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  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Photography,  Street Photography

    How Privacy Hysteria Killed Street-Photography

    October 22, 2023 /

    At other times I would have dismissed this image as ‘out of focus’ and unusable. Just another missed shot caused by poor focusing technique on a fully manual film camera. Nowadays, however, I have begun to change my attitude towards these kinds of blurred images because of the privacy hysteria affecting the practice of street photography. There have been cases where people have been found guilty of harassment for covertly taking pictures in public spaces, but street photography has nothing to do with criminal behaviour. There is a huge difference between taking sneaky, random, meaningless pictures of people on the street and trying to freeze sketches of life to tell…

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    The Lost Battle

    January 11, 2014

    Frames for Sale at Via Margutta

    May 2, 2016

    Shooting a Roller Derby Bout

    November 19, 2024
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Where to?

    October 21, 2023 /

    Unlike my previous shots, this is a ‘normal’ analogue image. The film – Ferrania P30 – was not expired and the camera was fully manual – a Voigtländer Bessa R2A with a Voigtländer Nokton Classic 35 1.4.

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    The Alchoolist’s garbage

    March 5, 2013

    Portfolio

    February 24, 2014

    Helios 40-2 85/1,5 and Fuji X-T5: a sample

    June 21, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Milan,  Winter

    Technogym Milan@Night

    April 3, 2022 /

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    Where to?

    October 21, 2023

    The Hasselblad Way

    January 2, 2014

    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Late Night@Piazza San Babila

    March 9, 2022 /

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    RedLight

    November 6, 2015

    Sunny Afternoon

    January 22, 2013

    Caged?

    June 6, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  PhotoCritics,  Winter

    Evolution in Red

    November 20, 2019 /

    This is another example of how purely visual (the color red) and factual (a stroller on the far left, and an adult on the far right) elements create in the mind of the observer a semantic connection (in this case: the transition from childhood to adulthood) that does not exist in reality.

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    Having Sax

    February 6, 2015

    Justice measured as the distance between Words and Facts

    July 10, 2023

    Heater

    May 23, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    A Suspicious Stare

    October 4, 2018 /

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    Afternoon’s Mumbling

    August 27, 2013

    Americana Skating – Italian National Championship 2019

    February 4, 2019

    Rest under a tree

    May 31, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Posing at Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

    October 1, 2018 /

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    The Silent Ceremony

    November 2, 2017

    Hanging Clothes

    February 18, 2014

    Moonshot with a handheld Fuji XF150-600 and a Fuji X-T3

    April 24, 2023
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Social Control,  Winter

    The Quiet Riot

    November 19, 2017 /

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    Boat Maintenance At Genova’s Porto Antico

    July 30, 2014

    Ultras

    July 20, 2016

    From Waltham to Boston

    August 4, 2023
  • B&W,  Buildings,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Milan

    Renovating Milan

    November 18, 2017 /

    Milan, November 2017. A construction site—not the kind that demands attention, but the quiet kind that hides behind fabric and scaffolding. I took this photo walking past it for the third or fourth time. What stopped me wasn’t the building itself, but its ghost. Behind the mesh screen, the silhouette of the old façade still lingered, like a memory bleeding through fabric. Chimneys, outlines, the suggestion of windows. The city behind the curtain. At the bottom, the standard construction notice: printed bureaucracy stapled to metal, a reminder that change is always sanctioned, scheduled, structured. But the rest of the image resists clarity. Straight lines waver, verticals drift. Even the fence…

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    Shade of Berlin

    April 23, 2013

    Parking Lot

    December 8, 2013

    Surreal Judo

    December 11, 2016
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Milan

    Late Evening Break In Piazza Dante

    October 21, 2017 /

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    RedLight

    November 6, 2015

    Lost

    July 13, 2015

    The Power of Underexposing

    December 25, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Exhibitions,  Milan,  Spring

    Sala degli Onori @ Triennale di Milano

    May 19, 2017 /

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    Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop

    July 24, 2025

    Red Beam

    October 24, 2023

    The Bodyguard

    April 13, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    After a Tough Day

    January 30, 2016 /

    I  took this photo with a Fujifilm X-E2 and a Leica Elmarit 90/2,8. Manual focusing with the split-image option has been fairly easy.

