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  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops

    Belgian Hats

    October 19, 2015 /

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    Lost in mumbling

    September 22, 2013

    Secret Beyond the Door

    October 24, 2013

    Crowd Control

    July 16, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  Winter

    Belgian Gloves

    October 15, 2015 /

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    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014

    Self-Defense

    July 27, 2013

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Wrestling, Italy vs France (And a primer on sport photography – Part 5)

    October 9, 2015
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  Seasons

    Avid Readers

    November 19, 2014 /

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    Rest On The Way Back Home

    August 30, 2013

    Alone, Together…

    June 19, 2013

    Under the Yellow Umbrella

    March 9, 2013
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People

    Blow Up

    November 13, 2014 /

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    Shin Pepper@Harajuku

    June 4, 2018

    The Godfather

    July 23, 2014

    Busy

    January 8, 2013
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People

    Fun

    November 12, 2014 /

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    Where to?

    October 21, 2023

    Ceci n’est pas un cadre

    December 29, 2013

    Trespassed

    May 3, 2015
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Visual

    Histoire d’O

    November 11, 2014 /

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    So What?

    December 7, 2013

    Sega Codemaster

    November 21, 2017

    A Modern Orpheus

    November 24, 2015
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks

    Columns

    November 10, 2014 /

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    Last Puff Before the Ride

    December 26, 2015

    A Relaxed Call

    February 12, 2014

    Light as Meaning Shifter

    December 11, 2019
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People

    Orange Scarf

    November 9, 2014 /

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    A Special Dress for a Special Party

    July 6, 2016

    Trust Us, We Care About You

    March 18, 2014

    Kudos to Ricoh

    February 8, 2013
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    The Path To Freedom

    September 29, 2014 /

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    Passage Lost

    August 9, 2014

    Street-Photographer’s eye side effect

    April 8, 2014

    The Unintended March

    January 13, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Ceci N’Est Pas Une Pipe

    September 27, 2014 /

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    Red Cross

    October 26, 2017

    Efesto’s New Production Line

    September 20, 2014

    Call On The Docks

    August 4, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Nightlife in Bruxelles

    June 27, 2014 /

    You can smell it before you hear it — the warm hum of beer, laughter, breath crystallising in the cold. This photo, taken in the backstreets of Brussels, isn’t a postcard of nightlife. It’s a sketch. Loose, fast, half in shadow. Which makes it all the more true. Cafés and pubs stack signs on top of each other like citations — Delirium, Floris Bar, Café, Pub, Garden. Every name lit, every door half-open, promising exactly what you need at this hour. But the terrace tables are empty, stacked in rows like punctuation marks between stories. It’s too cold to sit. Too late to be still. The people gather where the…

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    Seats

    September 11, 2017

    Gary O’ Toole

    July 15, 2017

    Evolution in Red

    November 20, 2019
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Social Control,  Spring

    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014 /

    Should you have some doubt, by reading the banner you can’t be mistaken.

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    Mediterranean Games 2009

    June 28, 2015

    Americana Skating – Italian National Championship 2019

    February 4, 2019

    Up from the Waterline

    December 3, 2016
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Summer

    Ni État Ni Patron

    June 8, 2014 /

    Brussels. A quiet wall, a passing car, and a message that’s louder than both. The slogan is old—older than the paint used to scrawl it—Ni État Ni Patron. No state, no boss. A phrase that echoes from factories, barricades, pamphlets. And now, here it is again, on a half-covered stretch of rendered concrete. It wasn’t written to decorate. It was written to remain. The graffiti stands out not just for what it says, but for where it says it: in the middle of a freshly patched rectangle, painted over what was clearly another message before it. The wall becomes a palimpsest—layers of resistance, erasure, and return. Below it, a car…

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    Harley-Davidson

    December 24, 2018

    Nad Sylvan

    July 10, 2017

    A Standup Paddleboarder

    August 25, 2014
  • 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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    Leo Gullotta – Bartleby lo scrivano@Teatro Marrucino

    March 15, 2022

    The Day of the Zombies

    October 23, 2016

    Small Talk

    February 10, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Spring

    Whatever You Stand For, Vote!

    May 24, 2014 /

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    Every Single Day

    June 28, 2017

    Brain vs Camera

    April 19, 2014

    Spumante (Italian Champagne) ready to fuel the party

    May 29, 2013
  • Airport,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Travels

    Guru Meditation

    May 12, 2014 /

    In modern times, tablet-enhanced meditation is the way.

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    Burnt

    November 12, 2021

    A Bookstore in the Gallery

    December 22, 2013

    Ceci N’Est Pas Une Pipe

    September 27, 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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    When Colour Helps Composition

    February 7, 2020

    A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s

    February 4, 2016

    Caged?

    June 6, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Belgian Ghosts

    May 2, 2014 /

    Midnight still has to come. But in Bruxelles even ghosts wake up early…

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    Too Late

    April 10, 2015

    Nice Drink

    July 11, 2015

    A Fishnet – 1

    October 28, 2014
  • 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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    Money Doesn’t Smell

    April 2, 2015

    A Standup Paddleboarder

    August 25, 2014

    Moon, hand-held

    April 30, 2021
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Spring

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014 /

    Not staged. Swear to God!

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    二千円

    December 20, 2023

    Shooting Sanda (Chinese Kickboxing) Bouts

    June 26, 2025

    Waiting for the goal

    April 28, 2013
  • 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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    A Couch in the Yard

    November 18, 2013

    Comarketing

    October 10, 2019

    The Gate to the Appeal

    October 10, 2021
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    Traffic Jam in Bruxelles

    April 7, 2014 /

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    Toxic Waste in Open Air

    August 31, 2021

    Up from the Waterline

    December 3, 2016

    Stadio Olimpico, seen from Tribuna Monte Mario

    October 1, 2022
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Perfect Strangers

    April 5, 2014 /

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    The Power of Underexposing

    December 25, 2019

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

    April 24, 2023

    Dress Different

    March 15, 2015
  • 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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    No, You Don’t Need To Change Your Glasses

    June 14, 2014

    The Stare of a T800

    August 4, 2015

    Don’t Forget!

    March 27, 2013
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