I was born in 1956 in Ferrara, which is located in northern Italy, not far from Venice. In 1983 I moved to Sweden, founded with Robert Jakobsson Theatre Albatross and worked as an actress for the next six years. I was constantly touring in Europe, it was an intense time but I continued to photograph, because that was what I really wanted to do. It was staged images of reality that I worked with, and that work is still going on today. I have written a short story book "La vita che volevo", which was published in Italy in 2018, and in 2021 I published another book as an editor for my old theatre group: "Theatre Albatross, performances, travel, art and visions".

I started taking pictures when I was fifteen. I was in Florence and met a photographer called Danilo. We became kind of friends and he let me borrow his camera, I can't really remember why. But I took a lot of pictures for about three days and then I just gave the camera back to him. He spent a long time looking at the negatives, and then he said something that changed the rest of my life: Hai l’occhio - you've an eye for it.

That was it, photography became "my thing".

Of course, I wanted to be a war reporter straight off. I was stunned by Don Mc Cullin's photos of the Vietnam war, but I ended up taking shots of rock concerts and never became much good at it either! I loved buying Zoom - the photo magazine - and I soon found out about the great masters: Lartigue, Atget, Adams, Doisneau, Modotti, Erwitt … but it was especially Sarah Moons pictures that struck a chord on me. Moon’s photographs were ethereal, painterly, romantic, beautiful. She has said: “For me, photography is pure fiction…I am expressing something, an echo of the world maybe. “

I bought a "Do it yourself" book by Andreas Feininger and learned how to develop the camera film. Having overcome the obstacle of film development comes perhaps the most interesting part of the whole process: the transformation of the shots on film into photographic prints. I bought an enlarger and my sleeping room became my “mobile dark room” during the procedure. I shout to everybody in the house -DON’T COME IN! - .

It was magical to see the pictures come slowly “Alive”.  I was doing black and white for years and years. Surely analogue darkroom printing has an immortal appeal and is still surrounded by a strong romantic aura today. It was like… slow food or consuming just the essential.  But suddenly it was all about colour, and it was like discovering a new world… and then the digital era come with almost infinite possibilities….

In addition to my passion for photography, I have always written. I had a mountain of diaries, which I decided to burn a few years ago. Writing things has helped me to overcome confusion, anguish, the inherent difficulties of living…  I've always read a lot, that's what I like, reading books and writing.