He followed, among other courses, the ones offered by Bruno Zevi, Carlo Scarpa, Luigi Veronesi, and Italo Zannier.

Influenced by neorealist film and conceptual art, in the 1970s he began investigating Italy's man-altered landscape.

Working in marginal and decayed spaces with an 8×10 large format camera, he creates dense sequences intended as meditations on the meaning of landscape, photography, and seeing.

Later he investigated the life and death of modernist architecture, with projects on Scarpa, van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.

[1] "Since then, working mostly in colour with a large-format camera, he has patiently returned to the same places – his native Romagna and the area around Venice – documenting the shift from a rural to a post-industrial landscape.