Poems

A picture is a poem without words. So every story I photograph ends with one.

Here you’ll find 29 poems written between Italy and the Netherlands, some of them awarded and published. Read them on their own, or next to the portraits they were written for.

Poetry

Poetry

Start
here:

A poem about falling and getting up again, stronger each time. The heart of everything I photograph

You’ve chased me that day,
You’ve challenged me,
mocking me,
Ignoring that I could accept it…
Every time you’ve tried
to destroy my charachter,
every time I came back slowly on tiptoe
and stronger than ever …

….

Awarded
poetry:

My poems and short novels have received gold mentions, a merit award at the Alda Merini National Prize and two places in the final of The Flight of Pegasus, a competition dedicated to rare diseases.

“A portrait, a story and a poem. Shall we make yours?”

Every photo narrative ends with a poem written for the person in it.