In the Vallée Blanche glacier, matter takes shape in well-defined ice formations: strong, twisted crevasses emerge in contrast to the smooth, uniform surface of the snow—spread out like a spotless sheet.
The light enhances its suspended whiteness, but a single rupture reveals the landscape’s other face: deep blue, solid ice cutting through the surface with sharp fractures and mysterious cavities.
This is a scene of contrasts: between light and shadow, frozen liquid and solid form, soft curves and sudden cuts. Each crevasse is a natural gesture, a mark etched into the white.
The composition doesn’t just depict a place: it’s not an alpine view, but an image exploring lines, volumes, and transitions. Surfaces reshape the scene, where ice lines become architecture, and snowy curves turn into canvas.
It is a natural landscape, abstract and sculptural, transcending documentation to become visual composition—its contours defined by a crisp silence, as rarefied as the high-altitude air.
Born in Milan on November 28, 1977, I’ve been living in Bormio for many years, where I work as a ski instructor and draw endless inspiration from the surrounding mountains and nature.
Photography, to me, is not just about representation, it’s about interpretation.
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