The idea of ​​photographically transcribing the tale of Pinocchio came to me by attending and photographing the Milanese puppet theater of Gianni and Cosetta Colla. It was 1982, I had to make a report on Art Decò architecture in New York, so I thought of bringing the ancient wooden puppet of the Colla family into my leather backpack, about 60 cm high, restored several times and dressed in a nice set of flowers. In New York I shared a room with my friend Francesco Meli at the then infamous Hotel Jane in the Greenwich Village neighborhood …