I’m an engineer, a microelectronics engineer. Not long after graduating from the Engineering College of the University of Rome, “La Sapienza,” I began my migration northward. I lived for sixteen years in Saronno, not far from the heart of Milan, where I proudly worked in an R&D unit of Ericsson AB.
On October 1st, 2014, the R&D site where I was based was handed over to a new company, a leader in the technology consultancy market. I immediately felt it was no longer my harbor. Not long afterward, I decided to set sail and steer my boat elsewhere. So I moved to Austria, to Graz, where I am currently working as an Engineering Manager for a world-leading semiconductor company.
My past professional activity often took me to foreign countries across Europe, where my previous company operated and developed business: Scandinavia, the UK, France, Germany, and Hungary, to name a few. This gave me the opportunity to practice and explore the mysteries of photography. Travel, airports, streets, and night scenes have been recurring subjects in my pictures. The same applies to black-and-white photography, for which I developed a personal recipe to post-process—or rather, to elaborate—my shots.
I started writing and maintaining this blog in 2010 as a complementary section of my (now discontinued) website, where I once kept my personal scroll-page of news and thoughts. After some time, I realized that using a customizable platform such as Blogger would allow me to save time, update more frequently, and reach a wider visual audience.
To my regret, the evolution of online social media is apparently making the use of personal photography blogs increasingly outdated. We could argue endlessly about the meaning of the word “photography” today and what remains of it compared to no more than ten years ago.
Despite this trend, I still believe in the power of the blog, where I am free to decide what and how to present, without worrying about the number of “likes” or “views” I receive. That is why these pages are still alive.
It’s my album. Enjoy the visit!
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