My early work, they try to tell my South (South Italy, Puglia, more precisely) : the land in which I live, is a land surrounded by the sea which is normally associated sunshine, joy, a welcoming land which seems to forget the passing of time. Indeed this is true, but under the surface there is a layer that only those who grew up here can grasp. Mine is a land steeped in melancholy absorbed over the centuries, due to poverty and geographical difficulties, grieving the loss of people who had to leave their homelands in search of a fortune that could not be found here. It’s an atmosphere that you can breathe in the air, even though many of these difficulties have now been overcome it is the atmosphere that I try to capture in my shots. A palpable melancholy, despite now should not have reason to exist, but it is so rooted, so much a part of the DNA of the territory. A melancholy that, during the cold months, comes out with abundance in the deserted streets, empty beaches and deserted natural landscapes: and instant photography is the best medium for capturing the mood. My South is also, and perhaps above all, a land full of difficult and lonely melancholy introspection, which generates a kind of sadness for the abandonment of their land, even if it never went away from there, waiting for something that is not ever going to come: this is what I try to portray in my shots
