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  • Boston,  Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Summer

    Justice measured as the distance between Words and Facts

    July 10, 2023 /

    This photo, in itself, is nothing special. Bur it carries an implicit message about law and rights: the level of democracy in a country is measured by the distance between bold statements and the daily courtroom’s reality.

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    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014

    Emanuele Cavallucci. The New Italian Pro Boxing Welterweight Champion

    March 9, 2019

    Different Paths

    December 26, 2012
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo

    The Gate to the Appeal

    October 10, 2021 /

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    An urgent phone call?

    December 15, 2013

    The Photo I Didn’t Shoot

    June 8, 2013

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Winter

    The Temple of Justice

    February 25, 2017 /

    From an elevated perspective, the grand staircase of the Italian Court of Cassation descends in perfect symmetry. Framed by neoclassical columns and lit by reverent lamplight, this space does not merely lead—it ascends, conceptually, toward the divine. The title, The Temple of Justice, is not metaphorical hyperbole, but a statement of function and form. This is not a courthouse. It is a sanctuary. Justice, as the image suggests, is not a secular procedure. It is a liturgy. It unfolds with rituals, vestments, invocation of higher powers, and the solemnity of faith. The robes, the benches, the altars of the law—these mimic the language of churches. And the Court of Cassation, the…

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    The Expired Film Series – Episode 6 – Kodak Portra 400 – November 2016 shot in Sept. 2023

    June 5, 2024

    The Bell Ringer of Nikko

    August 6, 2018

    Boats

    September 18, 2021
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Lines,  Rome,  Winter

    Waiting for (Supreme) Justice

    February 14, 2017 /

    I took this while waiting, quietly, in Rome’s Corte di Cassazione—a place where silence isn’t just expected, it’s structural. Every arch, bench, and cornice feels designed to mute the outside world. What struck me wasn’t the grandeur (although the sculptural work is unapologetically ornate), but the emptiness. For all the architectural posturing, justice here is often a matter of waiting. The benches, scuffed and rigid, are the only human-scale elements in the frame. They sit below a frieze of muscular allegories and baroque pomp, a reminder of the institutional weight bearing down on the people beneath. The image is composed to reflect this—foreground arch framing the frieze, a horizontal band…

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    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italy Beach Soccer Team’s Goalkeeper (and a primer on sport photography, part 2)

    September 24, 2015

    Bycicle Ride

    August 28, 2013

    Waiting To Board

    February 4, 2013
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Ashtray

    February 12, 2017 /

    The scene was quiet, almost too still for such a monumental location. From the balcony of the Court of Cassation, Rome’s ornate facade stretched before me, its stonework carved with faces that have watched over decades of political and judicial tides. And yet, in the foreground, resting on a cracked, timeworn surface, sat a simple glass ashtray. The juxtaposition was almost absurd—this object of everyday habit placed against the backdrop of one of Italy’s most imposing institutions. Framing the shot, I wanted to preserve that contrast. The ashtray dominates the foreground, crisp in focus, while the grand entrance behind it softens into blur. This use of shallow depth of field…

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    Skating on the Riviera

    November 9, 2018

    Fujifilm X-T3 Video Cheat Sheet

    September 5, 2021

    Leo Gullotta – Bartleby lo scrivano@Teatro Marrucino

    March 15, 2022
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Winter

    The Relentless Lawyer

    February 6, 2017 /

    Standing in Court, no matter what! Some portraits are taken in the studio, with light sculpted and poses rehearsed. Others, like this one, are captured in the quiet fissures of reality—moments where the weight of a life’s work shows itself unprompted. The old lawyer’s face carries the texture of decades in courtrooms, each wrinkle etched by cross-examinations, verdicts, and long nights parsing the fine print of justice. His robe hangs loosely now, a little heavier than before, as though the fabric has absorbed the gravity of the battles fought. The light, cool and unforgiving, falls across his profile, illuminating both the weariness and the fire that coexist in his expression.…

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    Servicing a Beretta 98FS

    October 13, 2019

    The Call

    March 4, 2014

    One Shot Story: Behind the Fence

    January 3, 2025
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Projects,  Spring,  Summer

    Avvocati. A New Book

    October 11, 2015 /

    I’ve just finished the project I’ve been working in the past months. Lawyers’ human and private face.

