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Hard Choice In Quai de la Corse
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Relaxed Call at Boulevard du Palais
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Stand-up, Sugar!
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The Taste Master
Would you like to be in his place… at least once?
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The Angel Maker
There are some things you only find in Rome. Down a narrow street behind the Teatro di Pompeo, inside a studio that smells of dust, turpentine and time, I watched a man restoring angels. Not metaphorically—literally. Plaster cherubs laid out across the table, grey with primer, one mid-stroke under his steady brush. The place looked more like a reliquary than a workshop. And in a way, it was. He’s a master restorer. The kind of figure you expect in an old Fellini film, surrounded by faded tapestries, cracked frames, and gold leaf so fine it breathes when you exhale near it. But this wasn’t a scene. This was a day’s…
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Small Talk
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Luck is an Attitude
That’s an interesting catch. The Latin word for “luck” is “fortuna” that doesn’t mean “luck”, but “fate”. So I’d rather like to be, as an old aphorism from Appius Claudius Caecus says (“Fabrum esse quemque fortunae suae) the “builder of my own fate”.
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A Fashion Shop in Milan
In a fashion shop is always hard to tell the difference beween a model and a store clerk.
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Next Time, Maybe…
This is not the right moment to lunch outside. Maybe next time…
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A chocolaterie in Bruxelles
What an elegant chocolatier!
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Welcome in the New (?) Year
The year is new, but the job is same old. Work hard, earn your day.
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Ceci n’est pas un cadre
A few, different meanings. The most evident (?):it is a mirror, actually. Thus is not a peinture. The less evident: the title is a sleight of word on the famous Magritte’s masterwork “Ceci n’est pas une pipe“. The lesser evident: I shot the picture in Bruxelles, where is located the Magritte Museum.
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The Silent Listeners
Covent Garden, again. Like the music of Orpheus’Lyra, the voice of the singer brings back to life the lifeless mannequins.
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Behind the Beer
Behind the beer’s sockets, a barman discretely fulfills the order placed by his clients.
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Christmas Time at Covent Garden
Christmas is coming and people enjoy the spirit of the upcoming holiday.
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A Bookstore in the Gallery
Rue de la Madeleine. One of the many bookstores in Bruxelles that keep the culture of bookreading alive
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Remainders in Prati
No need to spend huge money, to have a good read.
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An Altar for the Propaganda Machine
A powerful weapon, that equally served the good and the evil.
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Next, please!
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The Last Icecream?
Hopefully there is still something left…
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Same Space, Different Worlds
Lost in their own business.
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The Chess Players
Well, this is not Alechin vs Capablanca but… who cares?
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An Intense Conversation
Some photographs hold silence. This is one of them. Shot in a small restaurant in Bruxelles — the kind you’d only find by chance, and never the same way twice — this frame preserves what no longer can be: a place, a conversation, a quiet evening at a table now vanished. Two women sit facing one another, generations apart, mirrored by the soft geometry of light and posture. One speaks — or perhaps listens. The other waits — or perhaps remembers. Their hands do most of the talking, resting, folding, rising to punctuate a point. There’s water on the table, a half-empty bottle, a flickering red votive. Nothing staged. Everything…
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Lost in mumbling