She has been involved in photography since the late Seventies, she carried out her artistic research together with a passion for historical issues, heritage of her university years.
It was one of the founding members of Fotostudio, the first Florentine gallery dedicated exclusively to photography (1981).
From 1985 to 1995 she lived Milan where she worked as a picture editor for important publishing houses and joined Cesare Colombo in the realization of numerous photographic exhibitions. In those years she began her teaching activity as a professor of history of photography at the R.Bauer Professional Training Center and the European Institute of Design.
In 1995 she returned to Florence where she began to collaborate with the Studio Marangoni Foundation as a professor of history of photography on a permanent basis. From 1995 to 1998 she was a full time collaborator of the Fratelli Alinari Museum of the History of Photography on the cataloguing project of the company’s photographic heritage.
She also writes about photography. Together with Italo Zannier he has published the La fotografia in archivio (Sansoni / RCS Libri, 2000) and, with Bononia University Press in 2011, she published Il corpo in posa.
As a professor of history of photography she worked at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna and Palermo and at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence. As a photography teacher she worked at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence. She is currently a contract professor at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Palermo.
As a photographer, for many years she has collaborated with Unicoop Firenze and Teatro della Pergola. For UNIDO/United Nations Agency, in 2017, she documented the marble supply chain in Palestine and the architectural and cultural heritage of the Palestinian cities. She published her artistic research in the volumes Appartenenze (Art &, 1998,), Assoluto Naturale (Arti Grafiche Friulane, 2005), Diventa fiume (Polistampa, 2017), Sant’Orsola. Fotografie da un monastero (Crowdbooks, 2019).
