I was born in Pisa in 1995. I remember the first time when I saw a blank sheet of paper turning into a picture in my grandfathers darkroom in Llanidloes, Wales, where I used to pass my summer holidays together with my mother. I was about 8 years old. It was love at first sight.
Although I knew photography had always been important, I thought I had to find a "real" job in order to make a living so I started studying medicine and surgery at the University of Pisa. After graduating in 2018 I decided to leave Italy to go and work in the UK. I spent two years working in Oxford. At the time i could not deal with loneliness. I was suffering from depression and homesick so I decided to come back to my hometown. This is where discovered photography as a tool to deal with my inner turmoil. So I decided to go to Rome to study documentary photography at ISFCI in 2020.
Photography helped me establish a great relationship with loneliness. It helped me embrace it and it's now a fundamental part of my body of work. I also love meeting strangers and taking pictures is an opportunity to live, for a brief period of time, a life that was not supposed to be mine.
My work focuses on issues of collective memory, mental health as well as the sense of home and belonging.
