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  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Tokyo

    Tsutaya Bookstore@Ginza

    December 6, 2020 /

    Photographed inside the Tsutaya Bookstore in Ginza, Tokyo, this image celebrates the bookstore as a curated stage, where books are not simply stored but presented as artefacts. The frame is dense yet controlled, offering layer upon layer of shelves, display tables, and oversized art books. The eye is immediately drawn to the centre, where a large black-and-white wildlife photograph dominates—its scale and high contrast making it the de facto anchor of the composition. CompositionThe photographer has worked with a classic layered approach. Foreground tables angle toward the viewer, drawing them deeper into the mid-ground where the hero book sits open, and then further into the background shelves which fill the…

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    An Essay on Composition

    February 14, 2021

    Inside the Nazario Sauro

    August 10, 2014

    A Portrait on the Nasdaq Building

    January 18, 2014
  • Actors,  Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Reportage,  Winter

    Il barbiere di Siviglia – Don Bartolo mad at Rosina

    November 28, 2020 /

    A shot from the mise en scene of the Il Barbiere di Siviglia I did as a scene-photgrapher for the Teatro Marrucino

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    An Altar for the Propaganda Machine

    November 17, 2013

    Shooting Italian 5 birilli

    May 18, 2025

    Whithin The Cage

    October 22, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Exhibitions

    Inside the Nazario Sauro

    November 26, 2020 /

    An important piece of history of the Italian Navy, at the anchor in the Port of Genova.

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    Merleria Livia

    February 14, 2015

    Portrait of an Heavy Metal Singer

    November 21, 2013

    Ready for lunch

    September 2, 2014
  • Bridges,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Urban Landscape

    Another Bridge

    September 23, 2019 /

    I shot this with a fisheye precisely to bend reality into something less familiar. The structure itself—a pedestrian bridge of steel and cable—already has a certain grace, but the distortion turns it into a sweeping arc that almost feels like it’s about to close in on itself. The cables draw the eye to the centre, while the graffiti below pulls it back to street level, grounding the image in the here and now. The day was heavy with cloud, the light diffused and slightly cold. That worked to my advantage: no harsh shadows to compete with the strong geometric lines, and just enough tonal variation in the sky to give…

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    A Lamppost

    November 26, 2014

    Walking at Night, in Milan

    September 30, 2013

    Early Morning Shaving on The Beach

    August 6, 2013
  • Bridges,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer,  Urban Landscape,  WideAngle

    A Bridge

    September 22, 2019 /

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    Masters of Propaganda

    July 18, 2023

    Leaving The Actor’s Studio

    January 14, 2014

    Stinky Shoes

    June 3, 2015
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Exhibitions,  Nagoya,  Summer

    Old Rolls, Immortal Style

    August 12, 2019 /

    When I stepped into the Toyota Museum in Nagoya I wasn’t there to chase a vintage V12 roar – I was after a photograph that could make the steel of those hatchbacks sing. I set the camera, took a breath, and aimed at the gleaming 2000‑series Corolla perched beneath that cathedral‑like skylight. The result is a picture that feels like a high‑octane sprint through a showroom, but let’s not pretend it’s flawless; let’s break it down the way a proper car reviewer would.

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    Running On The (Oslo’s) Docks

    September 28, 2014

    Three Shadows

    November 11, 2016

    Sala degli Onori @ Triennale di Milano

    May 19, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Nagoya,  People

    A Street Dancer In Sakae

    August 9, 2019 /

    The figure cuts across the frame in mid-motion, blurred by the long exposure into a streak of speed and rhythm. What might have been a simple step in the street becomes here a dance, arms and legs stretched in dynamic diagonals. The city’s lights smear into horizontal bands, a stage built of glass and neon for a fleeting performance. Composition thrives on movement. The dancer is placed almost centrally but leans into the right side of the frame, suggesting continuation beyond what we see. The motion blur is not a flaw but the subject itself: it transforms a person into gesture, a body into energy. Behind, the fractured colours of…

