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  • Barcelona,  Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Las Ramblas’ Lifestyle

    April 18, 2014 /

    Who cares about pickpockets?

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    Hell Behind — Tiny Holes Reveal the Flames

    March 19, 2013

    RedLight

    November 6, 2015

    Let’s get the party started…

    January 20, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Reasonable Privacy Expectation

    April 17, 2014 /

    There is something almost cinematic about this frame. The architecture dominates: a vast façade of marble and glass, its verticality emphasised by the tall, narrow windows, the symmetry broken only by the two small human figures at the bottom. They are dwarfed by the structure, physically and visually, and yet they animate the space just enough to draw our eye away from the grand design and towards the everyday. Compositionally, the image is measured and deliberate. The camera is held level, avoiding converging verticals, which is crucial in architectural photography. The placement of the figures — one ascending the stairs, the other absorbed in a phone — adds a natural,…

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    On Photography and Self-Delusion

    September 4, 2022

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014

    A Little Of Thailand In Rome

    August 3, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Which One?

    April 16, 2014 /

    The Abundance’s Paradox

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    Histoire d’O

    November 11, 2014

    The Driver

    August 8, 2015

    Avvocati. A New Book

    October 11, 2015
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Spring,  Street Markets

    A Fujifilm X-E1 Annoyance

    April 15, 2014 /

    The X-E1 is a good camera, though has some annoyances that make it less handy for Street Photography. Contrary to Leica, (some) Zeiss or (some) Nikon lenses, zone-focusing is not set on the lens barrel. You must do it either through the viewfinder or the LCD, and this makes problematic the switch from one technique to another. Same is true for aperture settings. Operating the camera one-handed, happened twice to me, led to a change of the image quality settings from RAW to Jpg. Unfortunately I wasn’t aware while shooting and I’ve wasted half a day in Barcelona getting inferior quality pictures.

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

    June 21, 2023

    Forgotten

    October 15, 2013

    A Red Floating Crate

    February 15, 2014
  • Airport,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Same Seats, Different Lifes

    April 14, 2014 /

    They’re close, but never been so distant

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    John De Leo’s Grande Abarasse Orchestra – Live

    February 10, 2015

    Ni

    January 26, 2014

    Leica Shop @ Strada Maggiore

    May 11, 2017
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    The Bodyguard in Red

    April 13, 2014 /

    This frame happened in a square full of motion, but all I saw was this frozen pair: a woman checking a map, and her dog—a small, white, overdressed sentinel—standing squarely on duty. What amused me wasn’t just the dog’s outfit (hood up, leash taut, plaid trim), but the posture. Alert. Angled. Watching the flow of pedestrians like a security detail in fur. I made this image with the intention of isolating a moment within the broader current of urban transit. The pedestrian stream moves left to right—fast, disengaged, anonymous. Meanwhile, the woman and her dog form a perpendicular axis. They’re static. They interrupt the flow. That tension is what holds…

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    Paths of Life

    January 20, 2013

    Under the Yellow Umbrella

    March 9, 2013

    Skating on Avenue Louise

    April 1, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Too Busy to Enjoy the Life…

    April 12, 2014 /

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    Knocking on lion’s door

    April 22, 2013

    VueScan and the missed Bits-per-pixel

    December 1, 2013

    Hope after the Storm

    January 8, 2020
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Flashes’ Forgotten Powersuits

    April 11, 2014 /

    When I pressed the shutter, I wasn’t chasing irony. It emerged later, in the edit, when I realised this looked less like a street photo and more like a comic panel stripped of its ink—The Flash and Kid Flash mid-sprint, anonymous in civvies, caught in a blur between timelines, rushing to fix a multiverse misstep but forgetting the suits that gave them identity. The angle was deliberate. I tilted the frame to exaggerate imbalance, to underline the diagonal force of movement surging left to right. The grand stairway of Milano Centrale—the actual location—becomes a stage. Lines, shadows, steps: they all stretch and funnel speed. The architecture is static but theatrically…

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    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014

    5 (improbable) Frames with a roll of Ferrania Orto and a Nikon 35TI

    February 28, 2024

    Side by Side, Ready to Ride

    July 21, 2015
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People,  Winter

    Quality Check. Try Before You Buy

    April 10, 2014 /

    This image was taken outside a Parisian bookstore, a moment as classic as it is current: a man stands in the entrance, thumbing through a photobook, absorbed but casual. It’s not staged—he didn’t even glance at the camera. He was too focused, as anyone who’s spent hours weighing the purchase of one more photography book will understand. His expression wasn’t about doubt; it was about judgment—quality check, plain and simple. The composition offered itself. Framed by the bookstore’s open door, the man becomes the central figure in a visual funnel, surrounded by vertical stacks of books, postcards, and prints. The image flattens space into layered density—foreground filled with titles, background…

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    Barbarians At the Beach

    August 30, 2021

    Leo Gullotta – Bartleby lo scrivano@Teatro Marrucino

    March 15, 2022

    An Exercise in Composition (was: Rowing Boats)

    February 18, 2024
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Social Control

    Mario Asks for it!

