Massimiliano Tappari was born in 1967. He imagines the world like a big book to flip through, with plenty of characters and plots hidden in everyday objects and landscapes. He published Oooh! Inventario di fotografia and Coffee Break (Corraini). Among his most recent books, created with Chiara Carminati, are A fior di pelle (Nati per leggere Award 2019), Ninna No and Occhio ladro (Italian Andersen Award 2021 for Best Artist Book), Lapis editions.