From minerals to VIPs: passion in one photograph.
A passion born unexpectedly. My debut behind a camera device was determined by….stones. Of course, not ordinary stones, but high-ranking, fossil, minerals, “living crystals”, collected with love and competence by me, as a young researcher, who aimed to catalogue them at best, enriching them with sharp and precise images. Since no one was willing to photograph them, when I was nearly 16 years old, I didn’t lose hope and decided to do it myself, showing even then my inner determination: with the savings of one year earned by doing various small projects – 600 lire of 30 years ago – I, the future VIPs photographer, bought a nikon and made my debut in the field of photography. From nothing everything can start, so soon this innocent hobby turned into a real passion which brought me to become a publicist journalist; I learnt all the secrets of this profession from Tonino de Gennaro, iconic owner of Foto Azzurro and master of life and art. Ever since, many things happened and many VIPs disembarked on Capri, and each one of them got “caught” and captured by me, since I’m famous for my lightning-fast shots and my artistic camera angles which still nowadays make me the most requested portraitist and official photographer of internationals conventions (such as Sirme and Dixe), global events (for example, the launch of the ship “Maria Grazia Bottiglieri” in Shangai), parties and Vip weddings.