The project was born in 2009, I thought of a work that talked about the human race, a project against racism and the League's slogans.

A research and reflection on the use and meaning of non-EU citizens.

Who is the non-EU citizen?

He who has a nationality outside the European community ...

I start the project, I look for non-EU citizens, I meet Canadians, Norwegians, Peruvians, but then I understand that my project cannot remain bound to the word Non-EU citizen, it must expand into the concept of the human race.

And so the challenge: to find in Tuscany, a representative of every country in the world.

I was and am tired of hearing the League's racist slogans praising differences and racial struggles. I started interviewing the immigrants I met and photographing them,

their faces and their hands. They were incredible, beautiful encounters, which presented me with another Italy, that of encounter and dialogue, that of coexistence and civilization. Hence the choice to include many Italians, those from the Italy of the meeting.

The project was taken for an advertising campaign by Eurolegno, a large company in northern Italy that deals with wood, for a particular project conceived by Professor Emanuela Zilio, My Floor, a franchise of wooden floors from all over the world. My images were used inside these stores that wanted to reproduce the atmosphere of the countries of origin of the wood, through my images but also through perfumes and music.

My images have been used in the stores of Alessandria, Milan, Genoa, Turin and in some locations in Belgium and Germany.