This project came to life during the course of four years (2019-22) thanks to different trips to the Puna region, located on the Andean plateau which extends between north of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. It's a display of the different sceneries of a high altitude desert, photographed over the course of summer and autumn. Under many aspects it has been the most difficult project i've ever attempted, given the high altitude environment, between 3000m and 5000m, and the remoteness of the places which made logistics very challenging especially for a solo traveller. It has been a great and exhausting adventure exclusively on offroad tracks in which i went back to an "explore and shoot" photographic approach, all in large format film.

LS XII: Argentina, Chile, Bolivia 2019-22. Limited edition of 10, 120x150cm (47x59") or 64x80cm (25x32"), c-type print on photographic paper from 4x5" negative drum scanned.

"Vistas is composed of multiple exposures shots on 4x5” negative film and Microscapes, high resolution scans of colours & solvents compositions, dealing respectively with our perception of Time and Space. Departing from my previous landscape works I aimed to create images that present an altered Time dimension, through the use of multiple and/or very long exposures. With these images, I wanted to suggest that the nature of what our brain feels as the flowing of Time is more likely to be a different entity which doesn’t share the same qualities that we naturally perceive, and of which we cannot get to understanding at the moment. Through multiple exposures I played with the position of Sun and Moon which are the celestial bodies that naturally set the length of our day and month; while the use of very long exposures created scenes with light gradients that didn’t exist within conscious perception. Similarly, but dealing with Space, the high resolution scans reveal new landscapes that exist on a scale too minute for the naked eye to see. Yet I’ve tried to find in that micro space the same aesthetic qualities I normally search in a landscape”.

LS XI: Vistas Paradossales, Canaries & Milan, 2018. Limited edition, 120x150cm (47x59") or 64x80cm (25x32"), c-type print on photographic paper from 4x5" negative drum scanned.

The values of our civilization, that we all take for granted and into which we so deeply live, have little to say if confronted with the general principle of Life we're born from; all knowledge and crafts we've put together so far have absolutely no answers about how and eventually why this living experience has generated, nor can say a thing about what the place we're living into really is.

LS X, United States, 2017. Limited edition, 120x150cm (47x59") or 64x80cm (25x32"), c-type print on photographic paper from 4x5" negative drum scanned.

The red sand reflects the color of millions past suns. Rocks dwelled in primordial seas. The cycle, the multiplicity of countless worlds. Alone in an idle wait, away from things, people and thoughts. The whole and its inner meaning, where at once everything is simple and nothing stands in-between far away things. I'm a stranger here, more than i've ever been.

LS IX, Morocco, 2016. Limited edition, 120x150cm (47x59") or 64x80cm (25x32"), c-type print on photographic paper from 4x5" negative drum scanned.

The dawn of mankind, a time with no rationality. An ancestor contemplating the cosmos perceives the necessity of a divinity. The Second Cosmogony takes place along with the miracle of self-thinking consciousness. In that moment he knows he exists for a reason; he's got the significative element and this had found a way to reveal itself to him. Conscious and Unconscious got together in the creation of the Self.

LS IV to VIII, Spain, Morocco, Croatia, Iceland, 2014-16. Limited edition, 120x150cm (47x59") or 64x80cm (25x32"), c-type print on photographic paper from 4x5" negative drum scanned.