Hi, I am Simone “Guerrino” Aprile. To many, on the streets and behind the lens, I am simply Guerrino.

I carry this name as an inheritance: it was the nickname linked to the history of my great-grandfather Giovanni Dorcich, a photographer in Pisa and the surrounding areas. Photography, for me, was never a casual choice; it is a family obsession, a way of existing in the world rooted in reportage and portraiture. From a young age, skating, surfing, and a visceral attraction to street and Chicano culture shaped my aesthetics, alongside a love for rap and funk music, airbrushing, and painting. Then, life brought everything to a halt. A debilitating chronic pain on my left side wore me down for sixteen years before finding a working therapy, forcing me to leave the board behind, but never my hunger for art. The scars of bullying and marginalization endured during my school years, instead of closing me off, carved a deep empathy within me and an absolute respect for every human being, no matter who they are.

Peru was the first real turning point: among the smiles and warmth of the locals, my vision grew richer, changed, and SFE silently began to take shape. But the definitive turning point, the one that wiped the slate clean and rewrote every coordinate, happened in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

There, I ended up on the streets. I lost everything. I had to survive from scratch, with no pain medication because the little I scraped together was strictly for water and food. I clung to my camera as my only resource. I shot surfers and took portraits of passersby along Las Canteras, asking only for a free donation or trading a photo for a shower or a meal. It is truly brutal out there. Yet, in that void, I was hit by a tsunami of humanity from those who had nothing: a piece of cardboard to keep me off the concrete, bread and salami just to get through the day.

Out of that visceral need to cling to the light while everything was collapsing, the definitive soul of Senza Fissa Esposizione was born. The street stripped me of everything and taught me the truth: that photography is not a commercial product, but a primary currency of human exchange, a means of survival and pure connection.

Today, SFE is the live logbook of this vision in motion. Out of that same urgency for survival, I rebuilt my digital toolkit: I use photography, video, graphic, and web design not as cold corporate services, but as tools to give shape and voice to stories that deserve to be told raw and real.

SFE is not an agency, it has no fixed coordinates, and it has no safety nets. It is a continuous journey through contexts and people, a living archive funded solely by light and honest exchange. If you cross my path, you can hire my vision or trade a piece of reality.