2019 – Present
I put down the solvents and began asking a different question: what happens when photography ceases to be about constructing images and instead becomes a way of building relationships?
I stopped directing isolated portrait sessions and began spending days with small groups of people. Sharing meals, navigating silence, enduring boredom—these became as significant as the final photographs. The camera no longer captured a predetermined idea; it simply witnessed the slow, fragile emergence of trust.
The body changed in my frame, too. No longer a formal element to be cut and pasted, it became a presence. Nudity, when it appears, is neither provocation nor spectacle, but the removal of one last social layer. I wait for performance to give way to simple existence.
Much of this recent work circles contemporary masculinity—not to define it, but to create situations where inherited scripts of strength and stoicism temporarily dissolve. These encounters have unfolded across Italy, the United States, Colombia, Cuba, and Vietnam. Each location carries its own cultural weight, but the methodology remains constant: time, collaboration, and mutual trust. Today, the photograph is no longer the work itself; it is simply the trace left behind by a much larger encounter.