Paola discovered photography and started falling in love with it while attending the Istituto Statale d’Arte di Galatina. She later decided to specialize with a course held at the Istituto Europeo di Design, in Rome, where she had esteemed photographers as teachers. She then attended, still in Rome, a course on photo-journalism and started collaborating with the photography agencies Azimut and Rembrandt. She currently lives and works in Bologna.