EASTER 2020 Open edition Photograph

I was born in Puglia, in southern Italy. I live and work between Bari and Milan. My artistic nickname is Monzino. For about ten years I worked as a DJ in radio and clubs in Bari and Milan. But I was looking for a better tool to express myself, so I quit my job as a dj to follow my passion for photography. My work comes from my existential condition: loneliness, emptiness, places without people, the flow of time, the cycle of life and death, the fragility of life, the vanity of man are the themes I explore. It’s my inner, lonely journey through life. Photography serves me as a means to contemplate the complexities of my human condition. To deepen and accept the enigmatic nature of existence, to live with my moods. Through my lens I create a visual representation of these themes. I use photography as therapy. To achieve my goal, I have sometimes used contexts that I define as "containers" (as in the case of "(The fish market) Il mercato del pesce or "Il mare racconta: la mattanza (The sea tells: la mattanza)", not to document them but to create “existential" photos. In my pictures the human presence is absent or rarely present. Some of my artistic influences: Kaos by Joseph Koudelka, W. Eugene Smith, The Velvet Underground, The Joy Division, Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick, Caravaggio