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  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Max Casacci – Live@Circolo Aternino, Pescara

    January 4, 2018 /

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    The Last Journey Of An Hero of Italian Motoring

    March 7, 2021

    Buying Chocolate

    October 31, 2015

    The Waiting

    December 23, 2012
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Alone

    December 31, 2017 /

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    Between Two Sets

    May 15, 2014

    The BatFire

    April 29, 2016

    Last Check Before The Show

    July 21, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Seasons,  Shooting,  Winter

    A Shooter

    December 8, 2017 /

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    Art Auction at Piazza Navona

    February 6, 2016

    The Lost Garage

    July 8, 2013

    An Old Motorcade

    August 10, 2015
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Social Control,  Winter

    The Quiet Riot

    November 19, 2017 /

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    Just a soccer match…

    May 15, 2013

    Reasonable Privacy Expectation

    April 17, 2014

    Relax At The Rapallo’s Marina

    August 2, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Los Niños y El Tocaor

    October 30, 2017 /

    The guitarist was Pedro Navarro, and he played with the kind of intimate conviction that can silence a room without demanding it. I took the shot during a flamenco recital in a modest Spanish cultural venue, one of those places where chairs creak and plaster flakes off the walls, but the soul is palpable. What caught me wasn’t just the precision of his fingers on the strings, or the deliberate slowness of the opening compás—it was the quiet appearance of the two boys at the back. Dressed like miniature adults, suspended in a corridor of sound and formality, unsure whether to stay or move on. One places a hand on…

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    Oops!

    July 4, 2014

    Stop

    December 6, 2018

    Unkempt

    December 4, 2015
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Ramón Jarque, tocaor

    October 29, 2017 /

    I have always found that photographing musicians is less about the performance and more about the moments in between — the quiet exchanges between player and instrument. In this portrait of Ramón Jarque, I wanted to strip away the spectacle and capture him in a state of private dialogue with his guitar. The composition is simple, almost understated. I framed Ramón in profile, letting the lines of his arm and guitar neck lead the viewer’s eye diagonally across the image. The background, with its blurred wine bottles and textured wall, is just present enough to provide context without intruding on the intimacy of the moment. Depth of field is shallow,…

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    Mulberry Street, When Benito II Was Still There…

    July 7, 2014

    Kite Surfing, Again

    February 19, 2017

    A Single(‘s) Call

    September 24, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Venice

    Damned Pidgeons…

    October 8, 2017 /

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    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014

    An experiment with Dall-E, ChatGPT and a Nissan S8

    November 4, 2023

    Remainders in Prati

    December 4, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Venice

    The Aperitif

    October 5, 2017 /

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    The Solitude of Power

    May 6, 2018

    After the Party

    December 16, 2013

    Asimo’s Ancestor@Tsukuba World1985 Expo

    June 30, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Matching Nails

    September 18, 2017 /

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    The Sinking Giant

    December 6, 2013

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013

    London Swash

    September 3, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer,  Venice

    Conversation

    September 14, 2017 /

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    Skating on the streets of Milan

    October 4, 2013

    Off-Duty Eurocrats in Bruxelles

    March 28, 2014

    Parallels & Diagonals

    December 21, 2012
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer,  Venice,  Visual

    Natural Silohuette

    September 8, 2017 /

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    The Score Keeper

    April 25, 2019

    Foto-Grafo featured on Yanidel.net

    March 20, 2013

    Ottica Boncompagni

    November 7, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Summer,  Venice

    The Glassmaster

    September 4, 2017 /

    I took this photograph in a small workshop where the air was thick with heat and the faint scent of molten silica. The man at the bench was a veteran glassblower, his movements so fluid they seemed choreographed—every rotation of the blowpipe, every precise turn of the wrist, shaped the glowing mass at its tip into something delicate and exact. In composing the image, I wanted to give space to the environment. This wasn’t simply a portrait; it was a record of a craft. The cluttered benches, the brick furnace, the scattered tools—these were as much a part of the story as the craftsman himself. I framed him slightly off-centre,…

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    One Coffee

    December 20, 2015

    Open Window

    February 4, 2015

    Mario Asks for it!

