PHOTOGRAPHY
3 boxes, pac milano, 2024
3 boxes of pills, 90 photos taken every evening after taking the pill to block the replication of the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV. 90 photos taken to normalize the existence of Giovanni and people living with HIV. With this project Giovanni wants to bore the viewer, telling the story of the moment of the day in which he remembers that among everything that happens to him in life there is also the simple routine of this gesture. The project is also a challenge to ignorant compassion, it is a deep awareness of a personal reality that society still struggles, in 2024, to understand and respect.
U =U, 2023
I have HIV and for me HIV therapy is necessary to live, I have to take it every day. There are times that I want to take it, other times that I forget, some times that I call it "the pill of life" and other times that I hate it. There are so many emotions in a pill. With this project I want to tell my experience and normalize the narration of HIV positivity.
hidden lives, 2018-2022
The idea for this project was conceived in 2018 while I was working as a medical doctor in a residential home for adults with varied disabilities in Pavia, Italy.
I started to photographically document my patients throughout their daily lives in 2020. Prior to starting the project, It was very important for me to have their full consent and collaboration, which in return would allow them to take part in the creative process. My intention was to assure that they always felt comfortable and at ease with the images that were being taken, as well as, the environment in which they were being photographed.
With this photographic work I want to bring the lives of these individuals outside of the walls of the residence; My aim was to collaboratively photograph their stories in order to leave a visual documentation of their lives and respectful existence. The project serves as an honest documentary and intimate story of life with a focus on avoiding to create a stereotypical icon of madness by respecting people's reality with dignity.
morphine.online, 2023
Taking vintage pieces and giving new life. A project in collaboration with Persia and Leonie Van Balen
STRAPPI, 2023
This project, in collaboration with Persia, is a way to create new styles from fashion editorials, mixing genders and stories
backstage, perfect magazine, 2023
Backstage photographies during an editorial for Perfect Magazine in Milan
"editorial", 2022
Editorial collaboration with Persia
1935, 2022
In 1935, the fascists built a large sanatorium In Campochiaro, Rhodes, to treat people suffering from tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases.
After the war many Italians returned to Italy and many others remained until 1947, when they had to leave.
These ruins tell a story of occupation and abandonment