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    Argument on the Range

    November 7, 2016

    Stripes of Light and Decay

    March 2, 2015

    Inside the Palaces of Power – Bruxelles

    November 8, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Nagoya,  People

    Tough Enough

    August 7, 2019 /

    I took this photograph on a busy crossing, stopping behind a man whose style caught my attention immediately. His shaved head, chain accessories, and heavy branding on both shirt and jeans projected a deliberate identity—part biker, part urban cowboy, part street performance. The clothing itself, emblazoned with wings, stars, and slogans, seemed designed to announce toughness before a word was spoken. From a compositional standpoint, I chose to shoot from behind, letting the graphics on his clothes dominate the frame. This perspective makes the man more symbol than portrait, reducing him to a surface of imagery and text. The striped pedestrian crossing beneath his feet adds a rhythm of lines…

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    How Privacy Hysteria Killed Street-Photography

    October 22, 2023

    Crowd Control

    July 16, 2013

    Hanging Towels

    March 29, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Exhibitions,  Nagoya,  People,  Summer

    Who Is The Machine?

    August 5, 2019 /

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    What’s the Time?

    October 8, 2019

    Fisherman’s Fatigues

    December 19, 2022

    Las Ramblas’ Lifestyle

    April 18, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Exhibitions,  Nagoya,  People,  Summer

    Mandatory Photo Position

    August 3, 2019 /

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    Why a Longterm Relationship (with your camera) Makes You Feel Good

    March 26, 2025

    Luck is an Attitude

    January 25, 2014

    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Nagoya,  Parks,  People,  Seasons,  Summer

    Street Magic@Nagoya Castle

    July 21, 2019 /

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    Ghosts

    October 19, 2016

    The Coach

    December 9, 2018

    Garbage As Usual – Pantheon’s Nearby

    October 4, 2019
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Nagoya,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Seasons,  Summer

    Fast Food Loneliness in Nagoya…

    July 17, 2019 /

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    Skating at Palais de Tokyo

    June 11, 2015

    A Mesh

    February 16, 2021

    Open Window

    February 4, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Street Photography,  Summer

    In the Rain, A Helping Hand

    July 10, 2019 /

    The rain hit fast and hard. Streets turned to rivers in minutes. I was sheltering under a bus stop roof, camera still strapped around my shoulder, when I saw the man go down. Not dramatically—just a slow, heavy fall as he misjudged the kerb under the surge of water. Then came the officer. No hesitation. No fuss. Just a clean, instinctive move to lift him. The Leica didn’t leave my eye. I shot quickly—no time to compose in a traditional sense, but sometimes the moment doesn’t wait for your geometry. The turquoise pole on the left anchors the frame almost by accident. The crossing lines in the background help balance…

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    Staged?

    February 16, 2016

    The Glassmaster

    September 4, 2017

    The Nightmare

    August 23, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fighters,  Fighting Disciplines,  People,  Sport,  Spring

    Mid-Knee Clinch

    July 7, 2019 /

    This frame caught the clinch mid-knee, elbows locked, muscles in tension, balance tipping. I didn’t fire in burst—timing was deliberate. The image had to hold the convergence of force and geometry: shin to torso, fists to neck, backs arched into compression. Shot ringside at f/2.8 with a fast telephoto, ISO pushed to 3200 under dim sodium-halide lights softened by overhead mesh. Shutter at 1/640s, just enough to freeze impact without killing the tension in the stance. Noise control was adequate. Detail retained in skin texture and compression shorts without artificial smoothing. Lighting was patchy but consistent enough to avoid burnouts. Composition obeys containment. The cage creates the visual boundary, but…

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    Afternoon’s Mumbling

    August 27, 2013

    Modern Times

    January 6, 2013

    True Leather (Saved by Photoshop’s Crop)

    January 18, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Collision Path

    July 5, 2019 /

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    Orange Scarf

    November 9, 2014

    Fast Drivers in Via del Tritone

    October 31, 2019

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fighters,  Fighting Disciplines,  People,  Spring

    TKO

    May 8, 2019 /

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    Isolation in Public Spaces

    November 10, 2023

    Snorkeling

    August 24, 2014

    Distraction

    April 6, 2016
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Spring,  Visual

    A view of the Bologna’s Station

    April 28, 2019 /

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    Leaving The Actor’s Studio

    January 14, 2014

    A Fisherman

    December 25, 2014

    Siamese Boats On the Seine River

    June 1, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Luggages

    April 20, 2019 /

    I framed the beagle as one more item in the window: tagged by its harness, parked on the threshold, reflected like stock behind glass. The suitcases promise mobility. The dog, still and compliant, reads as another container to be handled, stored, and retrieved. That is the tension I wanted. Composition puts the animal slightly off-centre, level with the lowest display plinth so the eye equates subject and object. The reflection completes the conceit, doubling the dog the way duplicate models line a shelf. The pavement line anchors the scene, while the stacked cases build a grid that the body neatly occupies. Exposure is restrained to keep detail through glass and…

