Case di Sardegna: le ville esclusive della Costa Smeralda

My passion is photography; photography of homes and gardens, trying to describe, in images, the stories they have to tell. Initially I decide how to build up a visual journey through the internal and external rooms. Detail and views are integral to this journey together with photographic skills and techniques. Owners and designers work in harmony at the outset of each project.

The story is different every time, from the minor anecdotes at the beginning and the time of photographic narration lasts not only from dawn to dusk, but at times extends for days. But the real story, which only those who have seen me taking photographs, is that I use special cameras I have created and built specially. They now have a definite identity; called "Free Eye", they are produced and marketed for both amateur and professional photographers.

The book should therefore be seen from a dual point of view because it expresses a composite itinerary in contemporary architecture, limited to a specific place, the Gallura region, where there have been significant experiences in modern architecture, almost unique of their kind. I have been able to work there from the very beginning, covering twenty years of habitual visiting as photographer with an increasingly close relationship!

The book also relates a very original technical experiment of mine, the "Free Eye", my invention in photography.

In 1988, following a personal intuition, thanks to the collaboration with a mechanical engineer, I developed the first prototype of the "Free Eye", in a metal alloy which is normally used in aeronautics. Now it is a real tool of work which looks like a small disc and is mounted between the lens and the body of the photographer's camera, to obtain, with outstanding simplicity and rapidity, all the optical movements necessary to correct the perspective and the falling lines of each photograph, and in particular if they are of geometric subjects.

All this is only thanks to an intuition: "just as your eye is free to move the pupil between the lids", when you use a lens you can move it freely too, rotating it in the circle of its range, over the entire image!

This apparatus may also be applied, keeping the same identical characteristics, on to professional telecameras which can now have "camera movements" until now impossible.

Evocations that give a complete meaning to the moment as experienced: there is nothing magic nor technical but the alchemy of a set of factors which are connected to one another: I have simply applied the possibilities the technological element offered me to relate to my method of expression.