This image is part of the Neve collection, a series of photographs captured on Fujifilm Velvia 50 ASA slide film. Each photograph bears a unique title, “Neve”, and represents a variation on the theme of snow as visual matter.
In this work, snow is not described, it is interpreted.
Gentle underexposure and raking light reveal textures and contrasts that the naked eye often overlooks.
Forms are simplified, details reduced to lines, curves, and planes: the landscape itself becomes abstraction, in an image that seeks not realism, but essence.
Often, the final effect evokes almost lunar landscapes, where the material seems to belong to another world.
Velvia, with its renowned saturation and sensitivity to cool tones, enhances blue nuances and delivers an intense, almost painterly vision. Snow is not white: it is blue.
Born in Milan on November 28, 1977, I’ve been living in Bormio for many years, where I work as a ski instructor and draw endless inspiration from the surrounding mountains and nature.
Photography, to me, is not just about representation, it’s about interpretation.
Many of my..
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