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    Drying Clothes

    March 9, 2021

    Planetarium

    May 30, 2015

    A (Tokyo) Taxi Driver

    June 17, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fighters,  Fighting Disciplines,  People,  Sport,  Spring

    Emanuele Cavallucci. The New Italian Pro Boxing Welterweight Champion

    March 9, 2019 /

    Boxing is cruel to photographers. Not because it’s fast — although it is — but because it’s chaotic. In the ring, there’s no neatly choreographed movement, no second takes. You’ve got sweat flying, ropes cutting through your composition, referees wandering into frame, and the perpetual risk of being exactly half a second too late. This shot came together with the Nikon D610 paired to the Nikkor 24–120mm f/4 — a workhorse lens that, while not the fastest in maximum aperture, offers just the right flexibility for ringside work. Here, I caught the moment Cristofori’s jab lands flush on his opponent’s cheek, the head snapping back, muscles taut with the torque…

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    Ghosts of Ginza

    November 14, 2023

    Landscape

    December 21, 2012

    Lunchtime

    February 18, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Fighters,  Fighting Disciplines,  People,  Portraits,  Sport,  Spring

    Portrait of a Professional Pugilist. Davide De Lellis

    March 8, 2019 /

    He had the kind of face that told its own story long before a shutter ever clicked — a mix of focus, fatigue, and that guarded reserve I’ve often seen in fighters before a bout. Photographing a professional pugilist isn’t about glorifying the violence of the sport, but about catching that fleeting moment where discipline, experience, and vulnerability intersect. I chose a tight composition, keeping the frame uncluttered so the viewer’s attention rested on the expression and posture. Every crease in the skin, every glint of sweat, mattered; these details carried more weight than any background could. Depth of field was shallow enough to isolate him from distraction, but not…

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    The Violinist

    July 1, 2015

    A Splash of Colour

    November 13, 2013

    The Bystander

    February 5, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Skating,  Sport,  Winter

    Italian National Skating Championship 2019

    February 8, 2019 /

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    Piero Mazzocchetti – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio

    May 12, 2022

    Play It Again, Sam!

    April 13, 2017

    A kiss in the shade

    March 17, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Skating,  Winter

    Americana Skating – Italian National Championship 2019

    February 4, 2019 /

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    While the kids grow-up…

    July 25, 2013

    On Detachment. Or ‘If You Love Something, Set It Free’ (cit. Sting)

    June 17, 2025

    After Heat, Structure

    November 12, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Thoughts,  Winter

    Wasted Shot Because iPhone 7 Poor Low-Light Handling

    January 22, 2019 /

    There’s a certain frustration in watching a scene unfold that you know deserves better than the tool in your hands can give it. This was one of those moments. The Adige was shrouded in mist, the bridge arches glowing faintly from warm streetlights, the water reflecting pinpricks of gold — a scene so atmospheric it almost photographed itself. Almost. The iPhone 7 Plus, for all its merit in good daylight, simply doesn’t hold up when the light falls away. The sensor struggles, the noise reduction turns painterly, and dynamic range collapses into a murky smear. What was meant to be a layered play of mist, water, and stone turned into…

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    The Oslo Opera House

    October 24, 2014

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013

    Turiddu repeals Santuzza

    November 19, 2022
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Lines,  People,  Winter

    The First Picture of the Year

    January 5, 2019 /

    The year opens with a frame caught mid-step — a street scene suspended between the casual and the cinematic. The woman in the leopard-print coat commands the foreground, her figure sharply rendered against the soft haze of the street beyond. Her presence is decisive, yet she faces away, offering no expression, only movement. The background melts into a gentle blur, two figures walking arm in arm becoming silhouettes of intimacy. The shallow depth of field works well here: the compression between crisp foreground and ghosted distance draws the viewer through the frame, making the eye travel naturally from the coat’s texture to the vanishing point of the street. Technically, the…

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    Superpila still rides…

    December 10, 2018

    John De Leo’s Grande Abarasse Orchestra – Live

    February 10, 2015

    What Could I Do?

    April 18, 2016
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