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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Bycicle Ride

    August 28, 2013 /

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    A Fishnet – 2

    October 29, 2014

    Ray-Ban in Milan

    October 5, 2015

    The Chicken

    September 10, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Afternoon’s Mumbling

    August 27, 2013 /

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    Yet Another Tokyo Tower Nightshot

    July 27, 2017

    As Seen on Ferrania Film’ Stories section…

    December 4, 2023

    Waiting for the Fish

    December 18, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Pillars Of The Beach

    August 25, 2013 /

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    Red Fan

    June 14, 2022

    Three Lamps

    September 19, 2022

    Room 17 – VIXI

    March 27, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Photography,  Thoughts

    The Nightmare

    August 23, 2013 /

    Last night, at what should have been an intimate tango exhibition, I was reminded how delicate the relationship between photographer, performer, and audience really is. It’s a balance of presence and discretion — a dance of our own, if you will — and when one party missteps, the whole atmosphere can falter. The image I took here is less about the aesthetics of tango than about an interruption to its magic. In the foreground stands a photographer, camera raised, entirely absorbed in his task. The moon glows softly above him, the darkness swallowing most of the scene, but it’s clear enough to see the intent concentration on his face. Off…

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    Play It Again, Sam!

    April 13, 2017

    Becoming a Human Tripod

    January 9, 2017

    Friendship is Forever

    March 6, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Staring At The Infinite

    August 22, 2013 /

    Shot on a quiet coastline, this image started as a spontaneous exercise in balance and distance—two figures set against the immeasurable vastness of the sea. The horizon offered a natural axis, both dividing and uniting the sky and the water, while the couple, placed slightly off-centre, became the emotional anchor. I chose a moderate focal length to avoid exaggerating depth or flattening perspective. The intent was to render the vastness not as spectacle, but as presence—imposing yet still intimate. The sea is not in fury, nor calm; it simply is, stretching without end behind them. That’s the metaphor I was after. Compositionally, I leaned on symmetry without being rigid. The…

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    A Focused (or Sad) Violinist

    December 17, 2016

    A Mysterious Bag

    November 2, 2013

    The Power of Music

    March 22, 2013
  • Artists,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Photography,  Thoughts

    When The Passion Is Gone (thank to a sneaky photographer)

    August 21, 2013 /

    The close-up delivers a feeling of hot passion, as often tangueros do. But a wider view, including that sneaky photographer, kills the mood.

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    Using a 1960 Leica Elmarit 90/2,8 on a Fuji X-T3

    April 5, 2021

    A true cricket?

    September 16, 2013

    A Fisherman

    December 25, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    High Heels Ghost

    August 20, 2013 /

    I took this on a Saturday night, tripod low, exposure long. The street was busy but silent—one of those moments when you hear the city breathe between footsteps and engines. She passed quickly, dressed for somewhere else, but the shutter stayed open just long enough to erase her features and leave only motion. She became a spectre. Legs firm, heels sharp, but the torso blurred into translucence. It wasn’t planned. I wanted to catch life, but what emerged was absence—graceful, flickering, unresolved. That duality between presence and erasure fascinated me. Compositionally, it’s a static stage: parked cars, rough bark, municipal geometry. The frame’s symmetry anchors the chaos of the motion…

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    Early Leave at Bruxelles-Midi

    March 23, 2014

    Diner After the Show

    July 7, 2013

    Counter-intuitive Focus

    February 9, 2020
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    Saturday Night’s Ice Cream

    August 19, 2013 /

    This image was taken late one summer evening, in that quiet stretch after dinner but before the streets empty out. The man in the frame is devouring his ice cream like it’s the first proper moment he’s had to himself all day—elbows on knees, back curved forward, eyes fixed on the cone like it holds more than just pistachio and stracciatella. Technically speaking, the photograph is far from pristine. Handheld in low light with a slow shutter and high ISO, the noise creeps in and sharpness suffers. But I don’t mind that. Precision wasn’t the priority here. What I wanted was to capture a trace of stillness in motion, a…

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    Restaurant or Killing House?

    July 18, 2017

    Side by Side, Ready to Ride

    July 21, 2015

    The New Church

    May 13, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People,  Summer

    When We Were Kids

    August 18, 2013 /

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    A party that shall never come

    May 9, 2013

    Guest Are Welcome!

    December 1, 2014

    Portrait of a politician – 1

    October 25, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Avid Readers

    August 17, 2013 /

    Anything, Anywhere…

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    What’s the Time?

    October 8, 2019

    Abstract

    May 9, 2023

    Protezione Civile

    November 12, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Gotcha!

    August 16, 2013 /

    It was the contrast that caught my eye. A man stands knee-deep in the Adriatic shallows, focused, precise, moving a small blue net through the water like he’s brushing dust off glass. He’s working under the shadow of a trabocco—a towering wooden fishing machine, all cables and beams, designed to drop massive nets and haul in fish by the hundreds. The kind of structure that speaks of industry, tradition, scale. But here he is. Alone. Shirtless. Waist-deep. Fishing by hand. The second frame pulls back. You see it all—the full span of the trabocco, its arms stretched wide like a maritime cathedral. And at the base, dwarfed by design, the same man…

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    A Droplet

    February 21, 2021

    Night Serenade

    September 12, 2013

    A Haunted(?) House

    September 19, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control

    Is This Smoke?

    August 15, 2013 /

    It seems so.

