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01.Where the Boot Bends

Ongoing
Italy


Moving through a landscape in flux, where tradition and modernity overlap, where identities shift and reform. The road becomes a thread,tying together people, places, and the quiet forces shaping them. This work shapes itself in spaces where past and present meet. A door to introspection that seeks for those emotions tied to a sense of belonging. Less a statement than an unfolding, a rhythm of encounters—faces, postures, and landscapes caught between stillness and change. Through portraits and landscapes, this project seeks to map the tension between continuity and transformation, between the known and the unknown, between belonging and becoming.

02.The Long Way Home

Ongoing
UK




03.Soft Footprints, On a Path I Continue to Shape

2025 - Ongoing
                      USA


Each walk begins at my apartment, tracing the same path - leaving it and arriving back to it. It reflects a private ritual: walking, observing, remembering.
In these meanderings,the ordinary feels curious, and the curious, momentarily, sacred. It is a space filled with stillness, tenderness, solitude, and wonder.
Fleeting encounters hint at the passing of time, and in some cases, the emotional undercurrents of adolescence.
At home, life has become delicate and uncertain - one of my parents caught in a quiet battle with time — and the need to escape has taken on a sharper edge. I return my walks not just as the photographer, but as the inner child that inhabits us, searching for fragments of clarity and peace.
New York, once the backdrop of my younger, more carefree self, now holds a different gravity. The park becomes a space of therapy, where I walk to remember, to feel, and to reflect on the shifting terrain of youth, memory, and the bond with my father.

04.Walking, as the Days Unfold

2024-2026
UK



Understated records, meditative and intimate.
Subtle details, hidden textures of peripheral spaces into view. A space for discovery, within the familiar yet unnoticed facets of the everyday.

05.In Quartiere

Ongoing
Italy



A colour index of the perimeter of my childhood. Repeated walks, slow observartions, familiarity and distance.
An accumulation of photographs that becomes personal georgaphy.

06.Speedway Victoria

2026
Australia



A quiet study of a place shaped by repetition, preparation, and brief eruptions of speed. Set around a local dirt track, the work approaches these grounds not as sites of spectacle, but as social landscapes -  It focuses on anticipation and aftermath rather than the race itself. The interest is in the people who gather there, the rhythms of the spaces, and how these environments hold a sense of tradition and quiet intimacy at the edges.
Drivers, teams, and spectators share the space through routine and proximity. The race passes quickly - what remains is the work and the people who return.

07.Red Roads

2024
Australia


A road trip through the windswept coastal plains and
rural landscapes of South Australia

08.Along the Yarra River

2024
Australia




09.Teenagers, SA

2023
Australia

Document Journal

A photo diary in South Australia tracks a lazy summer, and the the coming-of-age of local teens. See the article here