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Biography: born in Turin on the 6th of Novembre 1981, he’s a photographer mainly skilled in Reportage and Nature Photography, based in Milan and Turin. At the moment he collaborates with the photojournalistic agency Milestone Media in Milan. He approaches to photography in 1995 during a journey in Kenya, where he starts taking pictures with his father’s camera, a F401. After that experience his passion for photography begins; thus after high school he decides to turns his hobby into a proper job, entering a whole brand new world pretty hard to penetrate, keeping both his passion for photography and his skills as informatic consultant on C.m.s. opensource systems. Since 1995, thanks to his parent’s passion, he travels across several countries, such as South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Malaysia, Thailand and U.S.A., developing a certain tendency towards Nature Photography and Reportage. Recently he wins the Flickr Award “Your Best Shot 2009” in Pachyderms category, some pictures concerning California Condors are chosen for the arrangement of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, he partecipates at both 2009 and 2010 editions of Turin Photo Festival and of the annual review “Io Espongo”. In 2011 he reaches the semi finals of the world competition of Nature Photography “Wildlife Photographer of The Year” with three pictures.