    April 9, 2014 /

    The political campaign for the European election is started. This is one of the posters showing the Democratic Party (PD) strategy: fooling the voters into thinking that PD cares about what its constituencies have to say…

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    Reflexes

    December 30, 2015

    A Bad Experiment

    August 26, 2016

    The Street Photographer Dilemma: Film or Digital

    March 21, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Street Photography

    Street-Photographer’s eye side effect

    April 8, 2014 /

    Seeing the world through the Street-Photographer’s eye makes you more aware of your surroundings both at a conscious and unconscious, Zen-like, level. A side-effect of this state is that you can exploit-it for personal safety when traveling in risky places, like big stations where pickpockets are doing their tricks.

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    How Nissan Crossing Has Changed Over Time

    December 1, 2025

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013

    Small Talk in Las Ramblas

    June 4, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    Traffic Jam in Bruxelles

    April 7, 2014 /

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    Trial Docks Waiting for the Justice to Come

    April 21, 2015

    A Skater

    February 23, 2021

    The Hasselblad Way

    January 2, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People

    Parisian’s Bags

    April 6, 2014 /

    On a brisk afternoon in Paris, the pavements fill with people moving at slightly different speeds, each carrying the traces of their own direction. What drew me to the scene was the convergence of three figures—unrelated to each other yet momentarily aligned—walking toward me with distinct rhythms and expressions. Their presence formed a kind of spontaneous procession, defined not by ceremony but by the simple momentum of city life. The woman on the left moved with purpose, her large green bag swinging in counterbalance to her stride. The scarf softened the sharp lines of her businesslike outfit, adding a touch of looseness to an otherwise structured silhouette. The woman on…

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    Very British

    October 29, 2016

    A Street-Skater on the Waterfront

    March 17, 2021

    Lava Nails

    February 28, 2021
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Perfect Strangers

    April 5, 2014 /

    This was shot at a crossing in Brussels. Late afternoon, golden hour starting to lean into haze, and the kind of sidelight that makes the most mundane street scenes feel sculptural. I wasn’t looking for a story—I was just following the light. What I got instead was this: two people, frozen in proximity, framed by urban geometry and indifferent routine. They didn’t know each other. That much was clear. No shared glances, no body language suggesting connection. Just two people waiting for the light to change, locked in that brief, suspended moment before movement resumes. But visually, they worked in tandem—her neon green jacket, his mustard ochre coat, both cutting…

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    Zebra Crossing in Oslo… With Red Light

    October 12, 2014

    Who is the mannequin?

    April 11, 2013

    Aficionados

    August 5, 2013
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Visual,  Winter

    National Security

    April 4, 2014 /

    A danger for the National Security? This picture is nothing special, but for the fact that while I was taking it a security guard at the European Parliament tried to stop me on the “National Security” excuse, by claiming that photos were not allowed. Minding the lesson of “Stand your ground” I countered politely the requests of the guard, by telling him: – First: shooting in public spaces is perfectly legal, – Second: there where no “no-photos allowed” signs, – Third: “I am a lawyer and a journalist. I checked both EU and Belgian Law and find nothing that could prevent me to do what I am doing. Could you…

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    Pensive, On the Way Home

    November 28, 2014

    Red Fan

    June 14, 2022

    Avid Readers

    November 19, 2014
  • Daily photo

    Protected: Mr. and Mrs. Fabiotritapepe

    April 3, 2014 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    Photopanning in Rome

    December 3, 2019

    60×40 Borderless Printing with a HP Z3200ps 24

    May 11, 2014

    An Early Morning Fishing Expedition

    July 29, 2014
  • Bridges,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring

    A Roller Coaster… A Kind Of

    April 3, 2014 /

    It’s not a ride. But it feels like one. Shot with an ultra-wide lens, this pedestrian bridge bends and twists like it’s unsure whether it’s architecture or attraction. The metal curves upward, forward, out of the frame—pulling your eye (and your balance) with it. Perspective doesn’t just stretch here—it spirals. Geometry gets theatrical. At the top of the climb, a small group walks calmly, as if unaware they’re part of the illusion. No one is rushing. One wears yellow, another carries a bag—ordinary people on a not-so-ordinary structure. The Adriatic glints below, a boat docked quietly at the base. It could be a coastal scene from anywhere in Italy, but…

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    Up Where the World Unfolds

