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  • 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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    Absence in Three Acts

    May 21, 2015

    Counter-intuitive Focus

    February 9, 2020

    Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)

    December 19, 2024
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014 /

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    5 frames with a Voigtländer Bessa R2, a Nokton 35/1,4 and a roll of an expired Kodak Portra 160

    July 11, 2024

    Evolution in Red

    November 20, 2019

    Not A Rorschach Inkblot

    December 24, 2017
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  People

    Out For Justice

    June 21, 2014 /

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    Mind Your Way!

    May 28, 2013

    An Intense Conversation

    October 9, 2013

    A true friend

    March 29, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Street Markets

    Square Three

    June 20, 2014 /

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    In the backstage

    May 10, 2013

    The Taste Master

    March 2, 2014

    Foto-Grafo admitted to the Persol Reflex Edition contest

    April 16, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014 /

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    Guest Are Welcome!

    December 1, 2014

    Carabinieri in Milan

    January 28, 2014

    Leitz Summicron 50/2 and Nikon Z5 – An empirical field test

    January 3, 2026
  • Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Square Two

    June 18, 2014 /

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    Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop

    July 24, 2025

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Volley Female Team – Laura Giombini, Giulia Toti

    October 17, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Square One

    June 17, 2014 /

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    Pipeline

    February 13, 2014

    Processing DSLR-digitized film with and without Pentax K-1 Monochrome Custom Image profile

    April 30, 2023

    Play It Again, Sam!

    April 13, 2017
  • 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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    The last flower

    May 20, 2013

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Volley Team – Marco Caminati (and a primer on sport photography, part 6)

    October 13, 2015

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

    September 24, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Portrait of a Politician – 2

    June 15, 2014 /

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    A Moto Guzzi Falcone and an Expired Kodak Portra 160 Roll

    October 25, 2025

    Where Did I Left My Car?

    April 2, 2015

    Red Moon at the end of August

    September 1, 2023
  • 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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    The Sharp Shooter

    March 10, 2015

    Justice measured as the distance between Words and Facts

    July 10, 2023

    The Eye

    April 25, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Lost In Barcelona’s Beauty

    June 13, 2014 /

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    Will The iPhone Kill Traditional Cameras? Not Very

    October 15, 2019

    The Coach

    December 9, 2018

    Action shot

    January 7, 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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    Sea Anemones Shot With A Cheap Kit

    August 20, 2014

    A Jazz-Manouche Guitar Player

    August 17, 2014

    Portrait of a Professional Pugilist. Davide De Lellis

    March 8, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  People,  Spring

    Thirsty

    June 10, 2014 /

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    When Venus Meets the Moon

    October 2, 2023

    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014

    2015 Italian Beach Volley Team – Marco Caminati, Enzo Rossi

    October 29, 2015
  • 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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    Skating on the streets of Milan

    October 4, 2013

    Is This My Breakfast? (Kirobo, the new Pinocchio)

    December 14, 2014

    A Rural View

    December 8, 2014
  • 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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    School of Mathematics@Sapienza University of Rome

    November 10, 2018

    Belgian Gloves

    October 15, 2015

    A Spanish Long Jumper

    September 11, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    The Skeptical Listener

    May 26, 2014 /

    While a politician addresses his audience, a skeptical listener think of how many times she’ve been there before…

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    Carl Zeiss T* 50 1,5 Sonnar and EOS EF-M 18-55

    August 4, 2013

    Blowin in the Wind

    February 8, 2014

    Spectral Lotus

    July 19, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Pure Joy. An Essay in Street-Photography

    May 25, 2014 /

    The smile of a grandson worths a whole life. When I made “Pure Joy”, I recognised instantly that it was the kind of moment street photographers chase for years — brief, unrehearsed, and unrepeatable. No posing, no staging. Just a collision of light, gesture, and emotion that existed for a fraction of a second before dissolving into the street’s rhythm again.

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    The Financial Times at Night

    October 1, 2016

    Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g. The difference between Marketing and Reality in Image Quality

    January 24, 2021

    Kudos to Ricoh

    February 8, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Portrait of Keyboard Player

    May 18, 2014 /

    He had just finished a piece when I took the shot. Head tilted, hand still resting on the keys, that slight smirk not forced but earned. This wasn’t posed—it was a breath between moments, a performer halfway out of character and halfway into self-awareness. The ambient energy of the room still swirled around him—soft voices, chairs moving, blurred motion in the background—but he held still. I composed tight to emphasise the contrast between stillness and motion. The background drags slightly, figures abstracted by a slower shutter speed, but the face and fingers are crisp—anchoring the shot where it needs to be. The lighting was mixed: tungsten overhead, cooler light from…

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    Damned Autofocus

    April 20, 2014

    A Comfortable Chair

    November 8, 2013

    Sala degli Onori @ Triennale di Milano

    May 19, 2017
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Between Two Sets

    May 15, 2014 /

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    Fixing the ship

    August 18, 2021

    An outdoor theatre?

    January 31, 2013

    Relax At The Rapallo’s Marina

    August 2, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Inside the Garrison

    May 14, 2014 /

    In a usually busy day, the bomberos enjoy a moment of relax.

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    The Score Keeper

    April 25, 2019

    Pop Art Meets Industrial Hamburg

    April 24, 2018

    Should I Stay or Should I Go?

    November 29, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  People,  Spring

    The New Church

    May 13, 2014 /

    In the XXIth Century, a new church grows, to satisfy old needs.

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    Audience

    February 20, 2014

    Empty Spaces

    May 23, 2014

    The Photo I Didn’t Shoot

    June 8, 2013
  • Airport,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Travels

    Guru Meditation

    May 12, 2014 /

    Airports are temples of waiting. They strip away the illusion of control, leaving travellers suspended in time between one place and another. In that in-between, people invent ways to cope. Here, in a lounge of muted reds and glassy daylight, a man folds himself into a private space. One leg drawn up, back curved, cap pulled low, he cradles a tablet as if it were a small book or a talisman. His fingers rest lightly on it, not tapping, not scrolling—just holding. The surrounding noise and movement dissolve in his stillness. This is meditation for the digital age. Not in a forest clearing or a candlelit room, but in an…

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    Shadow On The Wall

    August 30, 2015

    Game Over

    April 15, 2022

    Belgian Chocolate – Neuhaus

    November 16, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    A Sunny day in Rome

    May 10, 2014 /

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    Rockabilly

    September 15, 2013

    The Street Photographer Rights In Italy. The Leaflet

    July 10, 2014

    Pop Art Meets Industrial Hamburg

    April 24, 2018
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014 /

    Street photography often unfolds in fractions of a second that resist tidy interpretation. This frame emerged from one of those moments — brief, slightly absurd, and quietly revealing. The photograph shows three men crossing the same urban space yet seemingly inhabiting different psychological trajectories. The bald man in the foreground, dressed in a vivid orange jumper that stands out against the subdued tones of the pavement, appears momentarily detached from the flow of movement around him. His posture is firm, almost statuesque, as if he had paused mid-stride to reassess the scene. The shopping bag hanging from his hand becomes less an object of practical use than a compositional counterweight,…

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    Portrait of a Perinatal Cardiologist

    July 11, 2014

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    January 31, 2021

    Yet Another Dawn

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