The religious community of Bose is born on December, 8th 1965, the day of closing of the Vatican II council, when Enzo Bianchi decides to live, alone, in a rented house of the village of Bose. First monks joined him three years later: among them, a woman and a pastor. Today, they are 80 people, men, and women. This series is about the second monastery that they opened a few years ago in the south of Italy, in the region of Puglia. The closest towns are Ostuni and Brindisi. The monastery is much smaller. Just five monks live there: Daniele, Domenico, Dario, Andrea and Raffaele. They pray, take care of hundreds of olive trees and a garden that provides almost every sort of vegetables and...

The ground under your feet is a project started in 1999 and still in progress. Its own subject is my life, ourselves, Europe. With this work I try to photograph the history of Europe in my lifetime, my personal history and the one anybody can recognize as his own, the past and the present, trying to show memory from an emotional point of view ; I want to represent through my experience, and the encounters that came out of it, the most different pushes which anybody, in a different percentage, can find in his own heart. This struggle among the most contrasting inner impetus, and the capability of dealing with or at facing them, is what most characterizes anybody's personal history...

Could a place be able to tell something? Could a past suspended come back to life when the sunlight alights once again on its spaces? Is it possible to talk about war without necessarily showing evident and bloody dramas? Two homes tell their stories: that one of their lives, the other of a war leaving them alone, and yet miraculously intact, and yet safe from vandals and jackals; and the one of the last 16 years, during which time stopped, and nobody came to settle. It’s necessary to get in on tiptoe, not to disturb that feeling of quiet and immobility, not to lift too much dust settled on furniture and memories, covering everything with the patina of a time that is gone and won’t return...

In these photos you can see Ewa and Piotr Sosnowski; they are brother and sister and live together since the death of their father, six years ago (2003). Six years ago I got an apartment in Cracow, where intermittently I spent part of my life. Since about the same period, I began seeing Ewa on my way, or walking in the park with her dog, or on the bus. I was immediately fascinated by her, so I took my courage in hand and tried to approach her, to talk to her, to take some pictures; without result for more than two years. Only disdainful refusals. One day I pay a visit to a dear friend who sells old curiosities in a local street market. She tells me that she has been approached by a woman,...

This work has been mainly realised in Havana. Photographs are not meant to explain anything. Fragments from a real well as unreal world; the quest for a metaphysical mood, able to remove its images from the present. Everything has been shot, and since Havana has been the subject of several pictures, I then undertook this project with stronger enthusiasm; the city provides the scenery, yet it is not the main character. And, beside that, I think Havana is much more secret and mysterious than the standard idea everybody has made of old cars, cigars and Che Guevara images. The project goes under the title of “Paradiso”, like one of the most important novels of the Cuban literature, by...