In 1999, Paolo was an independent photographer in Belgium. He created a group exhibit in Brussels known as Moving Art. He was awarded first prize for Grand Prix d’auteur Couleur de France. Afterwards, he established another group exhibition in Paris entitled Around the World FFP. In 2000, Paolo established another exhibit known as Around the World in... Moreover, he published a book entitled La France du Tour. In 2001, he created another exhibit in Hasselt entitled Around the World Musée d’art Moderne and published one of his works, Tour de France, in the newspaper, Libération. In 2002, Paolo created a group exhibit in Charleroi entitled Musée de la Photographie and also created another group exhibit called Recyclart. He published a work entitled Les Classiques Journal Equipe in Vélo Magazine and also published Soccer World Cup 2002 in the newspaper Libération. Paolo created another group exhibit known as Couleur Café and had an exhibition at the Queen Galleries in Brussels for his work entitled One Billion Indians.
