“Tribal Ice” is a series of images captured in the mountains above Bormio.
On a freezing winter night, frost begins to play, drawing on a sheet of glass at over 2000 meters of altitude.
Not mere ice crystals, but true natural hieroglyphs: shapes resembling feathers, symbols, vegetal patterns, or ritual tattoos.
In its silence, nature carves ephemeral messages destined to vanish with the first light of day.
Photographed at dawn, these formations are fragile and temporary, yet within their details lies unexpected complexity: micro forests of needles, spirals, fans, frozen architectures.
Each one different, each one unrepeatable.
Tribal Ice #02 stands out for its ordered elegance. The crystals spread like a fan, half-open wings of a silent creature, or the frozen tail of an icy peacock.
The lines are clean, harmonious, almost calligraphic: as if watching an ideogram etched delicately on the surface.
An image that does not shout, but whispers, and in that whisper lies all the hidden grace of winter.
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.
Many of my..
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