    April 9, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer,  Venice

    Interpreti Veneziani – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Live@San Vidal

    September 1, 2017 /

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    Time Runs Fast

    May 21, 2014

    Parisian’s Bags

    April 6, 2014

    Brain vs Camera

    April 19, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Summer

    The Spectators

    August 19, 2017 /

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    A Sad Cat in a Neko Cafè

    August 5, 2018

    A Standup Paddleboarder

    August 25, 2014

    Meaning in Photography

    March 4, 2020
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer,  Tokyo

    The Commuter

    July 24, 2017 /

    He was already asleep when I boarded. Head bowed, earphones in, hands gently clasped over a leather bag as if the weight of his entire week rested beneath his fingers. The sun had just begun to bleed through the train window—flat and indifferent—casting the kind of unflattering, directional light that most photographers instinctively reject. But I didn’t. I raised my phone and shot. This isn’t a grand composition. It’s quiet. Framed tightly, perhaps even uncomfortably so, with the seat backs hemming in the edges and drawing the eye into the compact geometry of his body folded forward. The line of the armrest cleaves the image horizontally, a visual interruption that…

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    Faces in the Façade: A Ghostly Smile in Stone

    November 15, 2014

    Dreaming of a Lancia Delta Martini…

    March 24, 2013

    A Weird Fujifilm Battery Issue for X-series cameras

    December 2, 2019
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Three Legged?

    July 21, 2017 /

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    A Fujifilm X-E1 Annoyance

    April 15, 2014

    Overexposed?

    March 14, 2013

    The Financial Times at Night

    October 1, 2016
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Gary O’ Toole

    July 15, 2017 /

    Photographing live music is an exercise in timing, anticipation, and luck — and this frame of Gary O’Toole behind his kit captures all three in motion. I shot this during a concert where the energy on stage was matched only by the enthusiasm in the audience. Gary, in his element, was caught mid-expression, the sort of look that comes only when a musician is entirely at one with his instrument. Compositionally, the image works through a layered perspective: the guitarist’s back in the foreground leads the viewer’s gaze directly toward the drummer, framed by the gleaming brass of the cymbals and the forest of hardware. That over-the-shoulder view adds intimacy,…

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    Nick Beggs

    July 12, 2017

    Blowin in the Wind

    February 8, 2014

    Marianna D’ama – Live

    December 2, 2018
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Summer

    Nick Beggs

    July 12, 2017 /

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    Keep Out!

    November 30, 2019

    Just a soccer field… Part 2

    February 4, 2014

    Barbarians at the Gates

    September 21, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Nad Sylvan

    July 10, 2017 /

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    The Relentless Lawyer

    February 6, 2017

    Mistress Of Puppets

    April 30, 2017

    @ Mediterrean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Soccer Team (and a primer on sport-photography, part 4)

    October 3, 2015
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Summer

    Steve Hackett – Live@Teatro d’Annunzio

    July 8, 2017 /

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    Self-Defense

    July 27, 2013

    The Prisoner’s View from the Sospiri’s Bridge

    September 25, 2017

    Early Leave at Bruxelles-Midi

    March 23, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Addicted to (Nintendo) Switch

    July 6, 2017 /

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    A Hellish Look

    March 26, 2024

    An Unplausable Perspective

    May 6, 2014

    Hammer and Sickle

    April 27, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Summer

    Portrait of a Cosplayer

    July 3, 2017 /

    I shot this in a crowded open-air market during a cosplay event. No studio, no setup, just natural light and a quick pivot to catch the moment before the crowd closed back in. The subject stood out instantly—not just for the outfit, but for the commitment. Every element was deliberate: the scarlet coat, the black waistcoat buttoned to the collar, the oversized goggles perched over an expression of studied calm. And the hat—sharp, theatrical, finished with a red trim that echoed the coat. Stylised but not cartoonish. This wasn’t a costume; it was a persona. I composed tightly to focus on the mid-frame, letting the subject fill the space without…

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    A Seagull

    May 10, 2021

    Becoming a Human Tripod

    January 9, 2017

    Fancy a Beer?

    November 10, 2015
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Waiting for the Shinkansen – 2

    June 30, 2017 /

    Tokyo Station is a place of constant movement, a rhythm of arrivals and departures so precise it borders on choreography. Yet, in the midst of this perpetual motion, there are moments of stillness — moments like this one. The young woman stands against a marble column, a vivid pink handbag in one hand, a green tea bottle in the other. The shinkansen, sleek and cream-coloured, is a quiet presence in the background, its windows reflecting the muted tones of the platform. Her gaze, directed somewhere past the camera, is calm yet unreadable — a mix of patience and expectation. From a compositional standpoint, the frame benefits from its vertical alignment.…

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    Vive La France, The Oslo’s Way

    October 7, 2014

    The Sinking Giant

    December 6, 2013

    @ Mediterrean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Soccer Team (and a primer on sport-photography, part 4)

    October 3, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Every Single Day

    June 28, 2017 /

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    A Dangerous Alley

    May 25, 2013

    Soldering

    November 8, 2021

    Inside an Old Gym

    February 16, 2015
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