Motel Agip
The former Motel Agip, in Naples, Italy, became home for those living without stable housing. Temporary rooms turned into lasting spaces where single parents, elderly residents, precarious workers and young couples built a fragile yet vital community. Corridors and shared areas became places of encounter, where daily life unfolded through mutual support, care and adaptation. For more than twenty years, this improvised coexistence held together. In October 2025, authorities cleared the building, evicting over twenty families and abruptly breaking this network of solidarity.
Bio
I was born and live in Naples, where I grew up within a marginalized community. Having experienced social and housing insecurity firsthand, I have spent more than ten years documenting the everyday impact of poverty, crime, and institutional neglect, focusing on how these conditions shape life in the city's most invisible spaces.
Awards
PRIZE AND WORKS
2026 Finalist and exhibition at Kolga Tbilis Photo
2025 Finalist and exhibition at Kolga Tbilis Photo,
Felix Schoeller Photo award
2024 Finalist at Premio Amilcare G. Ponchielli
2024 Exhibition “ The invisible city”
at InCadaqués Photo Festival
2024 Exhibition “ The invisible city” at 36th International
Festival of Photojournalism-Visa Pour l’Image
2023
Winner Pierre & Alexandra
2023 2nd Prize BarTour Photo Award
2023 Exhibition “M-Mare, Mario, Mamma”
at Photo Is:Rael Festival
2023 Finalist at Kolga Tbilis Photo, POY,
Felix Schoeller Photo award
2022 Exhibition of the project M. Mario,
Madre, Mare at PAN Museum
Naples during the Capability
Festival
2021 In collaboration with the Spanish
Embassy for the 700th anniversary
of the death of Dante Alighieri with
the reportage "Era mio figlio"
2021 M, Mare Mario Madre book
published with Crowdbooks and
presenting during Claudio
Ciccarone transmission on TGR
2021 Contest finalist 3shoot
2020 Participated to Human Rights
Festival with M,. Mare Mario Madre
project
2018 Marco Pesaresi Prime finalist
2016 Marco Pesaresi Prime finalist
2011 Exhibition Far West at Cam Museum
of Naples
