Artist Statement
Having grown up in a small village, close to the Alps, my agricultural background and love for nature led me to be interested in rural landscapes and all forms of life related to nature. My work attempts to capture the ordinary world and daily life of my village through a creative process that is influenced by being outdoors and exploring my own environment. This perspective allows me to be both outside and inside what I photograph without the restrictions of any geopolitical boundaries.
Photography is a necessity for me, an instrument to transmit my perception of the world. It’s a way to connect with what is in front of my eyes in a more perceptive and empathetic way allowing me to forget even myself. Taking the camera means to start a very intimate and personal exploration and, at the same time, I feel that it is a universal tool of communication. This duality is what intrigues me most in photography.
Everything deserves to be in the world and to be observed, to be photographed. There is no place without interest. An image can stop time, catch the viewer's gaze and offer him a personal interpretation of it. To do this, I continuously try to ‘undress’ the frame in order to obtain the simplest possible means of communication. From my point of view, the more intimate and simple an image is, the more universal it is. Photography can convey messages to the observer, which through another medium would not be possible to reveal, with an attractive visual approach that does not necessarily document reality directly, since sometimes the appearance and the message are very different. What is there, what can be seen, always invites you to be a witness to a new dimension of reality that is magically revealed in front of our eyes.