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without skyscrapers

China | Monday, July 8, 2013 | 5 photos

My first camera got broken one hour after receiving it from my dad; my sister crashed it in pieces. I was 13, and I fixed the drama buying a notebook, and then I started writing the notes about pictures that I would have shoot, if I would had a camera.
From then on, my relationship with photography as been a progressive habit of taking notes, and I still keep the notebook always with me, to write or to shoot the way I feel better.
I have been traveling and living in Asia since 2005, making at ease to feel citizens of the world, and to seek for the presence of cultural diversity in my social environment. I finally recognized this way my European roots and Mediterranean soul.
As a designer, I conceive tools as objects that are powerful even when they break, like my camera. If we cannot fix them, we can still fix the way we use them.
I believe in multitudes and diversity, and probably unconsciously, the variety of my plastic and serious equipment, the schizophrenic shift from digital to analog and backward, reflect this. by the use of antithetic framing devices enlarge my vision, and only by this, eventually the discovery of complexity can also move forward.