowed me to refine myself in the portrait, reportage and street: my favorite lines.
The solid friendship with the missionaries of the PIME fathers and especially with his father Sacchi, opened me new and fascinating horizons. Being able to combine the experience of medical missions on the ground that as a photographer, I allowed and still allows me to live human experiences and deep among the peoples of the Third World. To live with them and discover the customs, religions and ways of living that any tourist surely escape.
Since these emotions are born and many other social reportage derive from this: Guinea Bissau, Amazon, Cameroon, etc..
Today the social reportage occupies an important part of my experience as an amateur and I see in it my future efforts on, gradually increasing.