Grounded In The Moment

I’ve been living in Munich for the past seven years, but I’m originally from South Tyrol, a region in northern Italy where the Dolomites shape the horizon, and silence holds more weight than noise. Life there has its own rhythm, slower and more grounded. That way of  seeing time stayed with me, even after moving to the city. 

My daily life still moves between two parallel tracks. One is analytical and fast-paced: I  work full-time as a manager in a multinational energy company. The other is more instinctive. This is where photography lives. These two sides often compete for time and energy. Some weeks, the work calendar wins. Other times, the camera does. But over the years, I’ve realized I need both. Photography has become my way to breathe. 

I didn’t enter this world through a master plan. In 2013, my mother gave me a Nikon  D5300 for Christmas, along with a couple of old manual lenses. That was the beginning. I added a Tamron 24–70mm, and from that point on, I always carried a camera.