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    Just A Cat

    June 29, 2014

    Under the Yellow Umbrella

    March 9, 2013

    Interior Design at Aurum

    May 26, 2013
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Which Part of “No Smoking” Got You Lost?

    June 21, 2015 /

    In the waiting hall of the local court, the walls speak louder than the people. Four separate notices, two of them screaming Vietato Fumare in different typographic voices, one barking about mobile phones, and another swathed in the formal tone of bureaucracy. It’s not so much signage as it is a visual overkill — a redundancy parade that says as much about the environment as it does about the rules themselves. I framed this shot to exaggerate the emptiness around the signs. The expanse of bare white wall creates an almost comical isolation, leaving the text to float in their own authoritative bubbles. The placement isn’t random — I kept…

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    A Ryanair Aircraft

    August 21, 2018

    Out-of-Focus Once Again

    February 28, 2015

    Gary O’ Toole

    July 15, 2017
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  Spring

    And Justice For All

    May 15, 2015 /

    This shot came together in complete silence — the kind of silence that only certain institutional buildings can generate. The kind made of marble, fluorescent light, and tension. I didn’t stage a thing; the geometry was already waiting for me. One man in the foreground, half-shielded by a paper, lines converging to a trio sitting far in the distance — it all felt like a scene rehearsed for a stage I just happened to walk onto. Compositionally, this image relies heavily on symmetry and recession. The central aisle, vanishing neatly into the background, draws the eye from the bold human presence up front to the barely-noticed figures in the rear…

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    Too Noisy

    May 24, 2013

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Beach Wrestlers

    October 21, 2015

    Duel Inside The Cage

    November 20, 2014
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Trial Docks Waiting for the Justice to Come

    April 21, 2015 /

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    The Leica M9 CCDgate Outrageous Case

    December 11, 2014

    Lockpicking Tools

    December 11, 2018

    Whithin The Cage

    October 22, 2014
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Spring

    Final Arrangements Before the Hearing

    April 19, 2015 /

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    A Fence

    November 6, 2014

    After a Tough Day

    January 30, 2016

    One Coffee

    December 20, 2015
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Social Control

    Outside the Courthall

    April 15, 2015 /

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    A Sad Afternoon

    October 7, 2013

    Shadows&Lights

    March 7, 2014

    The Soul Of Politics

    July 17, 2014
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Too Late

    April 10, 2015 /

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    Keep Out!

    November 30, 2019

    Wasted Shot Because iPhone 7 Poor Low-Light Handling

    January 22, 2019

    A Fujifilm X-E1 Annoyance

    April 15, 2014
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Spring

    Behind the Glass

    April 4, 2015 /

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    So long and thank you for the fish

    February 6, 2014

    The Real-Life Lens Test Series – Episode 1: Viltrox XF 56/1,4 AF

    June 6, 2024

    The Hasselblad Way

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

    Justice Under Construction

    March 31, 2015 /

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    Late Afternoon Workers

    December 23, 2013

    Hanging News

    June 18, 2013

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Winter

    Arrested Behind the Door

    March 29, 2015 /

    Photographing in the criminal court of Rome is a peculiar experience — the air is thick with bureaucracy and human tension, yet most of it plays out behind closed doors. In this frame, the door is both a literal and symbolic barrier: clean, almost featureless, save for the taped sheet of paper outlining the rules of entry. It is stark in its message: access to the waiting room for the arrested is only permitted to lawyers, and only upon proof of formal appointment. Everything else — the people, their stories, their anxiety — remains hidden. From a compositional standpoint, I kept the framing tight and frontal. The geometry of the…

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    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Handball Female Team (and a primer on sport photography, part 3)

