PORTFOLIO

A selection of documentary, portrait and landscape photographs from around the world.

 

LIMITED EDITION MONOGRAPH

As the first-place winner of the Eyeshot Open Call 2024, I was awarded an editorial contract with Eyeshot, resulting in the publication of my first photobook. It features a hundred images from my long-term project Breath of Modernity.

 

AWARDS

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♦   1ST PLACE SERIES AT EYESHOT OPEN CALL 2024

THEME : DOCUMENTARY

SERIES : “BREATH OF MODERNITY”

 

♦   1ST PRIZE AT 500PX

GLOBAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

THEME : Documentary (February 2024)

 

♦   2ND PRIZE AT IPA 2025

THEME : EVENT / TRADITIONS & CULTURES (PROFESSIONAL)

SERIES : “QOYLLUR RIT’I FESTIVAL”

 

♦   2ND PRIZE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : NIGHT LIFE (JANUARY 2024)

JUDGE : LAURYN HILL (Photo Editor at Wired Magazine)

 

♦   2ND PRIZE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : COLOR (OCTOBER 2023)

JUDGE : DJENEBA ADUAYOM (Time, Vanity Fair, The New York Times…)

 

♦   3RD PRIZE AT ALL ABOUT PHOTO

THEME : SHAPES (JULY 2026)

SERIES : “FIRST LANGUAGE”

 

♦   3RD PRIZE AT THE INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHER

THEME : TRAVEL (JULY-AUGUST 2022)

JUDGE : STEVE MC CURRY (Magnum Photographer)

♦   WINNING IMAGE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : PLANET EARTH (AUGUST 2023)

JUDGE : AMI VITALE (National Geographic Photojournalist)

♦   FINALIST AT THE INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHER

THEME : COLOR (JUNE 2022) & TRAVEL (AUGUST 2024)

JUDGES : ALESSIA GLAVIANO & JODY MCDONALD

♦   REMARKABLE ARTWORK AT SIENA AWARDS

THEME : JOURNEYS & ADVENTURES (SEPTEMBER 2023)

 

♦   COMMENDED IN THE 2022 “TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARDS”.

SHORTLISTED IN THE PORTFOLIO : “CULTURES”

 

♦   WINNING IMAGE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : OPEN CALL (AUGUST 2022)

JUDGE : DILYS NG (Senior Photo Editor at TIME)

 

♦   WINNING IMAGE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : COLOR (MARCH 2024)

JUDGE : THOMAS JACKSON

 

♦   WINNING IMAGE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : YOUTH (MAY 2025)

JUDGE : SMITA SHARMA (Acclaimed Photojournalist)

 

♦  WINNING IMAGE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : NIGHT LIFE (JANUARY 2023)

JUDGE : REBECCA MORSE (Curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

 

♦  WINNING IMAGE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : PLANET EARTH (JULY 2024)

JUDGE : MELISSA FARLOW (Pulitzer Prize-winning and National Geographic photographer)

♦  SPECIAL MENTION IN THE 2022 “TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARDS”.

SHORTLISTED IN THE CATEGORY : “CULTURES”

♦  WINNING IMAGE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : PLANET EARTH (JULY 2026)

JUDGE : MYRTILLE DELAMARCHE (Editor in Chief at GEO Magazine)

♦  SPECIAL MENTION IN THE 2023 “TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARDS”.

SHORTLISTED IN THE CATEGORY : “VISUAL STORIES”

♦   WINNING IMAGE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : FOUR SEASONS (FEBRUARY 2025)

JUDGE : ALEX SNYDER (Senior Photo Editor at The Nature Conservancy)

 

♦  WINNING IMAGE AT LIFE FRAMER

THEME : COLORS (MAY 2026)

JUDGE : JIMMY MARBLE

 

♦   FINALIST AT THE INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHER

THEME : LANDSCAPE (NOVEMBER 2023)

JUDGE : JIM RICHARDSON (National Geographic Photographer)

 

♦   FINALIST AT THE INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHER

THEME : EMERGING TALENT (MARCH 2022)

JUDGE : CAROLINE HUNTER (Picture Editor for The Guardian Weekend Magazine)

 

♦   FINALIST AT THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

THEME : INTIMATE LANDSCAPE (2023)

PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 3 BOOK

 

♦  EDITOR’S PICKS AT LIFE FRAMER 

THEME : COLOR (MARCH 2023)
ANIMAL KINGDOM (FEBRUARY 2025)
PORTRAIT (MAY 2026)

 

♦   FINALIST IN THE 2023 “TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARDS”.

15 IMAGES SHORTLISTED IN THE CATEGORIES : “VISUAL STORIES” ; “PEOPLE & CULTURES” ; “A QUIETER LIFFE” ; “LEISURE & ADVENTURE”

 

♦   FINALIST IN THE 2021 “TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARDS”.

SHORTLISTED IN THE PORTFOLIO : “LANDSCAPES AND ADVENTURE”

 

♦   FINALIST IN THE 2020 “TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARDS”.

SHORTLISTED IN THE PORTFOLIO : “PEOPLE OF THE WORLD”

 

♦  500px WEBSITE TAKEOVER WINNER 

THEME : CAMERAS ON (JUNE 2022)

 

♦  500px

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