Born in Milan in 1937.
In 1957, he starts working as a free-lancer for different newspapers and weekly magazines such as Milano Sera, La Notte, Il Mondo, Settimo giorno, Paris Match. In 1964, he joined Epoca, then directed by Nando Sampietro, where he remained until 1997, when the weekly closed. Until 2002 he worked in Panorama. In 1973, the University of Photojournalism of Columbia awarded him "The World Understanding Award" for a coverage made in China. Among the many books published, these are worthy of mention: Venezia muore (1970), Il Duomo avvelenato (1972), Il Teatro alla Scala (1978), Luce Mare (1981), CinaCinaCina (with preface by Deng Xiao Ping, 1986), Firenze 1966 Il diluvio dell’ira e del miracolo  (The deluge of anger and the miracle) with texts by Guido Gerosa and Daniela Palazzoli, 1991, Ticino. Ticino. Il fiume azzurro (2005), Giorgio Lotti. Storie di fotografia (2018).
In the seventies the city of Venice awarded him a prize by for his reportages on the Serenissima. In 1994, he received the prestigious literary prize "Città di Modena". In 1995 Sicof, edited by Lanfranco Colombo, awarded him the "Horus Sicof" for his role in Italian photography.
His images are exhibited in several American museums, in Tokyo and Beijing, at the Royal Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Cabinet des Estampes in Paris, the Study Centre of the University of Parma, the Galleria Civica in Modena.
He has had a life-long devotion to photographic research in the field of colour and art.