He runs the independent publishing house Rorhof and teaches photography at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the University of Bolzano and inside the prison of Bolzano. After completing his studies in Chinese at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, he moved to Hong Kong for work and later to Beijing to resume his studies at Capital Normal University. He interned at Magnum Photos in Paris for six months and was awarded a 2008/09 Fabrica fellowship, Benetton’s communication research centre in Treviso.