Tell us about your place of residence, city or region, activity and if or what you like about your place of residence?

I am a self-taught photographer born in Switzerland. After graduation, I obtained a master's degree in directing at EICAR, but later I began to get interested in my passion for photography, honing my skills in both the digital and analogue fields. I have exhibited in Italy, France and the United States and some of my works are currently exhibited in various locations. I approached photography by chance, I wanted to give "life" to the things I wrote, in the end I preferred it to writing. My work is linked to a creation of ambiguous and cinematic images that border on the real and the fantastic.
Despite my scientific and legal studies, art and literature have always played a primary role in my life, after university I began to follow this passion of mine.I started writing short stories but I wanted to combine images with words, so I came to photography. But in the end I preferred it to writing: more direct. An image can replace a thousand words and add a thousand different ones, it depends on who is looking at it. unhealthy ideas, as it would surely be in the line of Russ Meyer or John Waters.
Since I was a child I have always been a compulsive cinephile. I am attracted to old films and B-Movies where the absurd is associated with the everyday, where colors are a priority. I've always found humor in the mundane associated with absurdity, which is why I love Hitchcock who was a master of creating a creepy effect in a familiar environment, like Kubrick. The Shining was one of the first movies I saw as a teenager, I had never seen anything more perfect and still, with the ability to combine such beautiful and visually striking images with a truly terrifying storyline.

Your must-see addresses near you? (restaurant, market, gallery, museum, not to be missed, intimate or secret address, etc.)

I have been living in Sardinia for a few years. It is not easy to choose what to see in Sardinia, but before thinking about the places and wonders of this land with its wild spirit and island feeling, we should train our eyes and soul to look with the eyes of those who were born in this land and lived. Among the most beautiful places to visit in Sardinia is the Maddalena Archipelago with its 7 islands, of which La Maddalena and Caprera are the largest. Only these can be visited by car, while the others are accessible only by boat, or Cala Grande, a small valley that in the 1960s was labeled "Valley of the Moon" by the hippy communities of the time. Frequented by naturists, it is a lunar valley, full of granite rocks of different shapes, sinuous and curved, shaped by the wind and salt, which light up at night like small fluorescent white flashes. And also the dunes of Piscinas, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, loved by surfers as they are located in a very windy area where very high waves crash. These dunes are about 60 meters high and are the refuge of sea turtles that come here to nest, and of Sardinian deer that sneak among juniper shrubs. And in any case it is really difficult to list the beautiful places to see since there are so many.

Your favorite addresses on Earth?

I read in an industry magazine that the future of the travel industry is shaped by technological innovations such as machine learning, facial recognition and virtual guides.

Therefore I am not the right person to answer this question, I am an "old-fashioned" traveler without pretentions, in fact I prefer trips without a specific destination, without comfort and often [if not for work commitments] without advance booking. Basically my travels are like my film cameras.

Do you think it is important to travel and why?

In my opinion, travel is curiosity. The curiosity that drives you to go to perhaps little-known, wild destinations to have new adventures and enrich your knowledge. Whatever the motivation for the trip, it is an experience that, perhaps once in a lifetime, we should all have.

What do you think about the future of travel and what we (citizens) should consider?

Traveling shapes people, in fact, when they return they are no longer the same, because they "grow" from a cultural, social and moral point of view. Ultimately, if we think about it, life is nothing more than an infinite journey to discover what we don't know: places, traditions, foods, people, customs, customs, cultures, and, most importantly, "ourselves". When we travel we open up to the world, we broaden our horizons, we learn to distinguish what is right from what is wrong, to understand who we really are and who we want to be. Travel allows us to change perspective, to look at the world with different eyes.

As a woman, how do you judge the future of our earth or our societies? How do you think you contribute to it? Women who mark you?

More than anything it was fueled by cinema. I am attracted to old films and B-Movies where the absurd is associated with everyday life, where colors are a priority element. I have always found humor in the banal associated with the absurd, which is why I love Hitchcock who was a master of creating a disturbing effect in a familiar setting, like Kubrick. The Shining was one of the first films I saw as a teenager, I had never seen anything more perfect and still, with the ability to combine such beautiful and visually stunning images with a truly terrifying plot.

What would be your dream travel?

 The themes vary, it depends on what I read or see, a book, a film, a documentary. A light bulb must go on. For example, the "Suburbia Life" series was born after reading Lewitttown, which is the name of seven large suburban housing developments created by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons, built after World War II. Together with the house, which on average cost 8,000 dollars, a regulation was delivered: among other things, the garden could not be fenced off or clothes hung out on Sundays; on the other hand, the buyer could afford a real house, complete with appliances (television and washing machine) at the cost of rent in the city. According to historian Lewis Mumford “The suburb served as a refuge for the preservation of illusion (…). This was not simply a child-centered environment, it was based on a childish view of the world, in which reality was sacrificed to the pleasure principle.” This is why I used J.G.'s phrase. Ballard “Prosperous suburbia was one of the end-states of history. Once achieved, only plague, flood, or nuclear war could threaten its grip.” Although the topic is unique, the images have a story of their own, I see them as episodes of a story as a way of communicating a still moment from a story, frozen in time. I don't really like static images so I try to make the model seem almost in motion. The "still image" is certainly a great influence in my work. I am fascinated by the contradiction of an image that can be both moving and still. I find the locations by walking around, sometimes the photo is born just by seeing a place, a house, even just a fence. As far as post-production is concerned, I use it as little as necessary, before I was a lover of "transformations", but some time ago my photos were more elaborate, darker, and post-production helped me to give that intensity that I saw it in a simple shot.