About this project
"...It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day..."
Vincent Van Gogh, letter to Theo Van Gogh nr 676 Arles, 8/9/1888
Premise
There are passions that perhaps have been born with us since we were children. Photography and astronomy have always been part of my life path. In the beginning as a simple curiosity, today as a real passion that I have cultivated since, in 2014, I bought my first semi-professional digital camera. From that moment, I started to shoot at the world that surrounded me under the starry night sky. The more I made my first images, the more I understood that my shots could be a very powerful communication channel with which to transmit the love for my land through a different light. Little by little, I started to explore the most beautiful places in Sicily from both a landscape and historical point of view. Each image became the means by which I make the world to know the richness of a land, which throughout history, thanks to its central position in the Mediterranean, has been the cradle of many civilizations.
My Land, My Love
In my Sicily, more than in the rest of Italy, the history of different cultures have mixed: the Phoenician, the Greek, the Roman, the Arab culture perfectly integrated into the Norman culture. On my land, French history crossed with Spanish history and then became part of the larger country of the "Great Beauty" which is Italy. Today I am proud to be Italian but I know that in my DNA traces of different peoples and cultures can be found. Being part of the Sicilian people is for me like being part of a single people: the people of the world.
Dreamscapes of Sicily !!!!
Today I understand more than ever that this richness can be further enhanced if shown through the dreamy light of the night. Who has never dreamed of looking and traveling to the stars? The dimension of the dream becomes the means to embark on this journey.
Today I understand more than ever that this richness can be further enhanced if shown through the dreamy light of the night. Who has never dreamed of looking and traveling to the stars? The dimension of the dream becomes the means to embark on this journey.
I would like everyone to dream like me after admiring my images and reading my stories. A photograph cannot be defined as such if it does not tell a story. Only in this way anyone who looks at one of my shots will be able to dream of being virtually with me in the fantastic landscapes of Sicily.
He will be able to breathe the scents of fresh spring grass or feel the cold on his face under the crystalline winter sky.
He will be able to listen to the sound of the sea waves, breathe the sweet and pungent taste of the salt and at the same time admire the arch of the summer Milky Way rising and extending over the celestial vault.
He will be amazed in an autumn cloaked in the warm colors of the Etna woods, which, illuminated by the light of the moon and lava, mix with the turquoise of the sky.
My photographs also offer the opportunity to travel in time and dream of being in Segesta during the night and to imagine how life could unfold around its Doric temple. Through them you can relive the atmosphere of the Pantalica valley, imagining the fires of the villages that illuminate the cliffs with thousands of tombs carved into the rock.
One People, One Sky
Thanks to the night sky I can travel and take you with me to distant places and times by accessing the dimension of dreams. The sky is therefore a precious resource that we must protect because, through it, we can rediscover the pleasure of dreaming, appreciating the beauty and history of our land ... but let me tell you ... of our world. One people under one sky !!!!