I picked up my first camera at the age of nine. I was fascinated (and indeed still am) by the natural shapes. In the sixties-seventies student ferment and sociology studies led me to social and ethnographic photography, to then develop a growing interest in the "New Objectivity" and in the DĂĽsseldorf School. Finally closeness and attention to the work of some great italian master such as Paolo Monti, Guido Guidi and Gabriele Basilico helped to shape my language and view of reality.