Photographer and filmmaker born in Palermo in 1961. I live in Milan and working with periodicals, publishing houses and communication agencies with which I create photos and videos both for publishing and for important Italian and international companies. My reportage are mainly distributed by the Parallelozero photo agency. My works was awarded at the Tokyo International Foto Awards, got Honorable Mention at the International Photographic Award, at the Moscow International Foto Awards, at the American Photo Awards, at the Tau Visual Professional Prize, won HF prize at the SI Fest Savignano Immagini and was selected in various international awards of photography as Taylor Wessing Prize or Ponchielli GRIN Prize I taught photography at the Politecnico di Milano in the Italian headquarters of the FIT - Fashion Institute of Technology Of New York. I directed several documentaries including Moira Orfei Amore e Fiori and Little Red Robin Hood biographical documentary about Soft Machine singer and drummer Robert Wyatt, with the participation of Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera and Nick Mason (drummer of Pink Floyd ), Or Big Sister Because of You, on the work of the Czech photographer Hana Jakrlova on a telematic brothel in Prague. My works has published by magazines such as GEO, Ojo De Pez, China Lens, La Croix, Stern, Die Zeit, Io Donna, Marie Claire, and selected in international festivals such as Boutographies Montpellier - Biennial of Photography in Brescia, Photo Biennial of Thessaloniki - Rome International Film Festival Photography - Indian Vision, London - Fotonoviembre Tenerife, Spain - European Photography, Reggio Emilia - Encontros da Imagem - Emergentes DST, Braga, Portugal - Center for Fine Art Photography Colorado USA - Taylor Wessing National Portrait Gallery, London - SIPF Singapore International Photo Festival - Stadt Museum, Munich - Copenhagen Photo Festival, - Cortona On The Move, Italy - International Meeting of Photography Plovdiv - Galerie Mansart Paris - Book City, Milan- Turin Photo Festival, Italy - Reportage Photofestival Sydney , Australia - Writers Festival, Italy. Among my works, "In Italia", (Federico Motta Editore) with texts by the architect Mario Botta, "Into The Silence. Hermits of the Third Millennium" and "Utopia", a photographic journey through alternative, artistic and spiritual communities around the world. Exibitions Utopia Eremiti and other stories European Photo Festival 2019 - Busto Arsizio Utopia Trieste Photo Days 2016European Photo Festival 2016 - Castiglione Olona (Italy) Encontros From Imagem 2016 Braga (Portugal) Med Photo Fest 2017 - Catania - (Italy) Palazzo Sant'Elia - Palermo Culture Week 2019 Frigoriferi Milanesi / Writers Festival - Milan 2018 European Photo Festival 2019 - Castiglione Olona (VA) Into The Silence Encontros Da Imagem - Emergentes DST 2010 - Mosteiro de Tibães (Braga Portugal) International Meeting of Photography Plovdiv 2010 (Poland) Photonoviembre 2011 - Atlantica Colectivas - Tenerife (Spain) Taylor Wessing 2011 - National Portrait Gallery London (UK) Turin Photofestival 2011 - Phos Gallery - Turin I (Italy) SpazioFarini6 Gallery Milan Photo Festival 2012 (Italy) SIPF Singapore International Film Festival 2012 (Singapore) Photography Open Salon 2012 - Arles (France) Photography Open Salon 2012 - China House - Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) Cortona On The Move Photofestival 2012 (Italy) Galerie Mansart Paris (France) 2012 AFI - Arles 2103 (France) Modern Art Gallery of Busto Arsizio -Varese (Italy) 2013 Copenhagen Photo Festival 2014 (Denmark) The Words of Silence Smerillo Fermo (Italy) 2014 Spirituality Festival Turin (Italy) 2014 Munchen Stadt Museum Munich (Germany) 2014 Book City - Photo Books & CO. Palazzo del Ghiaccio November 2014 Milan (Italy) Parallelozero December 2014 Milan (Italy) Rice Museum - Albergo delle Povere Week of Cultures 2016 - Palermo (Italy) Biennial Museum of Rock Salt Petralia Soprana 2019 The Last Wall Plaza 2009 - Milan - International Contemporary Art Exhibition for the XX Aniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall PhotoBiennale 2010 - Thessaloniki Greece Turin Photofestival 2010 - Turin Italy Reportage Photofestival 2010 - Slideshow - Sydney - Australia Museo Riso - Albergo delle Povere - Week of Cultures 2015 - Palermo (Italy) Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting 2016 Milan (Italy) Olga Nicosia Gallery 2019 (Cyprus) Gisbert Lippelt Low Cost Life FotoGrafia International Festival of Rome - Palazzo Esposizioni 2009 (Italy) European Photography 2010 - Reggio Emilia (Italy) International Meeting of Photography Plovdiv (Poland 2010) Women & Tea PhotoReport AGE 2014 Matera (Italy) Hiatus Frigoriferi Milanesi installation / Writers Festival - Milan 2016 Indian Stills Open Care Palazzo del Ghiaccio Milan 2007 (Italy) Galleria delle Battaglie - Biennial of Photography 2008 Brescia (Italy) Boutographies ( Montpellier 2009 France) FotoGrafia Festival Rome 2009 (Italy) Turin Photo Festival 2009 (Italy) Indian Vision Nerhu Center London 2009 Galleria Amarillo – Fotografia Europea 2010 Reggio Emilia (Italy) Festival Fotografico Italiano 2010 Busto Arsizio Varese (Italy) Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting 2016 Milan (Italy) 
 A Different Robin Hood - co-author Francesco Di Loreto Lingotto - Salone della Musica Torino 2000 (Italy) 
 Giardini Immaginari Botanical Garden Palermo 1984 (Italy) Quotidiani AVIS Associazione Arti Visive Palermo 1983 (Italy) ____________________ Books Tra i Vulcani / Admist the Volcanos /The senses of an island In Italia with Mario Botta text . Federico Motta Editore. Milano, 2006 Into The Silence LIT edizioni /Castelvecchi/Intento Indian Stills - Massimo Fiameni Limited edition Utopia - Crowdbooks Italy / Intervalle ed. Francia
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 Little Red Robin Hood Merano Film Festival 1999 (Italy) MedFestival Arcipelago 2000 (Italy) Salone della Musica di Torino 1999 In-Edit Festival di Madrid & Barcellona (Spain) After Forum Festival 2005 - Ferrara - (Italy) Broadcasted on Multithematiique Planete Germany , French Italy La 7 Italia Danish TV 1 Moira Orfei Amore Fiori BiografilmFestival (Special Event and Opening Film Festival), Med Film Fest 2006 (Italy) MIFF 2006 (Italy) Hai Visto Mai 2007 Siena (Italy) Immaginaria Film Festival 2006 (Italy) Roma Doc Fest 2006 (Italy) Festival di Palazzo Venezia Roma 2006 (Italy) Arcipelago 2006 (Italy) Pordenone Cinemazero 2007 (Italy) Big Sister. Because Of You MIFF Milano International Film Festival 2010 (Italy) Photoreportage 2014 (Italy) Broadcasted on Current TV Italy