“Tribal Ice” is a series of images captured in the mountains above Bormio.
On a freezing winter night, frost plays freely, sketching on a glass sheet at over 2,000 meters above sea level.
Not just simple ice crystals, but true natural hieroglyphs, forms that resemble feathers, symbols, vegetal patterns, or ritual tattoos.
It’s nature, in its silence, engraving ephemeral messages destined to vanish with the first light of day.
Photographed at dawn, these formations are fragile and fleeting, yet in their detail, they reveal unexpected complexity: micro-forests of needles, spirals, fans, frozen architectures.
Each one different, each one unrepeatable.
Tribal Ice #09 is among the lightest and most floating images of the series: a dance of delicate shapes drifting in still space, like aquatic creatures suspended in a deep seabed.
The crystals stretch in opposite directions like branches moved by a breath, yet they retain an inner harmony reminiscent of Zen calligraphy.
The entire composition feels suspended, almost weightless, a silent dance in the void.
Here, frost does not construct, it merely touches.
A rarefied vision, like a thought taking form and then vanishing into nothingness, where the sparse, ethereal crystals seem like tiny creatures floating through space.
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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