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  • Autumn,  Cars&Bikes,  Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Oslo

    A Taxi Night Fleet At Oslo’s Central Station

    September 26, 2014 /

    I took this frame at a moment of pure symmetry and friction. The way taxi lines form outside Oslo Central Station at night—almost militaristic in their discipline, yet each vehicle pulsing with its own colour rhythm—felt like an urban ballet set to the low hum of idling engines and the soft scuff of rubber on wet cobblestones. Technically, night shots like this are unforgiving. The cold light from the LEDs clashes sharply with the warmth of the taillights and the overhead sodium vapour glow, which is why I resisted neutralising the colour balance too much. The visual tension between the icy blue reflected on the left and the bleeding red…

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    Portrait of a (former) bike champion

    May 3, 2014

    Knowledge in the Atelier (or: The First Shot of 2026)

    January 1, 2026

    What Could I Do?

    April 18, 2016
  • Autumn,  Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo

    An Old Lady in Great Shape

    September 23, 2014 /

    There’s something about old cars that asks you to listen before you look. You don’t photograph them—you make their acquaintance. This shot was taken inside an Alfa Romeo Giulia. She’s a machine from another time, but she doesn’t wear her age like a burden. The patina on the steering wheel, the soft wear on the dashboard controls, the dusty glow on the gauges—they don’t speak of decay, but of use. Of stories lived in full throttle and long idles. I didn’t stage this frame. I simply opened the door and saw her waiting there in quiet elegance. The light slipped through the glass just enough to kiss the rim of…

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    Ceci n’est pas un cadre

    December 29, 2013

    Somewhere in Japan

    May 19, 2014

    A party that shall never come

    May 9, 2013
  • Autumn,  Bottles&Cups,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual

    Not A Photography Anymore

    September 22, 2014 /

    I approached this shot with the intention of exploring the point at which photography begins to lose its documentary role and drifts into the territory of constructed image-making. The Leica M9, with its CCD sensor, is unforgiving in its rendering of highlights, and here I chose to exploit that to push the tones far beyond their natural state. The result is an image that wears its artificiality openly. The composition is rigidly symmetrical: three vases, evenly spaced, under a line of metallic coffee pots and creamers. The symmetry is disrupted only by the interplay of colours — magenta, amber, and white — and the bold shadows they cast. These shadows…

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    A Quiet Evening

    June 26, 2013

    Lunchtime

    February 18, 2013

    Kudos to Ricoh

    February 8, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo

    An Off Duty Anchor

    September 21, 2014 /

    I photographed this anchor in bright sunlight, a massive piece of ironwork chained and set as a monument. What caught my attention, however, was not just the object itself but the casual intrusion of a beer bottle resting at its base. The contrast between permanence and ephemerality, between weight and disposability, was too striking to ignore. Compositionally, the frame is cropped tightly to remove distractions and place the focus squarely on the anchor’s texture and the bottle’s fragility. The dark chain arcs across the image, cutting a diagonal line that divides the weighty form. Against it, the amber glass sits small and almost ridiculous, yet it steals attention precisely because…

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    Through the Fog

    January 5, 2014

    The Silent Geometry of a Trabocco

    December 22, 2022

    Message Check Before Breakfast

    December 12, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Efesto’s New Production Line

    September 20, 2014 /

    Just behind the barbecue master, the heat rose sharply and the smoke thickened into a shifting wall. The man stood at the centre of it, absorbed in the intensity of roasting slices of lambs, his back straight, shoulders tight, arms moving with controlled force. There was no theatrical pose—only concentration. From this angle, the scene feels more like a workshop than a stage.

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    It’s always the right time

    February 17, 2013

    Late Night Conversation at Cardinal’s Wharf

    September 29, 2016

    Lost Cigarettes at Piazza Affari

    January 22, 2014
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Streets&Squares

    Via Collina, Empty, From Above

    September 13, 2014 /

    The perspective is vertical, as if leaning out and looking straight down. Cars line both sides of the narrow street, parked in strict succession, their roofs forming a patchwork of tones. The pavement and façades edge the scene, flattening into geometry under the camera’s angle. At the centre, however, the street itself is bare—an unexpected strip of emptiness in a crowded frame. Composition relies on symmetry and repetition. The rhythm of vehicles, rectangles of windows, and parallel lines of pavement create a structured grid. The lamppost, suspended on its wire, interrupts this order with a curve, offering a counterpoint to the rectilinear logic. Two pedestrians near the corner introduce scale,…

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    Lost In Barcelona’s Beauty

