I was born in a family of seafarers and Navy officers for generations and I was the
single one to study Medicine and become a medical doctor. I loved photography
since my earlier days in the medical career and I became a photographer a
passionate story teller after going into retirement and after attending seminars run
by John Stanmeyer of National Geographic, and by Salwan Georges of the
Washington Post. I was in my early thirties and seven years into my medical career,
when I moved to Mozambique and worked there, as a surgeon and the only doctor
heading a 120-beds rural hospital in the south of the country, for four years, 1977
to 1981. I then moved to Zanzibar, Tanzania, as head of an Italian medical team.
Subsequently, I joined UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and for over 20
years I was posted to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South, West and North
Africa, India, the United States, Iran, Albania. I live in Rome and travel to where
photography takes me. In May 2024, I did an exhibition of my photographic story
“Hospital of Hope”. My work captures the intersection of medical humanitarianism
and raw human emotion, highlighting the fight against HIV/AIDS one person at a
time, fight that is not only medical, but social as it provides patients and care givers
as the grannies of HIV-orphaned children with a roof, food and little cash.
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