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  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    A Jazz-Manouche Guitar Player

    August 17, 2014 /

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    High Heels Ghost

    August 20, 2013

    Nightlife in Bruxelles

    June 27, 2014

    Portrait of a Politician – 2

    June 15, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People

    Wet Socks

    July 19, 2014 /

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    The Prisoner’s View from the Sospiri’s Bridge

    September 25, 2017

    Vasa’s Ghost

    July 11, 2016

    The Flame is Still Burning…

    June 23, 2018
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Summer,  WideAngle

    Bent

    July 13, 2014 /

    Shot with a Nikon F3 and a 16mm fisheye, this isn’t your typical curved-sky, skateboard-in-midair kind of photo. Instead of pushing the distortion to the front of the image, I let it sneak in at the edges—just enough to bend the rules. The subject is ordinary: a coastal bridge, a pedestrian path, the usual lampposts lining a curve. But the lens pulls the whole scene inward, gives it weight and sweep, turns a flat space into something that stretches, leans, folds in on itself. I like using fisheye glass this way—not as a gimmick, not for laughs, but to see how geometry shifts when you force perspective without centring it.…

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    Urban Desolation

    September 18, 2014

    Secret Beyond the Door

    October 24, 2013

    My camera’s early test shots

    December 20, 2012
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Portrait of a Perinatal Cardiologist

    July 11, 2014 /

    Salvatore Gerboni, MD, is an expert perinatal cardiologist and a great human being.

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    Every Single Day

    June 28, 2017

    The Heart Of Giulietta

    October 30, 2014

    Happy New Year

    January 1, 2017
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  People

    Out For Justice

    June 21, 2014 /

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    Trick or Treat?

    June 14, 2013

    A Cello’s Player

    February 8, 2015

    Nagasaki Biker

    February 13, 2024
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014 /

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    The Score Keeper

    April 25, 2019

    The Skeptical Listener

    May 26, 2014

    It’s always the right time

    February 17, 2013
  • B&W,  Bookstores,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Poetry Still Survives

    June 7, 2014 /

    Blessed be the city, where somebody can earn his day, by selling poetry.

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    Italy, Street-Photography and the Law

    October 29, 2013

    Switch

    December 18, 2014

    Los Niños y El Tocaor

    October 30, 2017
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Past&Relics

    Cupido’s Fall

    June 2, 2014 /

    There was a time when Cupido ruled the world. Not the cherubic archer of myth, but the man on the torn poster — a champion accordionist, his name blazing in dotted capitals, promising music and spectacle. Now, the paper curls at the edges, bleached and scarred by weather, the glory half-erased by time and graffiti. The god of love meets the fate of every earthly name: reduced to a fading print on a damp wall, fighting a losing battle against rust, mould, and the next layer of urban scribble. The photograph works because it understands the poetry of decay. The black-and-white treatment is an apt choice — stripping the scene…

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    Disagreement

    December 29, 2012

    Nightlife

    June 20, 2013

    Out for a While

    September 26, 2013
  • B&W,  Barcelona,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Spring

    The Teleferic de Montjiuc

    May 28, 2014 /

    Towering the Barcelona’s Marina

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    Paths of Life

    January 20, 2013

    A Lockheed C-130 Hercules

    January 31, 2021

    Before The Match

    October 20, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Visual

    Time Runs Fast

    May 21, 2014 /

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    Mulberry Street, When Benito II Was Still There…

    July 7, 2014

    Accidental Precision

    February 12, 2016

    Just A Bird

    July 1, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  Summer

    The Hamlet’s Dilemma

    May 20, 2014 /

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    The BatFire

    April 29, 2016

    A Sailors’ Warehouse

    September 9, 2014

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Between Two Sets

    May 15, 2014 /

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    A Bridge

    September 22, 2019

    A Sunny day in Rome

    May 10, 2014

    The Angel Maker

    February 25, 2014
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Buildings,  Daily photo,  Spring

    An Unplausable Perspective

    May 6, 2014 /

    There is something odd in this photo, isnt’it?

