Born in Umbria, Italy,after a carrier as a volleyball player he has worked as an assistant in a project for Fratelli Alinari (the world’s oldest photographic firm founded in Florence). After a brief experience in Toronto, Canada, he moved in 1992 to Vienna, where he started to work as a photo researcher for the Anzenberger Agency. He began frequent travel to the East and was based for five years in Sydney, Australia, a convenient base for producing a variety of reportages, such as The City Preparing for the Olympics, a project on Australian outdoor life and the Chatham Island for the Millennium feature. After many China-based assignments and features, he decided to relocate to Shanghai in 2004. His photos from Shanghai were widely published and shown at various galleries. In 2005 his feature on the Sigma Recycling Factory in Shanghai was projected at Visa Pour L’image, France. His Ping Pong School pictures were exhibited at the Leica Gallery in Solms.

He has been represented by the Anzenberger Agency since 1992, and a 16-page printed portfolio of his work on Shanghai was published by the agency in 2001 and the reportage on Chongqing featured in the Book East edited in 2008.
He is currently based in Shanghai but working in many locations in Asia, mainly under assignment to editorial, corporate and portrait projects. He has been published in many magazines worldwide.

In 2009 he has started a blog on Fine Art Photography called Augenblick the blog features articles and reviews on fine art photography. He has also contributing in some layout of books and he has curated some exhibitions from other photographers.

Editorial Clients:
New York Times, Time Asia, Newsweek, Fortune, (USA) Vanity Fair Germany, Merian, Marie Claire, GQ, Amica, Focus, Brigitte (Germany), Panorama, Corriere Magazine, D Repubblica, Newton, Internazionale (Italy), Geo Japan, Geo Korea, Silkroad , Discovery , Silkroad, (Hong Kong), The Australian Magazine, She Magazine, The Goodweekend (Australia) El Mundo Magazine (Spain), Daily Telegraph Magazine, The Times, The Financial Review (UK) and many others
Corporate Clients:
Allianz, Australian Consulate, Selle Royal, Vini Caprai, Valeo, Volvo, Kongsberg, Tilo Austria, ItaliaServizi, Arkema France, GTZ Germany, Lenzing Fibers, PPG, Nestle’, Standford University and others

Main Exhibitions :
Reportage festival Sydney (Australia) – Australia(ns) – 2001
Palazzo Trinci Foligno (Italy) – L’Isola di Adesso – 2002
Villa Amoretti Turin (Italy) – Australia(ns) – 2002
Leica Gallery Solms (Germany) – Ping Pong School in Shanghai – 2005
Anzenberger Gallery Vienna (Austria) – Shanghai – 2004
Sanjiangyuan International Photography Festival in Qinghai (China) -Shanghai-2006
Italian Cultural Office in Shanghai (China) – Shanghai 2006
Visa Pour l’Image Perpignan (France) – Slideshow -Sigma Recycling factory in Shanghai – 2006
Canti e Discanti Festival Foligno (Italy) – Cambodia, a Survived Land – 2008
PIngyao Photo Festival (China) – Cosplayer in China – 2009