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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control

    Get Ready for The Duty

    July 13, 2013 /

    Twilight hits differently in industrial spaces — it smooths the sharp angles and softens the glare of primary colours. This shot, taken just outside the Stadio Adriatico, finds a firefighter in quiet preparation while the world behind him begins to stir. The fire engine’s bold typography — VIGILI DEL FUOCO — is less a design element than a declaration, slicing across the frame in a defiant horizontal. I composed this frame to split the visual tension. On the right, a single man and a machine. On the left, a group of police officers huddled in conversation, their presence as much about routine as readiness. The stairs and monumental architecture climb…

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Everything is ready for the service

    July 2, 2013 /

    … but the attendees

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    Trick or Treat?

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    Leica Shop @ Strada Maggiore

    May 11, 2017
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    Hanging News

    June 18, 2013 /

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    January 16, 2016
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    Just a soccer match…

    May 15, 2013 /

    This is not an upcoming urban riot. Just a soccer match…

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    November 25, 2013

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  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Raus

    May 12, 2013 /

    I took this photograph on a quiet street where the stillness of the scene clashed violently with the venom of the message sprayed across the wall. The phrase, written in crude, hurried strokes, is not a remnant from some distant, darker chapter of history but a fresh reminder that intolerance continues to thrive. The frame is stripped of distraction: a textured wall, a single small window with broken panes, and the shadow of a streetlamp reaching across the surface. The composition leans heavily on the tension between emptiness and statement. Placing the graffiti off-centre allows the cracked window to act as a counterweight, both visually and metaphorically—two forms of damage,…

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  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Big Brother Enhanced

    May 1, 2013 /

    A theme park is engineered to feel frictionless: queues are managed, routes are channelled, behaviour is gently scripted. In this photograph made at Gardaland on Lake Garda that engineering is rendered with an unvarnished literalness. The frame isolates a small assemblage of infrastructure: a CCTV camera, a public-address speaker, and a utilitarian lighting unit, all bolted to a rough stone surface.

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