“Having studied and worked for years in the field of architecture helps me to show the beauty in the composition and in the detail. I have always had an interest in photography, but the true passion and the understanding of its deepest meaning was born thanks to Lugi Ghirri’s book Photography lessons, who taught me to understand what and why before shooting. My photographic research is connected to the Dusseldorf School in objective documentation, to the urban investigation photography of Gabriele Basilico and to the more exquisitely architectural one of Julius Shulman, with whom I agree the passion for architecture of the mid-twentieth century. Photography allows me to analyse, synthesise, decompose and recompose architecture, almost giving me the illusion of being the one building it. The urgency is to recognize the value of certain architecture to understand the importance of preserving and respecting it. The research undertaken on the modern architecture of Rome and the booklets already self- published, in progress and in planning, have given a special meaning to photography, which has now become indispensable for me, even when I don’t have a camera (cit. Dorothea Lange).”