“Mondo Piccolo” is an ongoing personal project that tells about places and situations in the suburbs of Northern Italy, where I was born and I grew up. It’s a research about the meaning of “familiar” with two different connotations. From one side, it refers to my personal background and to the feeling of belonging to something. On the other hand, it concerns people’s usual everyday life habits. I am portraying the micro-realities of a suburban area that is for me calm and reassuring. I am interested in portraying a way of living in these small suburban villages, far away from big cities. Here, typical corners are hidden, still not standardized. My images are quiet moments, in which I slow down and I try to make mine the subject I portray, either a person or an object. Often it’s the light only that creates the right conditions for the perfect image, a non-place where nothing happens.

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