Born in Palermo, medical doctor and photographer; worked for several years as a reporter with some local reviews and after a few years I took up working as a photoreporter with the "Giornale di Sicilia" . After graduating in Medicine specializes in travel reportage, creating an archive of several thousand slides taken in Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, France, Spain, Mauritius. Now assistant professor begins to use his photographic skills in the field of medical research and in particular the use of microscopes and image analysis software. In recent years his activity as a reporter led him to collaborate with the agency FotoUp of Milan and, most recently, with the Demotix/Corbis agency. He currently works with some of the most prestigious international web publications as Witness Journal, PhotoPhilies, PhotoJournale. After two years he has dedicated himself to take the various aspects of Japanese society publishes several articles and held an exhibition at the Feltrinelli space in Palermo and in Rome entitled "Taisho". In 2009 its image taken in Tokyo is selected and inserted in a book published in the U.S. "Connection across a human planet" that collects the best pictures of 2009 photographers of some of the world's most prominent publications such as National Geographic, Time, PeaceReporter, Focus,Herald Tribune etc. In 2010 completed a report on the illegal detention of the dictatorship of Argentina that is published in several Italian and foreign newspapers and in 2011 his reportage in New York during Hurricane Irene is accepted for the final stage of the World Press Photo.

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