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  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  OutOfFocus

    London Swash

    September 3, 2014 /

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    Argument on the Range

    November 7, 2016

    A Great Marketing Stunt

    May 27, 2014

    The Waiting

    December 23, 2012
  • Barcelona,  Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Waiting For The Bus On Las Ramblas

    August 19, 2014 /

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    Bored

    March 7, 2013

    Caparezza – Live@Palamaggetti Roseto degli Abruzzi

    February 18, 2018

    When Tilted Photos Work

    December 18, 2019
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Tattoos in Barcelona

    August 18, 2014 /

    The sunlight was sharp, bouncing off stone and glass, cutting strong highlights across shoulders and pavement. I didn’t ask them to slow down or acknowledge me; I simply kept pace for a few steps, paying attention to posture, rhythm, and the way bodies occupy shared space.

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    The Financial Times at Night

    October 1, 2016

    A Sad Afternoon

    October 7, 2013

    Beach in black

    January 5, 2013
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  New York,  Spring

    Santino’s Photo& Video at Broadway

    August 7, 2014 /

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    Freeze!

    December 19, 2014

    The Stroller

    July 7, 2015

    Kite Surfing, Again

    February 19, 2017
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Photo Journalism,  Photography,  Rome,  Street Photography,  Thoughts

    The Street Photographer Rights In Italy. The Leaflet

    July 10, 2014 /

    Here is an easy-to-carry A4 leaflet to be used in case you are confronted by a law enforcement agent of officer that question your Street Photography activity. Legal issues apart, please remember to always be polite and to help the officer not to look goofy or ignorant (as he actually would) in front of the public. Q. Does taking people’s photography in public spaces infringes sec. 615 bis of the criminal code? A. NO. Under the Corte di cassazione ruling n. 47165/2010 outdoor there is no reasonable privacy expectation, as there is no reasonable privacy expectation in case of tacit – while non equivocal – withdrawal of this right, as…

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    Abstract

    May 9, 2023

    Rectangles

    March 12, 2015

    Hurry up and shut down the $%&? call!

    March 1, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  New York,  Spring,  Streets&Squares

    Just Another Times Square View

    July 9, 2014 /

    I made this photograph in 2000, standing in Times Square with a Canon film camera loaded with Portra 160. It was a different city then—louder in some ways, rougher at the edges, less polished than the LED-saturated spectacle it would later become. What interested me was not the chaos itself, but the uneasy coexistence between permanence and transience: stone and steel on one side, light and commerce on the other. The composition is deliberately vertical, almost architectural. The frame stacks elements upward rather than outward: the dense mass of midtown buildings rises on the left, while the illuminated billboards dominate the right. The Budweiser sign acts as a visual anchor,…

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    Ready For Lunch

    November 1, 2014

    How Nissan Crossing Has Changed Over Time

    December 1, 2025

    A Quiet Evening

    June 26, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  New York,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  Travels

    Mulberry Street, When Benito II Was Still There…

    July 7, 2014 /

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    A Young Sailor in Open Sea

    August 11, 2014

    Trust Us, We Care About You

    March 18, 2014

    Once A God

    July 15, 2014
  • Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  New York,  Spring

    Arriba El Mexico!

    July 3, 2014 /

    I took this photograph from the passenger seat of a cab, during that suspended moment when traffic stalls and the city becomes a collage of reflections and colour. The small felt figure hanging from the mirror caught my attention first—bright, slightly absurd, and placed without irony. The tiny sombrero, the stitched flag, the green felt body: a souvenir turned mascot, living in the blurred space between décor and identity. What interested me was how this small object commanded the frame. The background—city lights, signage, fragments of buildings—exists only as colour fields and soft shapes. The mirror picks up hints of the driver, the interior, and the street behind us, but…

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    Action shot

    January 7, 2013

    Inside an Old Gym

    February 16, 2015

    The Soul Of Politics

    July 17, 2014
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  New York

    A Zeppelin in The New York Sky

    July 2, 2014 /

    New York, 2000. I remember looking up from the crowded streets and seeing it — a zeppelin, drifting slowly above the jagged canyon of Midtown’s architecture. In that moment, it felt like something out of a different century had quietly slipped into ours. I didn’t have much time to think; I just framed, focused, and released the shutter. The composition is as much about absence as it is about presence. The airship is small, almost swallowed by the negative space of the sky, yet the buildings act as monumental bookends, forcing the eye toward the centre. The turquoise cast of the glass facade on the left and the warm brick…

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    When Venus Meets the Moon

    October 2, 2023

    Three of a Kind

    July 6, 2013

    Vasa’s Ghost

    July 11, 2016
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Street Markets

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 2

    June 28, 2014 /

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    The Cameraman

    July 17, 2013

    A Little Of Thailand In Rome

    August 3, 2013

    Alex Britti – Live@Cinema teatro Massimo – Pescara

    April 3, 2016
  • 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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    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013

    Why Writing About Photography Matters (or: The Importance of Re-inventing the Wheel)

    April 9, 2026

    Trento, After Dark

    June 23, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Street Markets

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014 /

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    Leaving Home

    December 5, 2014

    Bad Luck at Heian Jingu Shrine

    December 15, 2025

    The BatFire

    April 29, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Spring,  Street Markets

    Though Choice

    June 23, 2014 /

    It doesn’t take much to make your day happy.

