I never studied photography but I always took pictures and I always loved to edit and manipulate them. I do not consider myself a photographer but a "creator of images". I'm not interested in photojournalism, nor in street or travel photography because I do not take pictures to show reality. Rather I conceive of photography like painting.
The camera is just one of the tools, with Photoshop, which allows me to create my images, whose main subject is the human being.
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