Lights, shadows, contrast, sarcasm, and the hunting of visual poetry. The atmosphere of city life ignites my curiosity, leading me to capture real moments with the camera.
Ordinary life creates the most attractive and charming pictures
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Awards
Scatti da Collezione — Honorable Mention. 2025
Festival della Fotografia Italiana – PERCORSI — Finalist, 2nd edition. 2025
Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival — Finalist, Greece. 2025
Italian Street Photo Festival (ISPF) — Storytelling Finalist, judged by Matt Black. 2024
Gomma Photography Grant — Finalist, La Cantata dei Giorni Dispari. 2023
36 Shots About — Winner for Naples, Scugnizzo Liberato project.
Trieste Photo Days — Honorable Mention, La Cantata dei Giorni Dispari, selected by Jérôme Sessini. 2023
Urbanautica Institute Awards — Portfolio Special Mention. 2022
Corigliano Calabro Fotografia Book Award — Winner, 3rd edition.
Exibart Street Contest — Finalist. 2021
Urbanautica Awards – What’s the Urgency? — Portfolio Special Mention, Naples Is Not Changing. 2021
LensCulture Street Photography Awards — Finalist. 2021
All About Photo Awards – Merit Awards — Finalist. 2021
MAVI Museum – 1801 Passaggi — Finalist, documentary photography competition inspired by Frank Cancian, 4th edition.
Urbanautica / Ragusa Foto Festival – About Desire — Shortlisted. 2020
Exibart Street Contest — Finalist. 2019
CIFA – Crediamo ai tuoi occhi — 2nd Place, 13th edition. 2019
Indian Photo Festival — Finalist with the book An Ordinary Day. 2017
Miami Street Photography Festival — Finalist. 2016
Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA) — Finalist, 3rd edition. 2016
StreetFoto San Francisco Awards — Finalist, Best Street Photography Series. 2016
Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) — 3rd Prize. 2015
Mirano Fotografia — Winner. 2015
Miami Street Photography Festival — People’s Choice Winner. 2014
London International Street Photography Awards — Shortlisted. 2014
FOFU Photo Challenge — Finalist. 2013
Spazio 23 Award — Finalist, Genova. September 2013
CIFA – Crediamo ai tuoi occhi — Finalist, 10th edition. 2013
Portfolio Lucinico — Winner, Gorizia. 2013
FOFU Photo Challenge — Finalist. 2011
Portfolio Fabriano Photo Festival — Winner, Fabriano (AN), Italy. 2010
Sony World Photography Awards — Shortlisted. 2009Magazine Features
Foto IT — No. 06. 2023
Il Fotografo — No. 335. 2022
Gente di Fotografia — No. 77. 2021
Foto IT — No. 06. 2020
Eyeshot — No. 01. 2018
La Chiave di Sophia — No. 8. May 2018
Foto IT — No. 05. 2017
Fotografare — No. 11. 2017
Progresso Fotografico — No. 38, Serie Oro. 2016
FotoCult — No. 03. 2015
About Photography — No. 6, Spring 2015
Vieworld — No. 7. January 2014
Progresso Fotografico — No. 13, Serie Oro. 2011
Fotografia Reflex — No. 03. 2011
Il Fotografo — No. 03. 2009
Web Publications
Lomography x Perimetro – 36 Shots About: La tua Storia in un Rullino — Lomography
Alla ricerca della bellezza: l’arte fotografica di Umberto Verdoliva — Interview on WhipArt Magazine
Les coups de cœur #449 — Fisheye Magazine
Street photographer: intervista a Umberto Verdoliva — Interview on Artribune
Le stelle mancanti — MED MAG
Portfolio — All About Photo, Modern Photographers
Procida – Isola non Trovata — EyesOpen Magazine
Le stelle mancanti — F-STOP Magazine, Offspring Fotomeet, Discarded Magazine
Il tempo degli attimi — Click Magazine
Review by Giuseppe Cicozzetti — Scriptphotography
Family — Landscape Stories, Mon Enfance
Portfolio — Eyeshot Magazine
Sex and the City — LensCulture, Editor’s Pick
Realtà parallele — DP ArteFotografica
Treviso Gay Pride 2016 — L’Oeil de la Photographie
Behind a Glass — LensCulture, Editor’s Pick; iGNANT; INSP; Collateral Magazine
Prigioniero della privacy — LensCulture, Editor’s Pick; Kwerfeldein; Rinse; Vieworld No. 7; Repubblica.it
Amen — Monovisions
What Is a Dream? — OAI 13; LensCulture, Editor’s Pick
Il retrovisore — Excerpt Magazine No. 3; Bird in Flight
I Am Like You — Clic-hè; F8 Magazine; Posi+tive Magazine; Repubblica.it; Le Journal de la Photographie
Città Mentale — Fotologie
Collaborations
Book collaboration — with Anders Rorgren, Erwin Rademaker, Greg Schmilgel and Louise Fryer
Italy – Unposed — Book with Mary Cimetta and Gigi Alberti
In altre parole by Jhumpa Lahiri — Cover photograph for the Japanese edition, Shinchosha
Goethe-Institut – VIA Project — Selected author. 2015
Miami Street Photography Festival (MSPF) — Judge. 2015
Progresso Fotografico — No. 38, feature on street photography in Italy. 2016
Imago Orbetello Festival — Judge. 2017, 2018, 2019
FIAF — Collaboration with the web department and Foto IT
FIAF Family Project — Fujifilm Italia testimonial. 2018
Italian Street Photo Festival — Talk and workshop, Rome. 2018
Italian Street Photo Festival — Portfolio review, Rome. 2019
Archive
La Gondola Photographic Archive — Venice, Italy
FIAF Photographic Archive — Italian Federation of Photographic Associations, Italy
Stivers School for the Arts Photographic Archive — Dayton, Ohio, USA
Curated Exhibitions
100 Attimi. Fotografia di strada — Group exhibition, Museo dei Carraresi, Treviso. 2017
Non in posa — Group exhibition, Castello Medievale del Cassero, Prato. 2013