When a group of photographers, guided by a master of rare humanity, embarks on a different journey — an inward one — the impact of the exhibition becomes personal and revelatory. Every project has its own precise and distinct identity: from conception to selection, from the choice of words as a complementary element to the final exhibition. It writes the grammar of a translation that turns silences into images.

I am very glad to have taken part as a prompter in this collective reflection, invited by Pino Giannini.
In these projects, photography does not merely stop time. It releases wonder.

The film, released in 1980, is the second chapter in Argento’s Three Mothers trilogy, following Suspiria. Where Suspiria is inseparable from Goblin’s legendary score, Inferno takes a different musical path: its soundtrack was composed and performed by Keith Emerson, the keyboard giant of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The result is less rock-band ritual and more feverish symphonic nightmare — piano, organ, orchestral drama, progressive-rock tension, and that unmistakable Emerson sense of danger.

🌆 Citysink is a surreal Berlin cyber-noir trip in which a brilliant inventor leaves his retro-tech high-rise workspace on an azure bicycle, witnesses an impossible reality glitch at a currywurst kiosk, and is pulled into a paranoid underworld of surveillance, bureaucracy, wild animals, analog machines, and metaphysical decay.

This song is the echo of that story: a soundscape born from a nomad’s bonfire, a missing cloth, a restless herd, and the quiet resistance of people who still live by rhythms older than modern convenience. Before or after you listen, read the story that inspired it.

La Magia e la Storia dei Luoghi Siamo Noi was a live encounter between photography, theatre, music and dance: not simply a projection of images, but a collective performance in which every photograph became a story, every text became voice, every sound opened an emotional space, and every gesture transformed vision into stage presence.

The event took place on Saturday 25 January 2025 inside the performance space of SPAZIO MATTA in Pescara, curated and organised by Fotografia Pino Giannini. The project brought together a group of photographers and authors around a series of short visual narratives: individual photographic thoughts, yet conceived as part of a shared team effort.

In the very last stretch before the pandemic, I began playing organ with SAKILI, a Berlin-based roots-reggae and chanson project led by Antoine Villoutreix. We rehearsed in Pepe Rasmus Weissgerber’s practice room around Ostkreuz: a warm, lived-in Proberaum with that very particular Berlin mixture of music, craft, odd equipment, wood dust, friendship, and unfinished plans.

I never played a gig with SAKILI. My whole chapter with the band happened in that rehearsal room, where I tried to learn and play their complete setlist on organ. It was beautiful, but it was also daunting. Reggae is not as simple as it may sound from the outside, and at that time I was going through a very stressful period in Berlin. Eventually I left the band, and not long after that I left Berlin for good.

This video is the official behind-the-scenes documentary filmed in Los Angeles during the recording sessions of A Vision, an original jazz album by Italian vocalist, lyricist, educator, and composer Lorena Fontana. The making-of was directed by Alessandra Arcieri, with my contribution focused on audio and video editing: assembling the material into a coherent short documentary and shaping the raw footage into a narrative that could preserve the intimate, concentrated, and collaborative atmosphere of the session.

The line-up featured:

• Osanna
• Goblin / Daemonia
• Premiata Forneria Marconi

The event brought together three central names in the history of Italian progressive rock: the Mediterranean theatricality of Osanna, the cinematic atmospheres of Goblin through Claudio Simonetti’s Daemonia project, and the international dimension of Premiata Forneria Marconi.

Osanna

Osanna are one of the most representative bands in Italian progressive rock. Formed in Naples in the early 1970s, they quickly stood out for a musical language that combined rock, jazz, Mediterranean folk influences and a strong theatrical component.