The best thing about a trip is the people you meet. The camera can create diffidence or bring people closer. For me it is a tool to get in touch with others.
“Can I take a picture of you?” is the phrase I can pronounce in the greatest number of languages.
Just sit on the side of the street and watch what happens around. In silence, with my camera and curious eyes, ready for surprise. I don't ask for much!
Okay, it's a cliché: markets win over all photographers. But what I like the most is when the seller calls me from a stand to be immortalized with his vegetables and when he holds out his dirty, sticky hand with I don't know what. This is real life!
I love to run in the mountains. I discovered it a few years ago and I can't stop doing it. I love to explore the alpine world step by step, aiming for the next pass and beyond. The traveler has never finished walking and sweating: this assures me that the adventure never ends. I can keep walking and taking pictures.
I am fascinated by those places where the sea is black and angry, where the fishing boats with empty nets leave and dock with a full load of fishes and stories. And I come home full of photos.
Leave the city and wander into the countryside, where the gaze can go around and the sun sets later. People have more time even for a photograph. Nepal, Sri Lanka, Morocco, South Africa, Japan, Vietnam, Balkans on the road, in the countryside, out of the urbanized world: I can't get enough, so I take a picture.
