I am so excited to have you here!

My name is Marco

I am an Italian (theology) professor and photographer based in Cincinnati OH.
After years of randomly posting contents on the most famous social media, I finally decided to get my stuff together and start my own website.
I want this to be a photography website. But I also want it to be a blog.
I have no idea how to do it.
So I am sure you will like it! 
Come on in!

Hi! That’s me, right there! My name is Marco and I am a Biblical Literature/languages teacher & and a photographer, born in Italy but living in the U.S. of A.

Both my work and my hobby have something to do with time.

Teaching Latin/Greek brings me back to the good old days of my High School, where my life was confined to grammar books and Mtv. I loved translating from the Bible in particular. 

That gave me the way for the Theological Formation, overall ten long years after which I finally got my Sacred Scriptures License at the “scary “Pontificio Instituto Biblico” (Scary because it was a lot of studying; but for me it was also a lot of fun!)
Three days after receiving my degree, I was on my way to Cincinnati Oh, hired as assistant professor at the Athenaeum where I currently work.

It was somewhere in the middle of my college education that I stumbled upon a website: a friend of mine was uploading on his page all the significant memories of his life, as seen through his camera.
It was love at first sight: I didn’t know how, I just totally wanted to be a photographer like him.
I had to wait. Even the cheapest camera/lens combo was way more expensive that I could have afforded, So I waited. I waited 5 years.
Until one day, in September 2014 I could finally afford my first DSLR. And what was love at first sight slowly became an obsession. And, hopefully, it’s now becoming a side-job.

My mother often says that she transmitted to me this passion for photography:  she loved to take pictures.
I don’t know.

I asked myself many, many times what pushes me to photograph so much; but  I don’t have a clear answer yet. I know it has something to do with time. Present time. Every time I am out shooting, I look for a moment that contains a whole lot in it. And I like to consider myself part of that moment. I love the feeling of being present, as life unfolds itself.
It could be a stranger walking by, a landscape, a detail. A paid portrait session for someone. It doesn’t matter, it’s precious.
Time is passing by. Eventually, it will wipe everything away.

So before it’s too late,  I am trying to fix some moments forever. I am trying to remember.

This was my life. I was there. This is what happened.
Maybe it wasn’t a lot, but for me, it meant a lot;  it meant the whole world.
And I would love to show it to you.

Are you going with me?