In 2010 he was awarded a scholarship funded by the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan in collaboration with LDPF2010 (Lucca digital photo festival). On the occasion of the 9th Portfolio of Ariosto – SONY award in Castelnovo di Garfagnana (Lucca) he received the third prize and published his project entitled “Trasformazioni, il tempo sospeso” (Transformations, suspended time) in the specialist magazine Gente di fotografia.