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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Bikers

    July 14, 2014 /

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    Columns

    November 10, 2014

    Washed

    November 22, 2015

    Smoke is everywhere…

    February 21, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    The Shooter’s Dilemma

    July 12, 2014 /

    I took this during a routine shooting session. The man wasn’t posing. He was checking his grouping, arms crossed behind his back, body still, gaze locked forward. The target hangs silent. No smoke, no sound, just aftermath. The image is built on symmetry and distance. I framed from behind, dead-centre, letting the shooter’s back align with the silhouette’s head. They overlap in posture and scale. It’s a quiet mirroring—two figures facing off, one made of flesh, the other paper. Shot wide open at f/2.8, focus sits on the shooter’s shoulder line. The target softens just slightly—enough to retain its shape, not enough to compete. ISO at 800, shutter at 1/160s.…

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    Plenty of Chairs in Via Veneto

    December 2, 2013

    5 (improbable) Frames with a roll of Ferrania Orto and a Nikon 35TI

    February 28, 2024

    Street Food in Via Salaria

    March 13, 2014
  • 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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    Fun

    November 12, 2014

    Friend or Foe?

    January 21, 2013

    Good Idea

    January 31, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  People,  Summer

    A Dragon Trainer?

    July 8, 2014 /

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    Square Three

    June 20, 2014

    Late Night Conversation at Cardinal’s Wharf

    September 29, 2016

    Photography and the dangers of ethics

    April 17, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control

    Oops!

    July 4, 2014 /

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    Is This Photo Illegal?

    March 20, 2014

    Three Legged?

    July 21, 2017

    Close up of an Ethnic Chessboard

    September 1, 2018
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Streetlight Duet

    June 30, 2014 /

    Late-day sun is the best kind of collaborator—less commanding than noon, more generous than twilight. It brushed the scene just enough to lift texture from skin and fabric without blowing out detail. I didn’t ask them to pose, but the casual lean against the car and the hand over the guitar’s body settled naturally. That balance between intimacy and performative posture intrigued me. This shot could have easily slipped into cliché—two musicians and a guitar, the standard fare of street portraits. But the subtle discord between expression and energy saves it. One wears a smile that could go either way: pride or deflection. The other looks on with the quiet…

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    The Smoker’s Golden Rule: A Coffee Always Calls a Cigarette

    July 9, 2013

    Street Compass Rose

    September 25, 2013

    Hell Behind — Tiny Holes Reveal the Flames

    March 19, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Street Markets

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 2

    June 28, 2014 /

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    A Grocery Store in Rome

    November 5, 2014

    The last flower

    May 20, 2013

    Portrait of an Heavy Metal Singer

    November 21, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Street Markets

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014 /

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    Uchi-Mata

    November 8, 2014

    Freeze!

    December 19, 2014

    Between Sea and Sky

    February 12, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    The Unconvinced Listener

    June 25, 2014 /

    This was one of those shots where the scene composed itself. I didn’t need to move much—just recognise and release the shutter. What drew me in was the geometry of the interaction: a makeshift stage, oversaturated lighting washing the performers in synthetic blue, and in the foreground, a single man caught mid-gesture, possibly clapping, possibly holding a phone, or perhaps neither—his posture uncertain and unaligned with the music unfolding metres ahead. The band, framed neatly under the overhang of a modern tram stop, seems to exist in its own world, driven by rhythm, sequins, and stage light bravado. They’re working hard. But the man in the foreground? He’s not buying…

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    Gloves

    October 19, 2014

    Waiting for the Justice to Arrive

    March 11, 2013

    Windows XVIII … Century

    February 27, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control,  Spring

    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014 /

    Shot on a Leica M9 with a Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2.8, this image is more about suspension than action. The frame holds a waiting posture — literally and metaphorically. No speeches, no slogans, just the inertia of democratic process taking over the political machinery. I wanted to convey stillness without silence. The Biogon’s rendering gave me that microcontrast and edge clarity I rely on when details matter more than gestures. The M9 sensor — as unpredictable as it can be in mixed light — held together the tonal values well here, especially in the midtones. Shadow detail was secondary; this wasn’t about hiding or revealing, but about the unresolved pause…

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    The Misplaced Buoy

    April 26, 2014

    Where Do I Go From Here?

    October 13, 2016

    Carabinieri:To Serve And Protect

    February 8, 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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    A view of the Bologna’s Station

    April 28, 2019

    Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

    January 14, 2013

    One Coffee

    December 20, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014 /

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    Uncertainity

    August 11, 2013

    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014

    George Braque

    October 11, 2013
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  People

    Out For Justice

    June 21, 2014 /

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    Waiting To Board

    February 4, 2013

    Lonely cart

    March 4, 2013

    Multiple Peripheral Visions

    February 10, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Street Markets

    Square Three

    June 20, 2014 /

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    When the parking’s lost

    May 16, 2013

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 7 – Kodak Portra 160 – June 2015 shot in Oct. 2023

    January 11, 2024

    The Gate to the Appeal

    October 10, 2021
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014 /

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    Outside the Nobel Museum

    June 30, 2016

    Chasing the Runner

    October 6, 2013

    Skating on Avenue Louise

    April 1, 2014
  • Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Square Two

    June 18, 2014 /

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    Belgian Chocolate – Neuhaus

    November 16, 2015

    Sleep Wins

    August 30, 2013

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 2 – Ilford XP2Super 400 – Nov. 2017 shot in May 2023

    July 25, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Square One

    June 17, 2014 /

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    Buying Chocolate

    October 31, 2015

    Sweet Dilemma

    November 4, 2015

    Mussels Underwater…

    August 23, 2014
  • 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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    A Tribute to An Old Friend

    January 7, 2014

    All Mobiles But One Book

    June 24, 2017

    Strategy

    September 20, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Portrait of a Politician – 2

    June 15, 2014 /

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    Pipes in Colour

    May 1, 2015

    On Composition. Or: the eye sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend

    September 11, 2023

    Cleaning the Tabernacle

    November 26, 2022
  • 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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    Remainders in Prati

    December 4, 2013

    Chitchat under the rain

    March 10, 2013

    A Toilet of the Court of Rome

    March 11, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Lost In Barcelona’s Beauty

    June 13, 2014 /

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    A Missed Pricetag?

    January 29, 2013

    Ghosts

    October 19, 2016

    Emanuele Cavallucci. The New Italian Pro Boxing Welterweight Champion

    March 9, 2019
  • 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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    A Rural View

    December 8, 2014

    Red Fan

    June 14, 2022

    Barbarians At the Beach

    August 30, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  People,  Spring

    Thirsty

    June 10, 2014 /

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    Genta Fukue live@Sakura Terrace – Kyoto

    June 22, 2017

    A Ryanair Aircraft

    August 21, 2018

    Upcoming Call

    June 3, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Small Talk in Las Ramblas

    June 4, 2014 /

    I took this photo in Barcelona, where conversation isn’t background noise but part of the architecture. Las Ramblas is never quiet, never empty—always a current of movement, commerce, and human theatre. Yet in this frame, the flow is briefly suspended by a gesture: one man leaning down to greet another, while a third man stands as witness, folded newspaper in hand, arms set in a subtle brace of familiarity. The scene unfolds naturally, without prompting. I wasn’t aiming for perfection but presence—being there, camera in hand, when a moment coalesced. Compositionally, it’s informal yet balanced. The figures form a loose triangle, anchoring the shot while the rest of the world…

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