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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Shops

    Upcoming Call

    June 3, 2013 /

    A moment inside a café where a man sits alone at a small round table covered with a floral tablecloth. His posture is relaxed, one leg crossed over the other, as he holds a smartphone in his hand and looks toward the large window beside him. The leather jacket and muted colours of his clothing contrast with the warm wooden chairs and patterned fabrics that furnish the interior.

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    Accidental Precision

    February 12, 2016

    Portraits From Nagoro, the Scarecrows’ Village

    December 25, 2025

    Sideways Through the Tunnel

    April 5, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fighters,  Fighting Disciplines,  People,  Sport

    The Fighter

    June 2, 2013 /

    A tribute to a brave man. Between rounds, the noise shifts. The roar of the crowd blurs into a muffled hum, replaced by the clipped, urgent tones of a voice you trust more than your own instincts—the cornerman. This photograph holds that moment still. The fighter, bare-chested, gloves resting on the ropes, his breathing heavy but measured, absorbs each word. His eyes, narrowed and locked, aren’t simply looking; they are processing, dissecting, committing to memory. Every bead of sweat on his skin is a testament to the round just fought, every vein and muscle carrying the weight of the one to come. The cornerman leans in, body language sharp with…

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    Fujifilm XF 100-400: a quick test

    January 12, 2018

    A Sailor’s Knot

    November 22, 2013

    Desolation

    May 13, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Projects

    Mind Your Way!

    May 28, 2013 /

    What did grab his attention?

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    After Heat, Structure

    November 12, 2021

    Good Idea

    January 31, 2014

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Projects

    Guess who’s happier?

    May 27, 2013 /

    Easy, isn’t it? The title “Guess Who’s Happier” finds its answer before you even look twice. In the foreground, a man in a bold red Hawaiian shirt strides into frame, caught mid-motion, mid-laugh. He wears a grey fedora, sunglasses, and the loose, unselfconscious energy of someone untouched by the stiffness of the scene around him. His shirt blooms with white hibiscus prints, a quiet rebellion against the asphalt and glass of the urban backdrop. Behind him, to the right, a man in a dark suit and tie steps forward with a deliberate, guarded pace. His expression is unreadable, but the body language is tight, restrained—functional. The suit, the posture, the context…

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    Kime in Photography

    June 9, 2013

    A Fujifilm X-E1 Annoyance

    April 15, 2014

    Outside the Nobel Museum

    June 30, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Thoughts

    Too Noisy

    May 24, 2013 /

    A Marching Brass Band rehearsing its performance… maybe too noisy even for daylight time?

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    I Don’t Get It

    May 7, 2026

    Blowin in the Wind

    February 8, 2014

    Portrait with Skewers

    December 6, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garages&Labs,  People,  Projects,  Shops

    A quiet watchdog or long-time friend who enjoys some rest??

    May 23, 2013 /

    I was walking through a narrow street in Rome when I saw him—stretched across the threshold of a dusty antiques shop like a soft barricade. Head down, ears flat, but not asleep. Not quite. He was watching with the kind of calm that doesn’t need to prove anything. The Leica M9 was set to zone focus, aperture around f/5.6, and I didn’t have time to fuss. I framed, stepped slightly left to catch the reflections in the glass, and took the shot. The light was diffuse—no harsh shadows, just a steady wash of warmth from the tungsten bulbs inside, softened further by the grey sky outside. The exposure held nicely,…

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    Path of Life

    May 17, 2017

    A creative approach to zone focusing with superfast manual lenses and mirrorless cameras in street photography

    September 28, 2024

    When We Thought We Would Have Changed The World

    August 21, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Urban Landscape,  Works

    Life is a bitch

    May 22, 2013 /

    Sunday morning. Scorching sun. A work to be done on time. Life is a bitch.

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    The Leica M9 CCDgate Outrageous Case

    December 11, 2014

    Bronine Volkit Camera Hub. Mixed feelings

    November 30, 2021

    A Haunted(?) House

    September 19, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    Couples

    May 17, 2013 /

    Two couples in a square. One seeks rest, the other, food.

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    A Lockheed C-130 Hercules

    January 31, 2021

    Wrecked Hull

    February 14, 2014

    Early Morning’s Cleanup

    July 21, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo

    A Master Luthier in his lab…

    May 14, 2013 /

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    Renovating Milan

    November 18, 2017

    Flashes’ Forgotten Powersuits

    April 11, 2014

    Off Duty

    September 4, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013 /

    To seat or no to seat?

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    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013

    Square Two

    June 18, 2014

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    September 20, 2025
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    In the backstage

    May 10, 2013 /

    There’s a kind of quiet tension in the way they lean against the wall. No people in sight. No instruments visible. Just the outlines of music, sleeping inside their forms. As a photographer, that’s the kind of silence you try to listen to. The room was dark, lit only from one side. The light caught the curve of one case and slipped off the edge of the other. Texture came forward. Shape. Memory. You could almost hear the faint creak of clasps, the echo of strings long since gone quiet. Sometimes the most expressive shots come when nothing is happening. No performance, no sound—just the pause in between. These cases…

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    What Lasts of Last Summer

    May 30, 2013

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    November 6, 2014

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    March 26, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    A chat on a lake shore

    May 6, 2013 /

    Countless photos like that have been shot. But enjoying a good moment together always deserves to be recorded

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    June 6, 2013

    When Tilted Photos Work

    December 18, 2019

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    May 17, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013 /

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    A Mysterious Bag

    November 2, 2013

    The Misplaced Buoy

    April 26, 2014

    The Kiev 60 and a fix for the frame spacing issue

    October 8, 2023
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013 /

    enjoying some fruit.

