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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014 /

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    Scarf’s Meeting

    March 5, 2014

    Oops!

    July 4, 2014

    Just Another Piccadilly Circus’ View

    September 20, 2016
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People,  Winter

    Quality Check

    April 10, 2014 /

    Books are maybe the only good you can actually try before you buy. p.s. ETTR is harder than I thought without liveview or an EVF…

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    Is This Photo Illegal?

    March 20, 2014

    Posing

    June 17, 2022

    As much as you’re far from home…

    April 5, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Perfect Strangers

    April 5, 2014 /

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    Lunchtime

    February 18, 2013

    Workbench

    February 22, 2015

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

    April 24, 2013
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Visual,  Winter

    National Security

    April 4, 2014 /

    A danger for the National Security? This picture is nothing special, but for the fact that while I was taking it a security guard at the European Parliament tried to stop me on the “National Security” excuse, by claiming that photos were not allowed. Minding the lesson of “Stand your ground” I countered politely the requests of the guard, by telling him: – First: shooting in public spaces is perfectly legal, – Second: there where no “no-photos allowed” signs, – Third: “I am a lawyer and a journalist. I checked both EU and Belgian Law and find nothing that could prevent me to do what I am doing. Could you…

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    The Stroller

    July 7, 2015

    Alone, Together…

    June 19, 2013

    Ten Years Ago

    December 22, 2022
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Skating on Avenue Louise

    April 1, 2014 /

    The architecture of Avenue Louise is built to impress — symmetrical, imposing, wrapped in glass and concrete. It speaks the language of power, efficiency, and institutional gravitas. Yet here, cutting across the uniformity of its grid, a lone skateboarder defies gravity and symmetry alike. In mid-air, suspended between takeoff and landing, the young skater rewrites the function of space. This plaza wasn’t designed for movement like his — spontaneous, raw, unruly — yet it hosts it with unexpected grace. The stark concrete façade becomes a backdrop, not a boundary. This is the city as canvas, the act of skating as resistance and reinterpretation. While others walk briskly from meeting to…

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    Andrea Monti

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

    December 14, 2014

    Wrecked Hull

    February 14, 2014

    Mediterranean Games 2009

    June 28, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Milan,  Winter

    Hanging Heart at via Olmetto

    March 31, 2014 /

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    Trust Us, We Care About You

    March 18, 2014

    Balilla

    July 17, 2015

    José Ignacio Franco – Live@Auditorium Petruzzi

    July 31, 2022
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Milan,  Winter

    A

    March 30, 2014 /

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    The SoundMaster

    July 10, 2013

    @Rome Maker Faire – 1

    October 9, 2014

    A new camera and the quest for the missed information

    December 18, 2012
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Winter

    Off-Duty Eurocrats in Bruxelles

    March 28, 2014 /

    Late afternoon at the European Parliament. The Eurocrats – now off-duty – come back to their human form.

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    Andrea Monti

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    A (Out-of-Focus) Break Between Lunch and Supper

    December 8, 2015

    Spectral Lotus

    July 19, 2015

    Ready For Lunch

    November 1, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Street Markets,  Winter

    Late for Lunch

    March 26, 2014 /

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    Fancy a Beer?

    November 10, 2015

    The Unresting Lawyer

    February 6, 2017

    Italy, Street-Photography and The Law – A Real Case

    October 3, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Early Leave at Bruxelles-Midi

    March 23, 2014 /

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    Menu Meditation

    February 16, 2018

    Coats

    March 19, 2023

    On the Edge of the World

    April 22, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Walking Table in via Cornaggia

    March 22, 2014 /

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    Buying Chocolate

    October 31, 2015

    Seats

    September 11, 2017

    The Skeptical Listener

    May 26, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography,  Winter

    Is This Photo Illegal?

    March 20, 2014 /

    Yes, if it were taken in Hungary. Against the European Convention of Human Rights, Hungary passed a law that by next March 15 will require any photographer shooting in public space to obtain a signed “model release form”. This provision will be bashed by either the EU Court of Justice or the European Court of Human Rights (for the very same reasons I explained here), but it will take time and – first of all – a photographer that sacrifices himself on the altar of freedom.  

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    The Watchdogs

    February 9, 2017

    The Coach

    December 9, 2018

    A Tree through the Fog

    January 5, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Relaxed Call at Boulevard du Palais

    March 19, 2014 /

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    A Standup Paddleboarder

    August 25, 2014

    Protezione Civile

    November 12, 2013

    Red Lock At Genova’s Dock Arsenal

    August 8, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  Social Control,  Winter

    Trust Us, We Care About You

    March 18, 2014 /

    This is a close-up of a banner hanging from the Prefecture de police, Paris, Rue de la citè. I don’t know why, but every time I hear a public power saying that he cares about me I feel a bit worried…                   — This is the Google Map link, currently displaying the complete image, and here is a screen capture, just in case:

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    An update on the poor Canon EOS-M autofocus

    March 30, 2013

    Garbage as usual@Pantheon’s nearby

    October 4, 2019

    Which Part of “No Smoking” Got You Lost?

    June 21, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Still Standing

    March 15, 2014 /

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    Leaving

    September 27, 2018

    Much Too Short a Ladder

    October 17, 2013

    No Tablet, No Problem

    April 12, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Zebra Crossing

    March 14, 2014 /

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    Sales Force

    January 28, 2016

    How to Shoot an Handball Match with a Film Camera

    May 25, 2024

    Hard work

    February 13, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Street Food in Via Salaria

    March 13, 2014 /

    A Chestnut Maker, making everything ready for another day of hard work.

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    Traffic Jam in Rome

    December 14, 2015

    Yin and Yang

    November 26, 2013

    Impatience

    February 6, 2013
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Reportage,  Rome,  Winter

    A Toilet of the Court of Rome

    March 11, 2014 /

    This is what you get when you need a toilet in the most important Italian Hall of Justice.

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    The Unresting Lawyer

    February 6, 2017

    School of Mathematics@Sapienza University of Rome

    November 10, 2018

    Late Night@Piazza San Babila

    March 9, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual,  Winter

    Stairway to Nothing

    March 9, 2014 /

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    Should I Seat?

    December 15, 2021

    Who is the mannequin?

    April 11, 2013

    Denegata Justitia

    March 2, 2020
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Stand-up, Sugar!

    March 8, 2014 /

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    Cold Night, Hot Drink

    January 13, 2014

    Waiting for the goal

    April 28, 2013

    Underground Security RA(T)P

    June 5, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Shadows&Lights

    March 7, 2014 /

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    Caparezza – Live@Palamaggetti Roseto degli Abruzzi

    February 12, 2018

    Portrait of a Fin Swimmer

    June 5, 2021

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Scarf’s Meeting

    March 5, 2014 /

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    Singers

    February 19, 2014

    Opposites

    February 3, 2013

    An Off Duty Anchor

    September 21, 2014
  • Daily photo,  Rome,  Winter

    Windows XVIII … Century

    February 28, 2014 /

    Old windows inside a building at Via del Governo Vecchio, Rome. No, Microsoft wasn’t around just yet…

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    Sting of the Vespa

    March 7, 2025

    Ghosts

    October 19, 2016

    Hanging Heart at via Olmetto

    March 31, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  Rome,  Winter

    An Inside Irongate

    February 26, 2014 /

    Inside and old building, in the heart of Rome.

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    Late-afternoon’s snack

    April 15, 2013

    Nagoya’s reportage featured in The Good Life

    October 29, 2020

    Lost in Another World

    March 17, 2014
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