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I'm an Italian freelance photographer living in Tel Aviv. Born in Milan, Mario Troiani has been deeply involved in photography since the age of 13. After receiving a degree in computer science and working for two years in software development, Troiani began doing travel photography full time, spending two years in India, Indonesia, and China. His photos from that period appeared in a number of travel magazines, including De Agostini, Gente Viagge, Dove and Terre Sauvage. Next, he spent four months in Lapland as official photographer in a scientific research team that was assessing the impact of the Chernobyl disaster on the food chain. His subsequent career as a freelance photographer took him throughout Europe and beyond (including Brazil and Morocco). One product of this period was his photographic contributions to the Italian travel guidebook Istituto Geografico de Agostini. Beyond photography, Troiani periodically took on projects in computer science, including working on software development in the field of artificial intelligence. Starting in 1996, he spent twelve years as head of a project using digitalization technology to restore classic Italian movies, involving intricate work with original copies, on behalf of such film companies as Medusa Film, Istituto Luce, MovieTime, and Warner Brothers. The films he restored encompassed the major directors of the postwar era, including Fellini, Antonioni, De Sica, Rossellini, Lizzani, and many others.