    November 16, 2013

    A pouch for the Fuji XF 150-600

    May 16, 2023

    Waiting for the Shinkansen – 2

    June 30, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Lamp

    April 2, 2014 /

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    Shooting Italian 5 birilli

    May 18, 2025

    Planetarium

    May 30, 2015

    Emanuele Cavallucci. The New Italian Pro Boxing Welterweight Champion

    March 9, 2019
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Skating on Avenue Louise

    April 1, 2014 /

      The architecture of Avenue Louise is built to impress — symmetrical, imposing, wrapped in glass and concrete. It speaks the language of power, efficiency, and institutional gravitas. Yet here, cutting across the uniformity of its grid, a lone skateboarder defies gravity and symmetry alike. In mid-air, suspended between takeoff and landing, the young skater rewrites the function of space. This plaza wasn’t designed for movement like his — spontaneous, raw, unruly — yet it hosts it with unexpected grace. The stark concrete façade becomes a backdrop, not a boundary. This is the city as canvas, the act of skating as resistance and reinterpretation. While others walk briskly from meeting…

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    Man in Trenchcoat

    November 20, 2021

    Splinter

    March 13, 2021

    A Taxi Night Fleet At Oslo’s Central Station

    September 26, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Milan,  Winter

    Hanging Heart at via Olmetto

    March 31, 2014 /

    Taken in Milan, this photograph is built around a single point of chromatic and emotional focus — a small, glossy red heart suspended from the centre of an ornate iron grille. The restrained colour palette of the stone façade and dark metalwork works to its advantage, ensuring the heart becomes a magnetic anchor for the viewer’s gaze. The pattern of the wrought iron, a chain of interlocking circles bisected by vertical bars, lends the image symmetry and rhythm, subtly broken by the heart’s irregular organic shape. The composition is tightly framed, allowing no distraction from the relationship between object and setting. The verticals of the grille are aligned with precision,…

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    A Pensive Nun

    December 14, 2016

    Lost Cellos

    August 30, 2014

    LP – Live@Anfiteatro La Civitella

    July 22, 2022
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Milan,  Winter

    A

    March 30, 2014 /

    Some photographs are built on complexity — overlapping narratives, layered subjects, visual chaos distilled into coherence. This one is built on the opposite: a single, dominant letter and the deliberate restraint of elements. The capital “A” scrawled across the double wooden doors becomes both subject and statement. Whether an anarchist mark, an initial, or just a passing act of vandalism, it punctuates the otherwise rigid, formal architecture. The geometry of the building — rectangular panels, horizontal mouldings, the granite base — forms a rigid grid, and into this grid the bicycle is quietly inserted, its own triangles and curves breaking the dominance of the rectangles without challenging their order. Technically,…

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    Crowd Control

    July 16, 2013

    Different Stories

    December 30, 2023

    Leaving

    September 27, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Spring

    Hanging Towels

    March 29, 2014 /

    This is what happens when coupling a summicron 50 (third gen) with a Fujifilm X-1.

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    Norwegian Suits

    October 15, 2014

    Poetry Still Survives

    June 7, 2014

    A Ryanair Aircraft

    August 21, 2018
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Winter

    Off-Duty Eurocrats in Bruxelles

    March 28, 2014 /

    Late afternoon outside the European Parliament is a curious time. The intensity of the day’s debates, meetings, and bureaucratic rituals evaporates into the chill air, leaving behind something more recognisably human. I caught this scene as the sun was sinking, the light flattening into that pale, slightly diffused wash Brussels often wears in winter. I framed the shot to emphasise the contrast between the rigid geometry of the architecture and the small figure of the man stepping into the foreground. The curved glass façade on the right dominates, its repeating elements pulling the eye deeper into the image. The building almost seems to lean forward, pressing its presence into the…

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    The Porter

    July 3, 2015

    Which Part of “No Smoking” Got You Lost?

    June 21, 2015

    An Early Morning Fishing Expedition

    July 29, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  Spring,  Street Photography

    Tour Saint-Jacques, Standby

    March 27, 2014 /

    Paris, the city of light, reflects off the polished chrome helmets of the sapeurs-pompiers. The firemen stand poised, immobile but ready. Their posture does not betray fatigue, nor doubt—it’s the stance of trained patience, of focused anticipation. This image captures a moment between action and calm. The fire hoses lie coiled with potential energy, valves shut, mechanisms still untouched. Behind them, the urban rhythm carries on: buses glide, pedestrians move, the sirens wait. The presence of the firefighters, framed by the bustle of Haussmannian façades and traffic, signals that something mighthave happened—or almost did. The mirrored helmets become metaphors themselves. They do not just shield: they reflect the world around them. Their function is…

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    A lighter

    February 14, 2013

    Late Night Conversation at Cardinal’s Wharf

    September 29, 2016

    Nightlife

    June 20, 2013
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