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    Out-of-Focus Once Again

    February 28, 2015

    Three Sprouts

    May 22, 2022

    Who Is The Machine?

    August 5, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014 /

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    Writer Inspiration’s Tools

    April 17, 2015

    The Stroller

    July 7, 2015

    Is This Photo Illegal?

    March 20, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Street Markets

    Square Three

    June 20, 2014 /

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    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014

    The Violinist

    July 1, 2015

    Hi-Tech Temptation

    June 27, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014 /

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    The Silent Geometry of a Trabocco

    December 22, 2022

    Three Shots in Franco Summa’s Studio

    August 19, 2026

    An Antique Shop in via Cadorna

    December 10, 2023
  • Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Square Two

    June 18, 2014 /

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    An Exercise in Composition (was: Rowing Boats)

    February 18, 2024

    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013

    Trial Docks Waiting for the Justice to Come

    April 21, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Square One

    June 17, 2014 /

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    Shin Pepper@Harajuku

    June 4, 2018

    The Ghost

    February 15, 2013

    An Athlete@Stadio Marmi, Rome

    October 11, 2018
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares

    Now You See It…Street Juggler at a Red Light in Barcelona

    June 16, 2014 /

    Caught this just as the traffic paused. The juggler—or maybe illusionist—stepped onto the zebra crossing like it was a stage, pulling a contact juggling sphere from his pocket with the same ease most reach for a cigarette. No microphone, no music, no hat on the ground. Just confidence, and a tight, silent routine aimed at no one and everyone. I shot from slightly above, which flattened the scene into layers: the motorcyclist on the left, the car breaking the frame in front, and the performer, suspended mid-gesture. The composition benefits from the crosswalk marks, which slice the image horizontally and echo the performer’s stance. It’s geometry meeting theatre. Technically, this…

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    Mir-20 20mm 3.5 on a Pentax K1-II – A Field Test

    January 18, 2025

    Spumante (Italian Champagne) ready to fuel the party

    May 29, 2013

    Ceci N’Est Pas Une Pipe

    September 27, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus,  Paris,  People,  Spring,  Visual

    No, You Don’t Need To Change Your Glasses

    June 14, 2014 /

    This was intentional. No missed autofocus, no technical glitch. I set the lens manually, focused nowhere, and waited for someone to walk into the blur. He did—carrying two bright yellow bags, dressed sharply but casually, perfectly unremarkable in the sharp world we expect from street photography. The concept was simple: remove clarity and see what remains. What I found was structure. Colour. Gait. Gesture. A kind of abstraction that doesn’t erase the human, just detaches it from identification. No face. No detail. But still a presence. Technically, the image defies critique by design. It isn’t sharp—at all. The highlights push into soft bloom, the street dissolves into haze, and the…

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    A Different Passion…

    June 12, 2016

    Remainders in Prati

    December 4, 2013

    Who Is The Machine?

    August 5, 2019
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Lost In Barcelona’s Beauty

    June 13, 2014 /

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    David Hume Was Right On Causation… or Maybe Not

    October 23, 2026

    Ramón Jarque, tocaor

    October 29, 2017

    The Fighter

    June 2, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People

    Catching the Tube in Paris

    June 11, 2014 /

    Street photography often thrives on the interplay between the static and the fleeting, and this frame from Paris captures that balance with precision. The scene is anchored by the familiar visual cues of the city — the “METRO” sign, the Haussmannian stonework, the ordered chaos of bicycles, cafés, and traffic further down the street. These elements provide a stable architectural stage against which the human drama plays out. The blurred stride of the man crossing the frame injects the shot with movement and urgency, the sort of kinetic energy that turns a documentary image into a narrative one. His presence, slightly soft due to motion blur, contrasts sharply with the…

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    Red Wine Makes Good Blood…

    April 27, 2014

    Surreal Judo

    December 11, 2016

    Half a Bridge

    October 16, 2016
  • 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. Clarity can be a virtue, even when it delivers its message with the blunt weight of inevitability. Here, a simple blue sign announces the location of the mortuary—not just once, but three times, in three languages. French, Latin, English. No ambiguity, no chance of misunderstanding. Just in case. The composition frames the sign against the muted greys of the surrounding architecture, a deliberate choice to strip away distractions. The words stand out, rendered in stark, functional typography, their neutrality belying the emotional weight of the place they indicate. Photography thrives on layers of meaning, and here the…

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    Nad Sylvan

    July 10, 2017

    Supporter or Photographer?

    March 21, 2013

    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 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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    A Manual-Focus Atteimpt on a Moving Target

    July 26, 2013

    The Mystique of Film

    August 24, 2022

    Street-Photographer’s eye side effect

    April 8, 2014
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