Born in Turin, at 18 he moved to Bologna to attend the DAMS programme, specialising in Cinema. He took an active part in the city’s political and cultural life within the self-managed spaces of the T.P.O. and the Link, key venues for artistic exchange in a particularly vibrant city. For several years, he honed his skills working first as a camera assistant and later as a camera operator; during the same period, he also created his first works as a director of photography. His passion for travel led him to focus for more than a decade on the documentary and on independent cinema. In 2003, he and a group of friends founded a production company in Havana, Cuba, sponsored by Cuban filmmaker Fernando Pérez. In Cuba, he devoted himself to making documentaries and supervised the photography of H2O, the debut feature by Leo Pérez García. In 2005, in Italy, he worked as a camera operator in the film Private by Saverio Costanzo, a film that won the Pardo d’Oro at the Locarno Film Festival..
He leaves again for a period abroad, two years in Rio de Janeiro, where he works mainly in commercials and music videos. In 2009 he moved to London where he works as director of photography and made the trilogy of art films Cabaret Crusades by Egyptian artist Wael Shawky, exhibited in major contemporary art museums, including MoMA in New York, the Serpentine Gallery and Tate Modern in London. In 2014 he returned to live in Turin with his family. In Italy, among his most important works as director of photography, he signs The lamb by Mario Piredda, the TV series The Hour – Ink vs. lead by Piero Messina, the Italian adaptation of This Is Us, We by Luca Ribuoli, Aphrodite by Stephen Lorenzi, Eggshell e 32 Carats by Ryan W. Harris, the latter starring Richard Floyd and John Lynch. In 2023 he supervised the cinematography of the film Another End by Piero Messina, starring Gael García Bernal, Bérénice Bejo and Renate Reinsve, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. More recently, he shot Beast of Prey by Andrea Corsini, with Carolyne Bracken and Caroline Goodall.
