There was this baroque balcony with a captivating white dove on it,” he says. My mother’s family is from Palermo, and I used to spend all my summers there.

“I was in Sicily, in a town called Erice.

“I still remember the first photograph I ever shot,” Piro is proud to share. Often they would be things that tend to be overlooked,” he explains. “My camera gave me a way to arrest and capture the beauty I saw with my eyes. “My camera gave me a way to arrest and capture the beauty I saw with my eyes”With an insatiable desire to dive deeper into the scenes that surrounded him, he turned to photography as a tool to understand and enhance the intricacy of his world. I was profoundly intrigued by its continuous changes and its potential to reveal and alter shapes,” Piro shares. “As a child, light has always been the one thing that fascinated me the most. Ever since he can remember, his eye gravitated towards light. “Growing up in Tuscany, I have always had a connection with nature, and contemplated the mutability of its colors as well as its spontaneous yet complex compositional harmony,” he says. Piro had always been a keen learner, observing and studying the world around him, deeply enchanted by the splendor of nature.

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