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 Look at her. She is not posing – she is discovering. Her hands rise, unprompted, to the tiara; in a room full of voices, she alone is silent, meeting the bride she is about to become. This is the photograph an Italian wedding magazine chose to print, with a caption worth translating: ‘Princesses in dreams and in life.’ I have spent my career waiting for perfect, unguarded moments like this one – many years ago, it was I who introduced the concept of wedding photojournalism to Italy. Unposed wedding reportage existed in isolated cases, but no one had yet formulated its precise theory – with parameters to stay within, or step outside of, knowingly. Since then my language has evolved, flowing into ‘narrative photography’: not single photographs – capturing moments is not enough – but coordinated sequences. A story. Before photography, there was early music: fourteen years on the concert stage, the first concert at sixteen, recorder, wind instruments, cello, violone, keyboards. When ...