Born in 1950 in Salento, he has lived and worked in Milan since 1973.
He began exhibiting in the early 1970s and to date his works have been presented in public and private exhibition spaces in Italy and abroad and are part of important collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Cinisello Balsamo, the CSAC in Parma, the Alinari Collection in Florence, Nicoletta Rusconi Arte Contemporanea, and Fabio Castelli Collection. He gives lectures and workshops on various aspects of photographic languages in addition to pursuing his research work and artistic production. His critical-journalistic experience is also important, collaborating since the 1980s with many trade magazines and other art and culture publications.
He has had a well-established teaching experience and from 1995 to 2017 taught the course "Phenomenology of Styles" at the European Institute of Design in Milan; from this teaching practice stems the volume Photography. Fundamentals of Language, History, Style, published in 2010 by Edizioni Favia (Bari).
Between 1987 and 1997, he participated in the publishing project on architectural and environmental heritage Archivio dello Spazio of the Province of Milan and in the Visual Sociology project Photometropolis at the Faculty of Sociology, Milano Bicocca University.
From 2003 to 2009 he was a leading exponent of the Galleria Fotografia Italiana Arte Contemporanea in Milan, for which he became editor-in-chief of the quarterly publication "Pagine di Fotografia Italiana."
In 2014 he published Fotografia araba fenice (Edizioni Quinlan, Bologna) and in 2020 BuonaDomenica#. Appunti di un fotografo, perplesso, nel gran circo del mondo.
From 2019 to 2021 he directs the six-monthly magazine "FC - Fotografia e [è] Cultura," founded together with Giovanni Gastel.