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    Night Serenade

    September 12, 2013

    Columns

    November 10, 2014

    Smoke is everywhere…

    February 21, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Waiting for the goal

    April 28, 2013 /

    Why can’t I enjoy my soccer team’s match instead of wasting my time here? Because my wife loves music…

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    Ni

    January 26, 2014

    Inside The Palace of Power

    September 17, 2015

    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013 /

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    Who Said That Music Is Relaxing?

    August 14, 2013

    Rest under a tree

    May 31, 2013

    An Unplausable Perspective

    May 6, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    The Hands of a Drummer (Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez)

    April 24, 2013 /

    You don’t photograph a legend. You try not to get in the way. This frame is all rhythm, no fanfare. No face, no spotlight—just hands, sticks, cymbals, and breath held between beats. It’s Horacio “El Negro” Hernández in concert, but not in the way the audience sees him. This is closer. Quieter. The private side of percussion. Shot just beneath the hi-hat, I framed the photo to let the hand speak: fingers curled not in tension, but in dialogue. The skin slightly worn, the grip half-visible—mid-phrase, mid-flow. The cymbals catch the stage light like the faintest of brushstrokes, shimmering but not stealing the scene. You can feel the groove here.…

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    May 7, 2026

    The Skeptical Listener

    May 26, 2014

    Behind the News

    June 25, 2013
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Shade of Berlin

    April 23, 2013 /

    … Jeff, Berlin.

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    April 24, 2018

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    December 8, 2018

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    August 27, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  People

    Knocking on lion’s door

    April 22, 2013 /

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    December 18, 2014

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    March 1, 2013

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    May 9, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Still Together

    April 20, 2013 /

    Still together, like the very first day. I saw them before they saw me — leaning slightly towards each other, their posture neither rigid nor slouched, but comfortably suspended in the shared gravity of the table between them. The wine glasses, half-filled with rosé, spoke of time already spent; the unopened bottle on the side suggested more still to come. From a compositional standpoint, I worked with the geometry of the setting — the square table, the vertical lines of the wall, and the quiet interruption of the stone column — to anchor the frame. The couple sit on opposite sides, yet the line of sight between them is unbroken,…

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    December 6, 2013

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    April 15, 2022

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    February 5, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    The missing guest

    April 19, 2013 /

    This image unfolded quietly, almost too politely — three men in jackets and ties sitting at a table clearly set for four. The elegance of the setup, from the pressed tablecloth to the carefully arranged centrepiece, clashes subtly with the anticipation suspended in their posture. Nobody makes eye contact. One reads the menu, the others look downward, pretending focus. The empty chair becomes the central subject without needing to move. Framing was tight on purpose. I let the olive oil bottle in the foreground stand, blurring into obscurity and giving some depth and texture to an otherwise sharply focused core. That slight intrusion also reinforces the perspective: I wasn’t part…

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    July 19, 2015

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    April 16, 2014

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    November 30, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Spring,  Travels

    The Worst Moment to Fix a Shoe’s Problem

    April 14, 2013 /

    Caught on a descending escalator, mid-bend, mid-thought—this is the photograph of a decision made too late. Everything in this frame leans forward. The vanishing point pulls you down, hard, like gravity with intention. The blur on the metal steps mimics momentum. You can almost feel the hum of machinery and the silent urgency of descent. At the centre of it all: a man hunched over, trying to wrestle control over something small and unruly—perhaps a loose shoelace, perhaps something more symbolic. I didn’t plan this shot. It happened fast. A reflex. Shot handheld, low light, no time to think, just enough to feel. The imperfection—the motion blur, the noise, the…

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    Bus Driver

    September 16, 2016

    Davide Grotta – Live

    December 8, 2018

    Who The Hell Killed the Light Off?

    August 2, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    An Old-Style ATM

    April 13, 2013 /

    This frame came together in the blink of an eye — or perhaps more accurately, in the blur of one. No carefully plotted composition, no tripod, no second chance. Just a brief exchange at a café counter: a plate extended, a hand offering payment, the warmth of human transaction before contactless cards made it all vanish into invisible transfers. The motion blur here is both the flaw and the essence. Technically speaking, the shutter speed was far too slow for handheld shooting in this kind of lighting, resulting in softness across the entire image. If sharpness were the sole measure of photographic merit, this would be an immediate reject. But…

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    Welcome in the Twilight Zone

    January 3, 2014

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    November 12, 2014

    Flashes’ Forgotten Powersuits

    April 11, 2014
  • Airport,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    No Tablet, No Problem

    April 12, 2013 /

    Airport Gate, Early Evening No screens. No earbuds. No glowing rectangles in sight. Just two people passing time with cards and conversation, waiting for a flight that’s probably delayed. The bench is metallic, cold. The lighting is flat. But between them, something human is happening—casual, quiet, and becoming increasingly rare. I didn’t stage this. I just noticed it. In a terminal where most people were curled into devices, these two were leaning forward, sharing space, actually looking at each other. He speaks, she listens. She gestures, he laughs. Their luggage is there, sure—but this moment isn’t about where they’re going. It’s about the pause before it. The photo isn’t sharp…

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