“Tribal Ice” is a series of images taken in the mountains above Bormio.
On a harsh winter night, frost plays and draws on a glass pane at over 2000 meters of altitude.
These are not simple ice crystals, but true natural hieroglyphs, shapes that resemble feathers, symbols, plant patterns, or ritual tattoos.
It is nature, in its silence, engraving ephemeral messages destined to vanish with the first light of day.
Photographed at dawn, these formations are fragile and temporary, yet reveal an unexpected complexity in their detail: micro-forests of needles, spirals, fans, frozen architectures.
Each one different, each one unrepeatable.
Tribal Ice #04 stands out for its density: the frozen shapes seem to chase one another, overlap, and merge into a layered, dynamic weave.
There is no single center, but a multitude of trajectories branching out as if something were growing before our eyes.
The crystalline structures overlap like the pages of an unknown alphabet, slowly revealing themselves to the attentive viewer.
It’s a small, ordered chaos: a frozen forest multiplying in every direction, like a thought that refuses to end.
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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