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    Ceci N’Est Pas Une Pipe

    September 27, 2014

    Protected: Prova Aurum

    April 25, 2014

    A Seagull in Rome

    June 28, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Reflexes

    December 30, 2015 /

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    Pillars

    January 29, 2015

    Distraction

    February 10, 2016

    Emanuele Cavallucci. The New Italian Pro Boxing Welterweight Champion

    March 9, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Reportage,  Winter

    Labcoats

    December 28, 2015 /

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    The Sinking Giant

    December 6, 2013

    Hanging Clothes

    February 18, 2014

    5 frames exploring the Sporting Gun Culture in Italy

    April 15, 2025
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Last Puff Before the Ride

    December 26, 2015 /

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    Killing Santa

    January 25, 2013

    Bent

    April 21, 2014

    Desolation

    May 13, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Busy

    December 24, 2015 /

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    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Volley Team – Marco Caminati, Enzo Rossi

    October 29, 2015

    Stairway to Hell

    January 9, 2022

    @ Rome’s Maker Faire – 6. Lost In Texting

    November 23, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Earbuds

    December 22, 2015 /

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    A Special Dress for a Special Party

    July 6, 2016

    Stage Setting

    October 1, 2014

    In Hoc Signo

    August 20, 2015
  • Colour,  Milan,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    A (Out-of-Focus) Break Between Lunch and Supper

    December 8, 2015 /

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    The Chess Players

    October 10, 2013

    Earbuds

    December 22, 2015

    5 frames with a Kiev 60, a Volna 80/2,8 and a Ferrania Orto

    June 28, 2024
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Streets&Squares

    Ray-Ban in Milan

    October 5, 2015 /

    It’s not just about what sits on the roof—it’s about what it says without blinking. Shot in the heart of Milan, this image captures a building that has seen eras come and go, crowned by a brand that has spent decades convincing the world to look cool while blocking out the light. The lettering floats above the stone like graffiti gentrified by permanence. I framed the photo dead-on, as if to let the architecture and the logo negotiate their own contrast. The façade is neoclassical, orderly, almost too proud to wear an ad. But there it is—Ray-Ban—scribbled in neon above cornices and keystones, as defiant as it is inevitable. Black…

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    Mind The Step

    August 28, 2015

    Hope after the Storm

    January 8, 2020

    The Actor’s Nightmare

    August 3, 2013
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Milan,  People

    Shaken

    October 1, 2015 /

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    Killing Santa

    January 25, 2013

    Late for Lunch

    March 26, 2014

    The Rise of the Mutant Spiders?

    November 4, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Street Photography,  Winter

    The Street Photographer Dilemma: Film or Digital

    March 21, 2015 /

    To me Street-Photography is digital. I missed this shot because I wasn’t able to properly focus my full-manual kit, as I would have do with an average digital camera. There is no point in wasting film in an highly fault-rate activity such as Street Photography.

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    Romeo’s Hideout

    December 16, 2015

    Moonshot with a handheld Fuji XF150-600 and a Fuji X-T3

    April 24, 2023

    Damned Pidgeons…

    October 8, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Milan

    March 19, 2015 /

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    High Heels Ghost

    August 20, 2013

    National Security

    April 4, 2014

    Cleaning the Tabernacle

    November 26, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Photography,  Winter

    Dress Different

    March 15, 2015 /

    According to the fashion-photography standards this is a perfectly usable shot. To me, that’s simply a missed photo.

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    Portrait of aTocaor

    October 8, 2013

    Hanging News

    June 18, 2013

    Photopanning in Rome

    December 3, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Message Check Before Breakfast

    December 12, 2014 /

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    February 16, 2016

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    July 10, 2017

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    July 27, 2013
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