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    Chasing the Runner

    October 6, 2013

    A priest

    October 19, 2019

    Which Part of “No Smoking” Got You Lost?

    June 21, 2015
  • B&W

    Protected: Black&White

    May 4, 2014 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    Negrita’s Cover Band

    September 19, 2013

    What lasts of a springtime hailstorm

    June 22, 2013

    A party that shall never come

    May 9, 2013
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  Visual

    The Eye

    April 25, 2014 /

    Another example of the constant brain’s meaning quest in the things the eye sees. It wasn’t supposed to look back. This is the underside of a building’s curved overhang, a detail most people would never glance up to see. Shot from the ground in perfect alignment, it becomes something else entirely: an iris of steel and shadow, a lens with no glass, watching the world below. I titled it The Eye not just for the shape, but for the feeling. The symmetry is strict—deliberate, almost mechanical—yet the reflection in the polished granite softens it, turning precision into something poetic. A full circle emerges where there’s only a half. What’s solid becomes imagined.…

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    Collision Path

    July 5, 2019

    The Power of Underexposing

    December 25, 2019

    A Bitter Sweet

    March 23, 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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    Head-Dresser

    February 11, 2013

    Piero Mazzocchetti – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio

    May 12, 2022

    Shooting Italian 5 birilli

    May 18, 2025
  • 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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    The Relentless Lawyer

    February 6, 2017

    Taking-Off

    April 15, 2021

    Run Like Hell, Pinocchio!

    February 24, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Shadows&Lights

    March 7, 2014 /

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    The Expired Film Series – Episode 1 – Kodak BW400CN – Dec. 2014 shot in June 2023

    July 21, 2023

    Pentax SMC-A 50/1,7 – Nikkor 50/1,4 – Summicron 50/2

    February 9, 2021

    Game Over

    April 15, 2022
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Visual

    A Silohuette on the Bridge

    March 3, 2014 /

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    A quiet watchdog or long-time friend who enjoys some rest??

    May 23, 2013

    Beach Party

    January 22, 2022

    A Shooter

    December 8, 2017
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  Rome,  Winter

    An Inside Irongate

    February 26, 2014 /

    Inside and old building, in the heart of Rome.

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    @Rome Maker Faire – 3. Stare Of The Mechanical Man

    October 13, 2014

    The Crew’s Rest

    July 20, 2014

    Just A Phone Call – 1

    February 18, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Visual

    Pipeline

    February 13, 2014 /

    While walking past this building, I noticed how the conduit layout on the wall resembled a kind of industrial score—lines and pauses, rhythms and patterns. Not an installation, not a sculpture, just a highly structured solution to a very practical problem. The moment I saw it, I knew the camera had to do nothing more than document with precision. The photograph is as straightforward as its subject. I shot it head-on to avoid distortion, aligning the sensor with the wall surface as squarely as possible. The frame is divided into two visual planes—the dense column of vertical and diagonal pipes on the left, and the open, linear turns on the…

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    Splinter

    March 13, 2021

    Kite Surfer Under Duress

    January 29, 2021

    An Exercise in Composition (was: Rowing Boats)

    February 18, 2024
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Small Talk

    February 10, 2014 /

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    Columns

    November 10, 2014

    Portrait of a Judo Master

    November 14, 2013

    The Argument

    December 27, 2012
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People

    Hard Worker

    February 9, 2014 /

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    A Mini At The Garage

    June 16, 2013

    A Fountain

    May 17, 2014

    The Hasselblad Way

    January 2, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Urban Landscape,  Winter

    Just a soccer field… Part 3

    February 5, 2014 /

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    Street-Photographer’s eye side effect

    April 8, 2014

    A Portrait on the Nasdaq Building

    January 18, 2014

    A true friend

    March 29, 2013
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