Danilo Susi is a doctor by profession and president of the Association of Italian Photographer-medics. He began his career as a self-taught photographer, spending time with masters of photography such as Moder and Simoncelli in Pescara and the artists at the Rondinini Gallery of Rome. In Aquilastratta he brings together the etymology of the name of the city of L’Aquila (from the Latin aqua), with concepts of realism and abstractionism in the artist’s work.