I was born and raised in the United States (for the most part), but spent most of my summers as a child in Italy, specifically the island of Sicily, which is where my family is from. In the summer of ’03, my family decided to permanently move back to their hometown in Sicily, a small town just outside the city of Palermo, and that same year I moved to Rome in order to continue my studies. I can openly say that moving to Rome was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. Surrounded by baroque architecture and famous works of art I had merely read about in textbooks, I immediately fell in love with Rome. This was also the period in which I acquired a great new passion in life, a passion for photography. I would spend hours at a time exploring my new surroundings taking hundreds of photos of this beautiful mix of ancient and modern that makes Rome unique. I began meeting people from every corner of the globe and throughout the years traveled throughout the rest of Italy and various other European countries.