Shaped by the ocean
It all began with a unconditioned love for our planet, and a 1969 picture of my Grandfather.
My friends often ask, "Are you serious?" when I head out to clean the beach. While they see a chore, I see a landscape of forgotten stories. However, these stories reflect a grim reality: over 170 trillion plastic particles now choke our oceans.
Driven by a love for the planet, I’ve cleared 150kg of trash across two kilometers in just weeks, documenting the process on my YouTube channel. This mission became personal when I found a 1969 photo of my grandfather, Pietro, on this same beach. Back then, it was pristine. Today, it’s a seasonal dumping ground plagued by rising temperatures—reaching 38∘C in 2023—and constant pollution. I’m working to bring that old world back.
Shaped by the ocean
"Shaped by the Ocean" explores the impact of ocean pollution by documenting the remarkable ways nature reshapes discarded objects. Through photography, I immortalize these transformed pieces of trash before removing them from the environment, revealing a strange kind of beauty in their altered forms. These images capture the unique imprint of time and the sea.
Many are the reasons why these pieces of trash are on the beach but each piece is unique in its own way… shaped by nature over the time….
A single box of polystyrene, when it ends up in the sea and falls apart, can produce over a million microplastics, which then enter the food chains of fish and therefore also of humans.
In the last ten years, we have produced more plastic products than in the previous century.
Sooner or later, the sea gives us back everything we have throw away.
I hope these photos show just how bad things are for our oceans, but also give people hope. If we all do our part — polluting less, making greener choices, recycling right, and just caring more about the planet — we can definitely make a difference and hopefully stop this from getting worse.
