According to the myth, the daughters of Niobe, queen of Tebe, were killed by the Gods as punishment for hybris, or lack of modesty. The legend claims that Niobe was too proud of having more sons and daughters than the mother of Apollo and Artemis. However, I personally believe that the myth can be interpreted in a different, more contemporary way. Throughout history, boys and girls have been fragile and exposed to violence and menace, used as objects without value. This is no less true today than in ancient times. In particular the violence against women has never ceased, as young women are particularly vulnerable to different forms of constriction, not only physical but also psychological, from a world dominated by men who demand a perfection that is unattainable.
Wounded To Death
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A tree was born, grew up, got older. Its time has been an uninterrupted flow of nights and days, seasons and ages. Seen from the oldest tree viewpoint, years never start nor end, neither past nor future have real existence: only the present moment exists in unity with space, in one with Nature.
Central Italy Appennini, 2025 -
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Guardi a capo chino per terra e la mano sembra disfare la cinta. Perché? Il pudore è alieno da Afrodite: un cenno del capo dica, senza parole, che ti pieghi al volere della dea.
Roma, 2025 -
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Like reflections on a mirror surface, past memories rise to the conscience. Not enlightening revelations, not the truth about the now and then. Just fragments of a story without beginning and end, the only story I can tell.
Palermo, 2024 -
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Of all the Michelangelo’s masterpieces, this Pietà is the one I love most. It is an unfinished work (Michelangelo died before completing it) but to my eyes it is perfect, as it truly represents the human state of being in this world with our incompleteness, imperfections, distortions, imbalances. For this very reason deserving no less but even more love and compassion from the companions of our existence. For life is an ever unfinished work and imperfections are what make us humans and lovable.
Milan, 2024 -
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When looking back at the places where I was born and grew up, current perceptions blur with images rising from memories. Everything reminds me that what I know of the external reality is nothing but perceptions and feelings whose causes are inside me no less than outside. Trying to give names and meanings to such instants of time is the only way to make sense of one’s own life.
Palermo, 2024 -
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In markets we act any day as buyers, sellers, workers; on markets we rely to satisfy most, if not all, of our material needs; to markets we go even to meet people. Markets forces are leveraged to increase individual utility and economic and social power. In the end, markets are places where social relationships are exchanged no less than commodities.
In these shots, the Mercato Esquilino in Roma is framed in an attempt to catch relationships between goods, people, and the urban space. Or the absence of them. Who know if, looking closely, one could even see the market’s (not so much) invisible hand.
Mercato Esquilino – Roma, 2025
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Perhance To Dream – Metamorphoses (Roma, 2025) -
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Palermo, 2024
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Roma, 2025 -
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Wounded Slave – Melancholy of the Ancient World (Roma, 2025) -
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Roma, 2025
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Fractured (Metamorphoses) – Roma, 2025 Metamorphosis is the way the human beings exist, never definitive in their shapes and always in search for significance in a rush towards the end. It is not possible to think of personal identity other than as the arbitrary, though necessary, meanings that everyone associates to that uninterrupted flow of images, words, memories, affections that is her life experience.
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According to the myth, the daughters of Niobe, queen of Tebe, were killed by the Gods as punishment for hybris, or lack of modesty. The legend claims that Niobe was too proud of having more sons and daughters than the mother of Apollo and Artemis. However, I personally believe that the myth can be interpreted in a different, more contemporary way. Throughout history, boys and girls have been fragile and exposed to violence and menace, used as objects without value. This is no less true today than in ancient times. In particular the violence against women has never ceased, as young women are particularly vulnerable to different forms of constriction, not only physical but also psychological, from a world dominated by men who demand a perfection that is unattainable.
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This is how in Italy photographers make wishes of getting beautiful shots. For never will be alone those who love photography. 🖤
Roma, December 2025 -
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Roma, 2025
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