Observing the World, Revealing Myself. I spent most of my life observing the world, its richness and complexity, and connecting with it through different lenses, like financial reporting when I was an international CFO, and photography. I have also tried to find meaning and feel its essence, by writing business analysis and, in a different way, poetry. Whatever media you use, even if they seem dissimilar, the important is  connecting with the world and what is essential for us; Find resonance, and ultimately know more about oneself and our place within.

I am a back lane man. I like to take a turn, randomly, only guided by my instinct, and walk down narrow lanes; There is always something to discover somewhere, at the end of a narrow lane, and trying to capture something from nothing is a good challenge, and a form of poetry, a genuine way to interact with our environment.
Most of the photography projects I have developed until recently are documentary projects, conducted across the globe, in Asia and particularly in China,  in India, and in Europe.
Over the past couplef of years, I shifted to a more contemplative and reflective form of photography. Firstly by using the opportunity of my travels to simply capture what cities can offer, visual traces, anecdotes, fragments. Trees, flowers have started to emerge and flourish in the viewfinder; Then, by spending more efforts on a reflective and mindful photography, to explore my inner perception of the world.

My influences span from the european photographers of the 30', (Rodtchenko and the Paris school), the American documentary photographers (e.g. Walker Evans or the New Topographic), and people who develop a more singular and contemplative work like Arnaud Claass, Minor White, or to a certain extent, Daido Moriyama; also people who use photography for self-disclosure and self-exploration like Jo Spence.

For as long as I can remember, poetry has always been in my life. I discovered it with my mother, and started to write poems in my childhood. When I was only 14 or 15 years old, I discovered Artaud, the Surrealists, Breton, Reverdy, and many others poets that I still keep close to my heart; Later, anglo-saxon poets and writers (T.S Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Kerouac, Robert Frost; Robert Lax), the Chinese classic poets, Basho, Taneda Santoka and the Japanese Haikuists. It's difficult for me to comment my poems. I can only say that when I write, I have the feeling of being connected to another inner and transcending dimension, even beyonds words, concepts, and sense.

More recently, throught my project "Aberration" I felt a more personal need to combine both facets of my creative identity. In a world of representation saturated with images and buzz words, I want to explore what playing with poetry and photography still means to me, how to find Flow, and how their paths could cross beyond reality, concepts, and sense.

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