Between September 2022 and May 2023, while staying in numerous monasteries in Northern and Central Italy, I created the work entitled In Silentio et In Spe Erit Fortitudo Vestra. Viaggio nell’esoterismo della Chiesa Cattolica, published by Snap Collective Paris.

With this reportage, on the one hand, I wanted to allow everyone to pass through the gates of realities generally considered separate from the world, almost hermit-like, such as monastic communities appear at first glance, and on the other, drawing heavily on the knowledge in the esoteric sphere matured over many years of study, I set myself the task of lifting the veil that shrouds Christian rituality, bringing to light, through the use of the photographic medium, the existence of profound and often ignored meanings not only in the symbols proper to Christianity, but also and above all in the ritual component.

The work consists of three parts. The first dedicated to an analysis of the places where monastic and cloistered communities live. The second aimed at an in-depth analysis of the work activities they carried out. The third, finally, dedicated to the purely ritual and esoteric component. With reference to the last part, with the photographs that compose it I have set myself the objective of placing before the viewer's eyes a crescendo progression of rituality, from the preparation of the religious of the various orders, to the lighting of the Witness, to the chants, up to the orderly exit from the Temple and the final sprinkling before Compline and the beginning of the Great Silence.

To celebrate the relics of Saint Charles Borromeo, in May 2022 the Zaccharis publishing house published the volume “Splendor Sanctitatis. Memorie e reliquie borromaiche a San Barnaba in Milano”.

The work, the presentation of which was given by Monsignor Navoni (canon of Milan Cathedral and the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, as well as vice-president of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana) and the preface of which was written by H.E.R. Monsignor Mario Enrico Delpini, Archbishop of Milan, contains a photographic documentation I made of the Borromean relics kept in San Barnaba in Milan.

To celebrate the naming of the renovated reading room in the library of the Zaccaria Institute after St Charles Borromeo and the canonical recognition of the numerous relics of the saint that the Barnabites have kept in the convent of St Barnabas for over 400 years, I was commissioned to create a photographic project on the most famous member of the Borromeo family.

The exhibition, inaugurated on Thursday 4 November 2021 in the presence of S.E.R. Mons. Mario Enrico Delpini, Archbishop of Milan, was accompanied by a book, the preface of which was written by Prof. Ferruccio Resta, Rector of the Milan Polytechnic.

It is also possible to purchase a limited edition of 50 copies of the aforementioned book accompanied by a fine print of the photograph "Mano Benedicente" made on Hahnemühle Museum Etching® paper, 350gr/m2, 100% cotton fibre, produced with Epson UltraChrome K3 pigmented inks. The photograph is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

I produced a photographic reportage, commissioned by the University of Milan-Bicocca, to describe the resumption of academic life following the disruption of daily life caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. 53 heterogeneous voices of a community that, through different sensitivities and points of view, recompose a unified narrative of measures, services and opportunities for students, faculty, staff and citizens with which the University of Milano-Bicocca has been activated to face the "historic" challenge imposed by the Covid-19 health emergency and the restrictions adopted to cope with it. A choral reconstruction documenting the period from the first warning signs in February 2020 to the outbreak of the pandemic and the adoption of the lockdown up to phase 2.

"Il nostro lavoro - La nostra libertà" is a small book that tells the story of the protests that have agitated the squares of Milan in the last months of 2020 in the face of the restrictions that are exhausting every economic sector. A story in images through which to give a voice to those who have no voice today.

The reportage contained in these pages, shot entirely on film, sets out to narrate through images the evolution of a health crisis, that of Covid-19, unprecedented in modern history, capable of shaking the world we know from its foundations and calling into question political and economic balances that until a few days before seemed carved in stone and immutable. "Milan at the time of the Coronavirus. A cathedral in the desert" is divided into seven chapters, seven like the days that changed the face of this city. The first sign of this change came on what was supposed to be a Sunday in February like so many others, when an indefinite number of people literally stormed the city's supermarkets and looted its departments. In this context, photography has the fundamental task of giving concrete testimony to events of exceptional historical importance. Alessandro Giugni, author of the photographs in this volume, provides a detailed account of the surreal atmosphere in Milan during these days of extraordinary difficulty.