    June 13, 2014

    YANE – Yet Another Nepal Exhibit

    March 23, 2015

    Siamese Boats On the Seine River

    June 1, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks

    A Sailors’ Warehouse

    September 9, 2014 /

    I took this photograph inside a boathouse, looking down into a storage system built from large industrial pipes. What struck me immediately was the rhythm of repetition: the orange-red circles forming a grid, each cradling a piece of fabric, rope, or gear. Practicality drove the design, yet visually it became something else—an ordered chaos, a taxonomy of a sailor’s life. The top-down perspective was deliberate. Shooting directly overhead flattened the objects into patterns, stripping away depth in favour of geometry. It is a photograph about compartments and how objects settle into them. The symmetry of the circles is slightly broken by the irregular bulk of the bags and fabrics, which…

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    The Abused Balcony

    February 17, 2014

    Waiting For The Bus On Las Ramblas

    August 19, 2014

    A Nikon’s Portrait Made With a Fuji

    January 14, 2016
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo

    Autumn Leaves

    September 8, 2014 /

    There’s nothing particularly striking about this photo at first glance. Just a flower box tucked against a weathered wall. A few green leaves still stubbornly clinging on, others browned and curled, caught mid-fall. It’s the kind of street element you pass without noticing, or maybe glimpse and forget. And yet, it’s a portrait — not of a person, but of a moment in life. That in-between moment.When you’re no longer young, but not yet old.Not blooming, not dying. Just… suspended. There’s resilience in the remaining green, still pushing out colour despite the changing cycle. But there’s no hiding the signs of decline. Age creeps in at the edges first —…

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    A Cello Player

    April 24, 2017

    The sentinel…

    March 8, 2013

    Pentax k-5 And The Aquapack 458

    August 15, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    The Shoesfixer

    September 7, 2014 /

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    Busker and Covid-19

    January 26, 2021

    In praise of ‘cheap’ lenses for ‘pro’ works

    April 4, 2021

    Art Auction at Piazza Navona

    February 6, 2016
  • Autumn,  Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo

    The Lost Hotel

    September 5, 2014 /

    I photographed this derelict façade in an Italian town on a walk that started with no intention and ended with this frame. “Albergo Aterno,” barely legible beneath a coat of turquoise decay, is what’s left of a forgotten hotel. I didn’t need to know its history to feel the abandonment radiating from every peeled layer of plaster. The frame is pulled tight—the architecture becomes a subject in itself, the wires and conduit lines accidentally composing a crude symmetry that holds the chaos together. This isn’t a pretty picture, and that’s the point. The scene punishes clean aesthetics. Harsh light from the afternoon sun exacerbates the texture—flaking walls, rusted metal, and…

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    Yellow

    December 15, 2014

    No time for lunch at Piazza Fiume …

    February 20, 2013

    Waiting for the Shinkansen – 1

    June 25, 2017
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks

    Fishing Shelter Under The Bridge

    September 4, 2014 /

    Photographs like this one always pull me in—not for their glamour, but for their quiet, unvarnished truth. This image, titled Fishing Shelter Under a Bridge, captures a space that seems to exist on the fringes: part makeshift workspace, part refuge, part survival mechanism. The fishing net suspended in the frame is not the tool of a hobbyist, but a means to secure food, a reminder of the precariousness of life for some. From a compositional perspective, the photograph is anchored by a strong sense of depth. The viewer’s eye is naturally drawn from the shaded, cluttered foreground toward the brighter, open water and the moored boats in the distance. The…

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    Alone, Together…

    June 19, 2013

    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014

    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  OutOfFocus

    London Swash

    September 3, 2014 /

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    Just A Phone Call – 1

    February 18, 2015

    Hanging Heart at via Olmetto

    March 31, 2014

    Fujifilm X-Pro 2: Does It Worth It? (Lost In Via Del Corso)

    January 16, 2016
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Gates&Fences,  Past&Relics,  Social Control

    Caged?

    June 6, 2014 /

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    Evolution of a Guitar Player

    July 5, 2013

    The Shooter’s Dilemma

    July 12, 2014

    A Calm Person

    January 8, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Streets&Squares

    The 365th Shot: Between Sacred and Profane

    December 14, 2013 /

    “Between the Sacred and Profane” is the 365th picture that I’ve posted on this blog and it is the end of a one-year project where I made a point of publishing one picture per day. When, exactly 356 days ago, I decided to start I couldn’t imagine what would have been happened. I became deeply involved into exploring different genres and styles, covering big live events for a music magazine, cinema and arts awards ceremonies, street-photography, portraits, photojournalism and sport events. I went in for a couple of contests and started giving (for free, as I promised) seminars about the rights of the (street)photographers. Of course I don’t do photography…

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    A Modern Nazca?

