About
Biography
Attracted by art and beauty, I passionately devoted myself to photography by studying, admiring and envying the Italian and American Masters. I started photography by developing the negative and printing in my darkroom: a beginning that immediately marked my personal way of conceiving photography. I later experimented (and continue to use) digital, infrared, medium and traditional large format.
In 2012 I published "OASI - Sauris, island of the Friulian dolomites" (Publisher L'Orto della Cultura), a photographic book dedicated to the landscape of the mountain territory of Sauris (Udine), which I promoted throughout the Friuli Venezia-Giulia region through presentation events, themed evenings, photographic exhibitions (including "Intimissimo Spettacolo," Majano 2014, and "L'Ultima Oasi," Codroipo 2014-15) and multivision films.
Later, my photographic investigation turned to the New Landscape, to the "new photographic topography" of places, to the contemporary landscape modified by man, which I presented to the public through several exhibitions, held at the Rive d'Arcano Fortress ("Italian Far East," 2014), at the Tina Modotti Gallery in Udine ("Nuovi Luoghi Comuni," 2015) and at the Bottega D'Arte Poli ("Icons," Udine, 2018).
After travelling the Italian "far east" and the Mediterranean, I finally reached the American "far west," on the trail of the Elsewhere, of light, and in constant search of the Great Beauty.
Exhibitions
"ICONS" - Udine, Galleria Bottega d'Arte Poli, March 23 - April 21, 2018. WEBSITE
"Nuovi Luoghi Comuni - dal territorio al non-luogo" - Udine, Galleria "Tina Modotti", March 7 - April 6, 2015. Foreword and introduction by Antonio Giusa. WEBSITE
"L'ultima oasi - Sauris, luogo dello spirito" - San Martino di Codroipo (UD), Museo Civico delle Carrozze / Villa Manin Kechler, 6 dicembre 2014 / 1 febbraio 2015. Foreword and introduction by Cristiana Damiano. WEBSITE
"Italian Far East - Il nuovo paesaggio, qui&ora" with Michele Cabas - Rive d'Arcano (UD), Fortezza Col Roncone, April 19 - May 18, 2014. Foreword and introduction by Silvano Bertossi. WEBSITE
"Intimissimo Spettacolo - le stagioni, i colori, il silenzio di Sauris" - Majano (UD), Sala d'Arte "Ciro di Pers", March 7 - 30, 2014. Presentation by Stefano Tubaro. WEBSITE
"OASI" - Spazio esposizioni Cantina Ferrin, Camino al Tagliamento (UD), June 28 - August 9, 2013.
Publications
"California Icons" (2016), ISBN 9781367665484
"OASI - Sauris, isola delle dolomiti friulane" (2012), ISBN 9788897767169
Events and Presentations
"La Luce e il Silenzio" - Udine, Circolo Fotografico Friulano, April 12, 2023.
"Fotografare il Silenzio" - Udine, Università di Udine, Circolo Culturale "Il Mulino a Nordest", February 14, 2023.
Presentazione libro "Oasi" - Trieste, libreria Minerva, February 21, 2014. Presentation by Enzo Santese.
Interviste con l'Autore: presentazione libro "Oasi" - Varmo (UD), November 29, 2013.
Serata fotografica "30 Anni a Sauris - due fotografi si incontrano, due generazioni si confrontano" con I. Durisotti; Villalta di Fagagna (UD), November 15, 2013. Presented by Vito Sutto.
Presentazione libro "Oasi" - Pordenone, ex convento di S.Francesco, February 12, 2013. Presentation by Alberto Moretti.
Serata fotografica "Digital Infrared & Oasi" - Palmanova Outlet Village (UD), Circolo Fotografico Palmarino, February 4, 2013.
Presentazione libro "Oasi" - Sauris (UD), centro Etnografico, December 27, 2012.
Presentazione libro "Oasi" - Udine, sala Ajace, October 4, 2012. Presentation by Alberto Moretti.
Other
Preface to the book "Il Canto della Terra", Cristina Achucarro, Publimedia (2023), ISBN 8832129477
Photographs completing the exhbition "Architettando il Mare" by Cosimo Fusco - Trieste, Sala Comunale d'Arte, 13 May / 5 June 2011.