Teaching

Courses in Italian academies of fine arts, invited lectures and seminars, and programme direction. Course titles are given in their official Italian form. Faculty pages: Perugia · Catania.

Academies of Fine Arts

• from 2025/26Tecniche e applicazioni digitali per la fotografia · Accademia di Belle Arti, Catania
  100 hours, 8 CFA · adjunct lecturer
• from 2025/26Fotografia · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  75 hours, 8 CFA · adjunct lecturer
• from 2024/25Fondamenti di informatica · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  34 hours, 4 CFA · adjunct lecturer
• from 2024/25Elaborazione digitale dell’immagine · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  125 hours, 10 CFA · adjunct lecturer
• 2024/25Fotografia – laboratorio di fotografia · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  50 hours, 2 CFA · adjunct lecturer
  second semester
• 2024/25Fotografia, orientation course · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  15 hours · adjunct lecturer
• 2023/24Computer Graphic · Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia
  75 hours · adjunct lecturer

Lectures and seminars

• 2024–2026Un luogo bello, book presentations · nineteen venues across Italy
  among them Cortona On The Move, MIA Photo Fair, Fotografia Europea, Photolux Festival, New Old Camera, Officine Fotografiche — the full list is on the book’s page
• 13 June 2025Un luogo bello e il senso della fotografia di paesaggio · AIDIA
  module within the conference La Calabria di chi resta, di chi parte, di chi torna. RigenerazAzione di luoghi. Teorie e pratiche di rEsistenza
• 3 June 2025Photobook design · Accademia di Belle Arti, Catanzaro
  invited seminar, within the presentation of a photography festival
• 17 December 2024La rappresentazione del paesaggio urbano · Ordine degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori, Milan
  within the programme Fotografia di architettura e paesaggio urbano: la percezione dello spazio tra tecnica e visione
• 26 August 2023What should I look at · Grenze Arsenali Fotografici, Verona
• 16 June 2023Il libro fotografico e la fotografia di paesaggio · Fondazione Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria
  within the seminar Rigenerazione urbana, un modo nuovo di pensare alla città, with Alberto Ziparo and Alessandro Bianchi; on the project Un paesaggio di colore arancio
• 23 May 2023Book design and storytelling · EcoSuites, Tristinika Beach, Greece
• 9 February 2023Book design and storytelling · Columbia College Chicago, USA
• 23 May 2022Stampa fine art, una breve guida operativa, online seminar · Tau Visual, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi Professionisti
• 27 April 2021L’uso della fotografia sui social network · Lo Stretto Digitale, online
• 20 February 2020Creazione di sequenze e storytelling · Accademia di Belle Arti, Reggio Calabria
• 6 May 2019Creazione di sequenze e storytelling, online seminar · Tau Visual, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi Professionisti
• 29 April 2019Storytelling e fotografia di matrimonio, online seminar · Tau Visual, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi Professionisti
• 16 November 2018Seminario sul paesaggio · Università Mediterranea, Degree Course in Architecture, Reggio Calabria
  within the cycle Territori, architetture, città. Riflessioni dall’età antica all’età moderna
• September 2018Sul paesaggio · Festival Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto
• 25 June 2018Si fa presto a dire bianco e nero · Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria
• 14 March 2017Fotografare il paesaggio, due casi studio · Il cerchio dell’immagine for MiBACT
  for the first national Landscape Day
• 2016Storytelling e reportage · Leica Camera Italia and Tau Visual, Naples
• 29 June 2014Storytelling e reportage · Corigliano Calabro Fotografia

Courses, workshops and programme direction

• 2014 – presentPost-production workshops · Corigliano Calabro Fotografia
• 2022–2023Online photography courses, foundation and advanced · MUSA Fotografia, Monza
• Oct. 2022Photography workshop for young people, Ragazzi MedFest, 5th edition · SpazioTeatro, Reggio Calabria
  smartphone photography, portrait and visual diary · Centro Diurno Collina del Sole, Gallico
• 2021–2023Photography, within a digital marketing programme · Lo Stretto Digitale Academy, Messina
• Aug.–Dec. 2020Photography and printing · Cine Sud, Catanzaro
• Feb. 2020 – Apr. 2021Visual Design Manager (UX Designer), regional qualification programme, Calabria Region · Co.Me.S., Reggio Calabria
• Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2020EIZO Color Academy: colour management, fine art printing, storytelling · EIZO Italia
• 2016–2021Leica Akademie, workshops and seminars · Leica Camera Italia
• 2015–2018Director and lecturer, School of Specialisation in Professional Photography · Il cerchio dell’immagine, Reggio Calabria
  landscape photography, computing for photographers, workflow, advanced post-production, fine art printing
• 2013–2015Photography and post-production, workshops and seminars at events across Italy · Fujifilm Italia
• 2010–2019Lecturer, foundation to advanced courses · Corsobasedifotografia.it
• Feb.–Apr. 2009Editing and Compositing Video, national PON programme · I.T.I.S. “A. Panella”, Reggio Calabria
  50 hours
• Feb.–Jun. 2008Building and maintaining websites · E.S.E.F.S., Ente Scuola Edile Formazione e Sicurezza, Reggio Calabria
• Feb.–Jun. 2008ECDL programme, national PON F1 · I.C. Statale Gallina, Reggio Calabria
• Sep.–Oct. 2006Stage photography · Accademia d’Arte Drammatica della Calabria, Palmi

On teaching

I teach photography and digital imaging at the Academies of Fine Arts in Perugia and Catania. What I try to do in a course is not to point the way, but to make sure each student finds their own.

In practice this means working by projects. Each student starts from a question of their own and carries it to a finished form — a sequence, a print, a dummy, a small exhibition. Technique comes in when the project asks for it: colour management, printing, file workflow, even the basics of computing are taught as tools of a body of work, not as subjects in themselves. Individual tutorials alternate with group critiques, because learning to read someone else’s work is the quickest way to see one’s own.

The method has a history. From 2010 to 2019 I directed Corsobasedifotografia.it, a network of foundation courses in eighteen venues across Italy, built on a shared method and taught by a team of instructors I trained and coordinated; from 2015 to 2018 I directed a three-year school of professional photography in Reggio Calabria. I have taught for Leica Akademie, EIZO Color Academy and Fujifilm, and lectured on book design and storytelling at Columbia College Chicago.

Part of the teaching lives outside the classroom: two short manuals, Piccolo manuale teorico-pratico di fotografia di paesaggio and Riflessioni in ordine sparso sulla fotografia, open video lessons, and online courses on Udemy that my students can take free of charge. They exist so that students can return to things at their own pace, and so that what happens in a course does not end with it.