“Tribal Ice” is a series of images captured in the mountains above Bormio.
On a freezing winter night, frost begins to play, drawing on a sheet of glass at over 2000 meters of altitude.
Not mere ice crystals, but true natural hieroglyphs: shapes resembling feathers, symbols, vegetal patterns, or ritual tattoos.
In its silence, nature carves ephemeral messages destined to vanish with the first light of day.
Photographed at dawn, these formations are fragile and temporary, yet within their details lies unexpected complexity: micro forests of needles, spirals, fans, frozen architectures.
Each one different, each one unrepeatable.
Tribal Ice #01 opens the series with a dense, dynamic weave, where the frost appears like layered feathers in a chaotic dance. In the background, a warm orange glow threads through the patterns, like fire refracted in the ice. A visual and symbolic contrast: heat and cold, chaos and balance.
An image that pulses, almost alive, like a ritual frozen at the very moment it was about to begin.
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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