Artist statement

Photography is the means through which I investigate what resists representation.

For more than thirty years, my work has emerged from a slow and sustained engagement with places and people. I do not consider photography a tool for describing or explaining the world, but rather a practice of approaching the unknown, that which exceeds every definition. To photograph is to dwell on a threshold: between presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, memory and transformation.

My research has developed primarily in Naples and Southern Italy, territories that I do not approach as subjects to be documented, but as experiences to inhabit. The images arise from long-term relationships with spaces, communities, and their contradictions. Rather than narrating events, I seek to make perceptible the traces they leave on bodies, landscapes, and the forms of everyday life.

Over the years, I have worked in very different contexts—from urban peripheries to hospital environments, from abandoned places to popular rituals—while maintaining a constant interest in what appears fragile, marginal, or destined to disappear. In these spaces, photography becomes a tool of attention and listening, capable of embracing ambiguity without reducing it to explanation.

I do not seek exemplary or definitive images. What interests me is the moment when reality escapes its own representations and allows something unexpected to emerge. For this reason, I consider every photograph a form of encounter: a singular event that preserves a fragment of what remains unseen.

My work exists between documentary practice and artistic research, grounded in the belief that photography can still be a space of experience rather than mere information—a place where observing the world also means questioning one’s own way of seeing.