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    Into The Cube

    November 18, 2014

    Stand-up, Sugar!

    March 8, 2014

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo

    Who Said That Music Is Relaxing?

    August 14, 2013 /

    Performance photography often leans on grand gestures—flying hair, dramatic spotlight, or an ecstatic soloist. I went in the opposite direction here, waiting for a moment of exhaustion rather than exaltation. The guitarist’s slumped posture, arm draped over his face, dissolves the illusion of effortless expression. It’s not stage fright or defeat—just the inescapable weight of presence. Shot from the stalls with a moderate telephoto, I aimed to compress the performer and his instrument, emphasising their closeness. The guitar, held tightly even in rest, becomes an extension of the body rather than a separate tool. The body language is loud, even if the room was likely hushed. I chose not to…

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    A Fisherman in Rome

    November 1, 2013

    Three of a Kind

    July 6, 2013

    Multiple Meaning

    December 10, 2013
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Easy Parking

    August 12, 2013 /

    He wasn’t in a hurry. The light was sharp, late afternoon, cutting across the concrete pillar like a blade, and he took his time adjusting the bags on the handlebar. A pair of shorts, sandals, striped shirt — nothing out of place, nothing performative. A man and his bicycle in a pocket of shadow beneath an overpass, with the river just behind. I didn’t move, didn’t call out. Just raised the camera and took the frame. This is a photo built on tension between geometry and decay. The straight line of the railing, the vertical force of the pillar, the rhythm of the bridge in the background — all intersect…

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    The Modern Preacher

    November 14, 2016

    The Financial Times at Night

    October 1, 2016

    Art Auction at Piazza Navona

    February 6, 2016
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Uncertainity

    August 11, 2013 /

    Photographs taken in urban dockside environments often carry a layered narrative—of industry meeting leisure, of movement paused, of a city’s arteries stretching both above and below the waterline. This image, with its juxtaposition of a small, worn boat in the foreground and the sweeping, multi-tiered bridges beyond, encapsulates that tension between the static and the dynamic. From a compositional perspective, the wooden railing in the foreground frames the lower half of the image, anchoring the scene and guiding the viewer’s gaze towards the boats. The man standing by the rail, casual in stance and attire, adds a human scale that balances the massive concrete structures above. His positioning—turned slightly away…

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    Caparezza – Live@Palamaggetti Roseto degli Abruzzi

    February 18, 2018

    Belgian Gloves

    October 15, 2015

    The Racers

    December 7, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Summer

    Smile!

    August 7, 2013 /

    Smile! It’s contagious!

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    The Day of the Zombies

    October 23, 2016

    The Ghost

    February 15, 2013

    Sun Worshipers

    January 3, 2022
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Summer

    Early Morning Shaving on The Beach

    August 6, 2013 /

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    Missed Airplane

    December 4, 2017

    Bulbs

    January 12, 2015

    Piero Mazzocchetti – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio

    May 12, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Is The Sky Falling On Their Heads?

    August 1, 2013 /

    The photograph wasn’t planned. It was simply observed — a pocket of time, mid-afternoon, Abruzzo heat bearing down, the kind that slows everything to a stubborn crawl. I stood facing this kiosk-bar, the kind you find near campsites and old swimming pools, and pressed the shutter as the two men crossed paths. It wasn’t about them, specifically. It was about the echo — the posture, the bellies, the slightly arched backs, the shared suspicion of something overhead. The title is a nod, of course — Uderzo and Goscinny’s Asterix stories, and that primal fear of the sky falling on our heads. These men could have walked straight off a panel…

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    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021

    Zebra Crossing in Oslo… With Red Light

    October 12, 2014

    On Photography and Self-Delusion

    September 4, 2022
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo

    A few shots from a Paco de Lucia live performance

    July 31, 2013 /

    A few shots from a Live Report I did for Rockol.it, an online music magazine

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    A Sailors’ Warehouse

    September 9, 2014

    The Silent Listeners

    December 27, 2013

    The Spectators

    August 19, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    An Evening Chat

    July 30, 2013 /

    The heat is unbearable in the evening of summer, but it doesn’t stop people from enjoying the outdoor nightlife.

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    Ottica Boncompagni

    November 7, 2014

    Multitasking

    February 10, 2013

    Last Puff Before the Ride

    December 26, 2015
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Careful With That Bike, Eugene!

    July 29, 2013 /

    Sticks And Stones Can Break My Bones…

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    Gigi Cifarelli Guitar Solo (feat. Michele Di Toro) – Live@Florian Espace Pescara

    March 8, 2016

    Bored

    March 7, 2013

    The Doorman

    September 1, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Life, the Universe and Everything

    July 28, 2013 /

    …Told U So!

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    Max Gazzè Tour 2016 Live @Pescara

    February 1, 2016

    Kite Surfers

    October 16, 2021

    Argument on the Range

    November 7, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Shops

    Self-Defense

    July 27, 2013 /

    Three against one…

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    Hanging Bottle

    October 11, 2014

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

    September 30, 2015

    Modern Moai?

    October 10, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    While the kids grow-up…

    July 25, 2013 /

    While the kids grow-up, a father waits with patience.

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    A Fashion Shop in Milan

    January 21, 2014

    Nad Sylvan

    July 10, 2017

    Alex Britti – Live@Cinema teatro Massimo – Pescara

    April 3, 2016
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