Dear Diary

Dear Diary is a reinterpretation of a personal diary: public, visual and participatory. It stems from the need to bring private intimacy into the urban space and to raise awareness around human relationships and connections. I chose the streets of Milan, Rome, Florence and Acquaviva delle Fonti as open pages, where I could leave fragments of my memory: photographs of everyday objects and simple thoughts that speak of love, care and absence. I posted them as billboards so they could be encountered by chance, unfiltered, by anyone passing by.

For me, the city is an open-air gallery, a democratic space where fragility becomes collective. Each image, each sentence is an invitation to pause for a moment, to recognize a familiar emotion, to reconnect with that sense of tenderness we often forget.

In a time that celebrates appearance and rewards surface, I prefer to gather what remains.
Dear Diary was born this way spontaneously, out of a quiet urgency: to hold onto what passes, to give shape to what I feel. But above all, there is the need to stop time in order to read it again later.

Dear Diary is a project that moves through the real world through streets, walls, neighborhoods. It tells life as it is, not as it should appear. Without filters, without noise.

Each image carries a small personal story, yet it is meant to be read by anyone even those who do not know me, but can recognize themselves in it. I photograph what remains when everything else fades away: a gesture, a glance, a forgotten object, a sentence written on a post-it, left like an embrace.

Milan, 2025