MY PROJECTS

Muguarra” means family in the Emberà dialect. The project is committed to telling the story of an emberà-chami family forced to emigrate to Bogotà from their territory of origin. The shots reflect, through the present of the family nucleus, on the urbanization in a metropolis of nine million inhabitants of communities closely linked to contrasting natural environments and on the social situation that Colombia is going through regarding the armed conflict in the territories belonging to indigenous tribes . The story of Lus and Luis and their 10 children, like thousands of other indigenous families, was marked by violence and abuse. In 2004, due to the conflicts caused by drug trafficking groups and the FRACs, the community to which Lus and Luis belonged had to flee their territories of origin near Risaralda to head to Pereira. In 2013, due to 6 kidnappings of relatives of Luis, still missing, the family had to flee again to Bogota. In these movements Lus lost a son. Today Lus and Luis live in a popular house in the south of Bogota, through handicrafts and street singing of traditional songs they support the family. One of their biggest concerns after the unity of the family is to transmit their culture and preserve it even in an environment far from the traditional Embera imagery. I spent a month in Bogota to talk about their scars, their strength and the memory of a culture that lives in their memories and in nature.

In this chapter of Tell me what you see we witness a baseball match for the blind. The Tunders Five are a Milanese base ball team for the blind, a peculiar sport for various reasons. During the game, absolute silence is necessary to ensure that players can hear all sound inputs. Sound inputs given by the only sighted players who, located at the base of the field, hit the pitches to give instructions to the runner. Baseball is one of the only sports where the blind can run without assistance, many players approach this sport for this liberating feeling. I spent months. tell the stories of various players of how they find independence in a sport. a discipline different from the "common" version of sport which, like the very vision of things, acquires a singular and unique light that only those who live among the other senses can perceive.

Nowadays combat sports glorify the explosive and flashy aspect of violence, the collective vision of a multifaceted and noble discipline such as boxing is reduced to a fragment that highlights the violent and controversial aspect of this sport. In youth women's boxing a match lasts three rounds of two minutes each, in those lightning-fast six minutes a corollary of emotions is condensed that arise from the first months of training to culminate with the ringing of the bell. Thorns of roses wants to dig into what hides a match. Moving away from a purely male stereotype, the project seeks to achieve a more authentic aspect of the figure of the "fighter". The shots portray the invisible moments that form this sporting reality: a universe made up of screams and whispers, effort and tears, blows and hugs. Following the Eliteboxingclub gym in Milan, I tell these moments through the experience of one of its top athletes, Cecilia Ponari, Italian vice-champion youth 50kg. During international and national trips, the project enters the world of women's boxing by looking for the peculiar and collective traits of this discipline

Moved by an interest in the theme also due to the loss of the right eye in childhood, I continue to delve into the world of the blind, between those who fear the dark and those who embrace it. Tell me what you see is a project that questions various aspects of visual loss, the condition of the blind and their interpretation of the world we know. The work consists of a corollary of stories of subjects who have lost their sight mainly in old age due to medical conditions or accidents. The work wants to investigate this rebirth in the dark, interpret it and translate it photographically. my research took place in two main associations in buenos aires asac and the fancesco cats association, two institutes for blind adults to tell the various activities aimed at acquiring mastery of this new reality. To tell their normality, I documented life in the Asac dormitory, where blind people with various mental or economic problems can find support and assistance, and where they create a real community. the two institutes host a total of more than 200 guests, some of them for previous pathologies or due to accidents in addition to vision loss also accuse of mental disorders. Through scenes of daily life, the project aims to reflect on the emotional part of these subjects.

Tell Me What You See A journey through the emotive and sensorial universe of the ones between us who can feel, but not see, light. This almost 2-year long project explores the story of piano player and music teacher Silvano, blind since adolescence, and his partner Manuela, singer and sculptress, blind since childhood. Opening up a threefold relationship between the lovers and music, the project raises questions, accepting the inherent/obvious limitations of the medium, on the photographic structures of not seeing and blindness. In the midst of this menage à trois, music manifests itself as central, it binds Silvano and Manuela in a continuous dialogue that is at the same time inspiring muse and language of their relationship. Through the sense of touch, Silvano elevates his connection with the musical instrument, bringing it to its full expression: from his fingers flowing across the music sheet. to the weight they impart on the keys. What could be a simple expression form turns thus into language and form of emancipation. In a parallel fashion modulating air into music becomes for Manuela a way to find the right note, almost like taking aim. Thanks to these synesthetic moments the quotidian gains new values, and a “melodic” outlook on the world and things penetrates scents, gestures and emotions, revealing a light that eludes and goes beyond our ordinary concept of “seeing”.

Il 9 marzo il Governo Italiano ha introdotto misure restrittive alle libertà individuali per contrastare la diffusione del virus da Sars Covid19. Il reportage riflette sull’impatto che tali misure hanno generato sull’individuo. Entrando nella vita privata di un portinaio provo a esprimere il generale sentimento di prigionia che ha accumunato gran parte di noi durante i mesi di quarantena. On the 9th of march the italian government introduced restrictive measurements on individual freedom as an effort to contain the spreading of Sars Covid19 virus. This reportage reflects on the impact of such measurements on the private citizen’s life. Through the private life of a condominium’s doorkeeper I try to express the general feeling of enprisonment that we all felt during these months of quarantine.