ITALY, 1985

There is a rhythm in space, an invisible current that moves through time and matter, tracing paths that dissolve and reform. The search for origins blends with the instinct to wander, where childhood and memory intertwine with the rawness of the elements. Earth beneath the hands, the song of the wind, the rhythm of a gesture—everything becomes part of a constellation, an unspoken map unfolding beyond the visible. These works do not document but listen. They do not reproduce but evoke. Each piece is a threshold, an imprint of something that exists just before disappearing.

Processes emerge as instinctive, almost alchemical. The fusion of sound and symbols, the imprint of dust on photosensitive surfaces, the layering of images like sediment—all resonate as echoes of a deeper pulse. There is no rigid boundary between what is seen and what is felt, between the material and the imagined. Instead, what unfolds is an atlas of emotions, a score of invisible geographies, a place where the past does not settle but continues to pulse.

The body serves as both anchor and vessel, a bridge between the tangible and the ephemeral. Carved stones hold the memory of touch, just as photographic surfaces absorb traces of time. Digital archives transform into mineral fossils, revealing how memory is not linear but layered, shifting, eroding, reforming. The landscape is not separate from those who perceive it—it lingers, shapes, and merges within. Each mark left behind becomes an echo of something vaster, an attempt to grasp the impermanence of all things.

Nomadism is not simply movement but a way of existing. Art is a continuous metamorphosis, where play and ritual merge, where intuition guides before thought can intervene. In the darkroom, images emerge before they are seen. In the forest, encounters happen without seeking. The works become fragments of this journey, thresholds between reality and dream.

Nothing here is fixed—only passages remain. The desire is not to define, but to expand. To hold light in the hands, to sense time slipping through the fingers, to listen to the dust of things that were and will be again.

Museum Collections

HBC Hudson’s Bay Company Global Art Collection, NYC
LACMA Museum Collection, Los Angeles
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Arizona 
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Dan & Mary Solomon Collection

Selected Exhibitions

2021 Euqinom Gallery San Francisco, USA 
2020 Euqinom Gallery San Francisco, USA 
2020 Chippendale Studio, Milan Italy
2018 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona USA ( with Ansel Adams, Lee Friedlander, Gary Winogrand, Arnold Newman and Edward Weston)
2015 Kopeikin Gallery  Los Angeles, USA
2015 viamoronisedici/spazioarte, Italy
2015 Sant’ Agata ex-prison Bergamo, Italy
2015 Galleria Ceribelli, Italy
2014 Spazio Polifemo Milan, Italy
2014 Macao Milan, Italy

Books

2015 Aves Mei NAZRAELI PRESS

Grants

2024 NDAwards
2024 One Exposure Awards 
2022 Yogurt Magazine
2019 Premio Combat, Lucca Art Fair Italy
2015 MIA ART PHOTO Milan Italy 



Selected Press

WALL STREET JOURNAL 
FINANCIAL TIMES
HARPER’S BAZAR
PHOTOGRAPH Magazine NYC




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