“Made in Taiwan” for Terza Luna
Qaraqosh, Iraq for L’Espresso magazine (2019)
Vietnam – Northern Tea Provinces for Terza Luna
Vietnam – Northern Tea Provinces for Terza Luna
Gori, hometown of Iosif Stalin, was bombed by Russian air force during 2008 Russo-Georgian war.
Kura (2016)
Bunkers from World War II in Resia village Historical Park. The bunkers were part of the so called “Linea non mi fido” (“I don’t trust” line), a complex system of fortifications built by Fascist Italian Government to defend the borders from a possible invasion by Nazi Germany. Borderlands (2015 – ongoing)
Two residents of the “Montevenere” community. The community has received an abandoned farm and the surrounding land on loan from the nearby Municipality of Maccagno.
Common Ground (Habitat Project) 2012 – 2015
Sheila Miccoli (1990), living in Tufello district, at Valmelaina street market.
Rome for L’Espresso magazine (2018)
EuroMaydan protests in the Independence square, in December 2013. Previous names of the square were Soviet Square (1919), Kalinin Square (1941), Square of the October Revolution (1977).
Kresy (2014)
Public Relations Officer of the Polish Border Guard at the Bezledy-Bagrationowsk Schengen gate between Poland and Kaliningrad (Russia).
Kresy (2014)
Slovenian Border Police at the temporary identification camp in Dobova.
Borderlands (2015 – ongoing)
No-Expo Critical Bike parade, on May 1st 2015, the same day of the opening of EXPO 2015 in Milan.
Exposed (2011-2015)
A teenager testing his motorcycle in the parking lot of the former Alfa Romeo factory in Arese (Milan region). The factory closed in 2005 and the area now hosts “Il Centro” shopping mall.
#ioabitoincentro (2018)
Solomon (16), a young local artist in the Art Villa Garikula art centre.
Kura (2016)
The headquarters of the Bank of Georgia, former Soviet Ministry of Roads.
Kura (2016)
The new Mormon Temple of Rome, opened since January 2019
Made in Taiwan (2018)
A lion at the gates of a buddhist temple.
Made in Taiwan (2018)
Visitors at the entrance of Milan Expo 2015 on the opening day, May 1st 2015.
Exposed (2011-2015)
A view of Milan Expo 2015 on the opening day, May 1st 2015.
Exposed (2011-2015)
Centrale Montemartini, located in the former “Giovanni Montemartini” Thermoelectric Centre, and converted into a museum.
Argini (2018 – ongoing)
Two residents of the intentional community “Città della Luce” (City of Light), near Ancona, an eco-village focused on sustainability and on the Reiki and Ayurveda practices.
Common Ground (Habitat Project, 2012 – 2015)
An Equestrian center for tourists in a former farm near Cortona.
Detour (2015)
The Solkan Bridge, built under the Austro-Hungarian Empire to connect Trieste to the rest of Austria. It is the world longest single-ark train bridge built on stones.
Borderlands (2015 – ongoing)
One of the families who joined the community “Il Casale” to “achieve an alternative lifestyle, away from the individualism and the isolation of the big cities”.
Common Ground (Habitat Project, 2012 – 2015)
The hills bordering the Kura river are rich in zeolite, a mineral of volcanic origin that, for its characteristics of microporosity, was used for the construction of absorbent barriers and for the decontamination of the agricultural lands around the damaged nuclear reactor of Chernobyl in 1986.
Kura (2016)
An Italian tea importer in an organic “Oriental Beauty” tea farm. “Oriental Beauty” sweet milky flavour is produced by the natural reaction of the plant to the bite of Empoasca onukii, a small tea bug that finds its habitat in the region.
Made in Taiwan (2018)
Niki, primary school teacher.
Mare Nostrum (2011)
A Lenin monument, previously located in Victory Square, and then moved to the present location after the consecration of the new Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 2006.
Kresy (2014)
The shore of the village of Vernazza few days after the 2011 flood in “Cinque Terre” region, Liguria.
(2011)
A resident of the spiritual center “Sai Baba”. The ashram was built in the late 70’s by the will of the indian yogi Babaji who identified this precise location in the Itria Valley, just outside the small town of Cisternino, as the exact spot where to build a temple, and pointed it to a disciple.
Common Ground (Habitat Project, 2012 – 2015)
“Kresowian” Association. After Russian annexation of Kresy, citizens were forced to move westward. Many families settled in the cities in the former German recoverd territories, just as the deportation trains were stopping.
Kresy (2014)
Student at the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona.
Detour (2015)
Student at the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona.
Detour (2015)
Expo 2015 area in 2011 before the opening of the construction site. The lot was at that time regulated as agricultural land.
Exposed (2011-2015)
A migrant on the road to France near the San Luigi Bridge border pass.
Borderlands (2015 – ongoing)
Northern cliffs.
Borderlands (2015 – ongoing)
The local CPSA (first aid and reception center) that houses the migrants who arrive on the island through the Mediterranean migratory routes.
Borderlands (2015 – ongoing)
The Kura river.
Kura (2016)
Goga (17) in his family house in Garikula.
Kura (2016)
The beginning of the path at Passo della Morte. The caverns and tunnels along the path were used during II World War by Italian Partizans, hiding in the Western Alps.
Borderlands (2015 – ongoing)