    December 4, 2014

    A Grocery Store in Rome

    November 5, 2014

    A Different Passion…

    June 12, 2016
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Bookstores,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Remainders in Prati

    December 4, 2013 /

    No need to spend huge money,to have a good read. There’s a certain romance in a place where books are stacked so high they seem to form their own architecture. This remainder bookstore in Rome’s Quartiere Prati is one such space — an organised chaos where towers of paperbacks and hardcovers lean against each other like old friends, and the scent of yellowed pages lingers in the air. When I framed this photograph, I wanted to invite the viewer inside, to feel that they might squeeze through those narrow aisles and get lost in the labyrinth. The open doorway, flanked by bookstands spilling onto the pavement, works as a visual…

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    Caught In The Act… Almost

    October 4, 2018

    A Sad Harley-Davidson

    August 10, 2013

    Fast Food Loneliness in Nagoya…

    July 17, 2019
  • Autumn,  Beach&Shores,  Daily Video,  Landscape,  Rome

    Under the Bridge

    November 6, 2013 /

    Here I am again with a video…

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    Waiting To Board

    February 4, 2013

    Carl Zeiss Ultron 50/1,8 and Pentax K1 – An Empirical Field Test

    February 11, 2026

    An outdoor theatre?

    January 31, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    A Mysterious Bag

    November 2, 2013 /

    Big enough to contains a whole life…

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    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014

    A Silohuette on the Bridge

    March 3, 2014

    Guess who’s happier?

    May 27, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    A Fisherman in Rome

    November 1, 2013 /

    There is a quiet irony in standing on the banks of the Tiber, camera in hand, and seeing this scene unfold — a solitary fisherman, rod extended, gazing into the slow, opaque water. Just a few metres above, Rome hums and roars: scooters weave through traffic, tourists cluster at monuments, and shopkeepers call out in markets. Down here, however, time seems to flow at the river’s pace — unhurried, stubbornly indifferent to the world above. From a compositional standpoint, the photograph makes good use of negative space. The wide expanse of muted, silty water forms a calm, almost monotone backdrop that lets the figure of the fisherman stand out without…

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    Too Late

    April 10, 2015

    Siamese Boats On the Seine River

    June 1, 2014

    A Bridge

    September 22, 2019
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Shops,  Street Markets,  Tobacconists

    Next in line, please!

    October 31, 2013 /

    A disciplined and contemplative street photography shot captured with documentary precision. A quiet urban scene unfolds on a cobblestone street, framed by soft, overcast light. In the foreground, a stone bollard supports a small display of trinkets and souvenirs, sharply focused against the subdued blur of pedestrians and parked scooters. The muted palette and shallow depth of field evoke a cinematic stillness, contrasting motion and stasis, commerce and transience—an observation of everyday life

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    June 24, 2017

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    May 20, 2013

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    August 5, 2023
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    The Last Icecream?

    October 30, 2013 /

    I was drawn to the quiet anticipation layered between three figures, each framed by glass, glare, and gesture. The woman in the foreground, partially silhouetted in a hoodie, acts as the emotional anchor — patient, uncertain, her posture leaning subtly forward. She could be next, or just waiting. The man to her right, elderly, suited, stoic, exists in quiet counterpoint. And behind the counter, blurred yet bright, the server becomes an abstract suggestion of service or denial. It’s the moment before transaction — a gesture paused in the theatre of everyday life. Technically, the image is soft, and I’m fine with that. Focus falls more on atmosphere than detail. Depth…

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    God Save the Queen!

    September 6, 2014

    The BatFire

    April 29, 2016

    Staring At The Infinite

    August 22, 2013
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Projects

    Portrait of a young scholar

    October 28, 2013 /

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    The Skeptical Listener

    May 26, 2014

    Under the Yellow Umbrella

    March 9, 2013

    Make Sense (or: Meaning is in the Eye of the Beholder)

    October 10, 2025
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control

    Secret Beyond the Door

    October 24, 2013 /

    Who knows what they’re talking about?

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    Winter Leaves

    December 9, 2014

    The Compelling Power of Photography

    September 22, 2022

    The Ubiquitous Mobile

    July 14, 2016
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People

    Too Young to Spend Time Watching the Ducks in the Pond

    October 22, 2013 /

    … wait for the retirement, at least!

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    July 7, 2013

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    February 15, 2013

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    November 12, 2021
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People

    Tired or Fascinated?

    October 21, 2013 /

    Not so easy to tell… The question writes itself when you look at the scene. In the centre of the frame, a man stands before a long, textured painting. His arms are crossed, his head tilted slightly forward—posture locked in contemplation. The work before him, with its earthy tones and abstracted form, seems to have pulled him entirely into its orbit. He doesn’t glance away. In the foreground, two seated figures tell a different story. On the left, a woman in a red hoodie sits with a jacket draped across her lap, holding a booklet. Her gaze drifts outward, past the viewer, her expression suggesting the mental pause that comes after…

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    Perfectly Framed

    November 26, 2015

    Portrait of a Judo Master

    November 14, 2013
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