Born in Catania on January 1982, I became both defence and photography enthusiast at seventeen, when one of my photos was published on Aeronautica & Difesa, an Italian aviation monthly.

At first, my mainly aim was to have a record but early I began to discover the amazing world of photography and, after the high school, I travelled much to find the good light.

But, as all other hobbies, I needed money to maintain it and than, during my university holidays, I started a journalism experience writing some articles about the most interesting European air shows.

From these most common activities to the real world of journalism, the step was quite easy and on 2004 I attended my first exercises, called Dogfish and Ioniex.

Since than I visited most part of Europe, plus Croatia, Cabo Verde, Bahrain and United States, writing thousands of words and on 2007 I gained both the Italian press card and a degree in Political Science.

On the same year, I attended a Master in Marketing and Communication and on 2008 I won the second award in a competition organized by the Italian Navy for thesis about naval subjects, with a thesis about the Italian Navy debate upon Mahan naval theory from 1894 to 2007.

During my photojournalist career I attended over twenty NATO and Italian exercises flying fifteen types of aircrafts and boarding tens of warships, included five aircraft carriers.

From 2002 I wrote over sixty articles on Italian and foreign magazines and up to 160 articles on web magazines (for more details see the publications page).

Right now I’m editor of Defence Agency, Warships IFR correspondent from Italy and contributor of: Raids Italia, Aerei, Rivista Aeronautica, Volare and Recensito.