    September 30, 2015

    Hanging Towels

    March 29, 2014

    Harley-Davidson: Chrome And Presence

    December 24, 2018
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Spring

    Room 17 – VIXI

    March 27, 2015 /

    The steel doors of Aula 17 stand closed, expressionless. Matte black, scratched, impassive. Above them, a bureaucratic sign: 7ᵃ Sezione, Edificio B. On the right, a board once meant to list names and hearings is now empty—washed clean by time or intention. Seventeen is an unlucky number in Italy. Rearranged, the Roman numerals XVII form VIXI—”I have lived”, an epitaph. And so, Room 17 becomes more than a courtroom. It becomes a threshold. A place where the living confront endings. The end of freedom. The end of illusions. Sometimes, the end of justice itself. The symmetry of the composition tightens the tension. Every element is locked in place. Nothing moves, and nothing is random.…

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    Shooting an Outdoor Volleyball Match

    June 19, 2025

    Pavement

    November 16, 2014

    Action shot

    January 7, 2013
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Spring

    Legal Apartheid

    March 25, 2015 /

    Two elevators, side by side, divided not by function but by status. On the left, a small sign reads Pubblico. On the right, Avvocati. Between them, a strip of blank wall holds the call buttons and a standard notice: Non usare in caso di incendio. The symmetry is perfect, the contrast sharper for it. In the Court of Rome, this arrangement makes practical sense. Lawyers must move quickly between hearings; delays can derail the fragile timetable of justice. Efficiency demands a separate lift. And yet, looking at it here—reduced to a flat, black-and-white composition—the logic fades, and something else emerges. The brushed steel doors are marked with smudges and fingerprints, traces of the…

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    The Sentinel

    August 13, 2013

    An urgent phone call?

    December 15, 2013

    Tesla Coils@Boston Science Museum

    July 4, 2023
  • 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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    On The Rocks

    August 13, 2014

    Stop

    December 6, 2018

    Generations

    February 5, 2013
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  People

    Out For Justice

    June 21, 2014 /

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    Boat Dock Bumpers

    October 26, 2014

    Under The Bridge

    June 27, 2016

    Gotcha!

    August 16, 2013
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Reportage,  Rome,  Winter

    A Toilet of the Court of Rome

    March 11, 2014 /

    This image wasn’t taken to shock, or to moralise. It was taken to document—to observe the banal degradation of a public space that ought to represent dignity, order, and functionality. The Court of Rome is not some anonymous bureaucratic annex. It’s an institution, a symbol of authority. And this—this corner of neglect, dirt, and rust—is part of its daily mise en scène. The frame is unadorned. The composition is split by a hard vertical: clean white tiles with a wall-mounted sink on the right, and a long, filth-streaked heating unit under sealed windows on the left. It’s the juxtaposition that struck me—two realities in the same room. One part designed…

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    October 29, 2020

    Hidden in Plain Sight. A Japanese Journey

    August 3, 2023

    Is This Photo Illegal?

    March 20, 2014
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Streets&Squares

    St. Peter in Background

    December 5, 2013 /

    St. Peter and Castel S. Angelo as seen from the fourth floor of the Corte di cassazione (Italian Supreme Court.)

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    Pizza Maker@Ueno’s Park

    June 6, 2018

    Hanging Bottle

    October 11, 2014

    Italian Track&Field Championship 2018 – The reportage

    September 12, 2018
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Spring

    Waiting for the Justice to Arrive

    March 11, 2013 /

    In this hallway of the Tribunale Penale di Roma, time seems suspended. Lawyers sit or stand, briefcases at their feet, bundles of files in hand. Some engage in hushed conversation, others review notes with ritualistic precision. A woman in red draws the eye—a rare burst of colour in an otherwise subdued palette of solemnity. The title, Waiting for the Justice to Arrive, operates on two planes. On the surface, it is procedural. The court has not yet opened its doors; the judge is late, the hearing is postponed. These legal professionals must simply wait—idle, static, alert. Justice, here, is both person and principle: the judge must enter the courtroom for proceedings…

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    July 15, 2015

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    October 16, 2016

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