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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Summer

    Trento, After Dark

    June 23, 2013 /

    There’s a plaque on the wall behind them—honouring soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, fallen in a war a hundred years gone. But they’re not looking at that. Instead, three boys sit shoulder to shoulder on a wooden bench, huddled around a glowing Apple logo. A little too bright for the square. The light falls on their faces the way a fire once would have. They’re focused, not speaking much. Two watch the screen; one taps at his phone. Nobody’s in a rush. This is Trento at night: limestone façades, uneven cobbles, Mediterranean shrubs in planters, and now Wi-Fi in the air. The square is mostly empty. Just a few benches,…

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    A Zeppelin in The New York Sky

    July 2, 2014

    Zeiss ZM Biogon 35/2 and Nikon Z5. An Empirical Field Test

    January 12, 2026

    Too Busy to Enjoy the Life…

    April 12, 2014
  • Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    Nightlife

    June 20, 2013 /

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    The First Picture of the Year

    January 5, 2019

    Lightblade

    September 6, 2013

    In a yellowtone…

    September 17, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    Trick or Treat?

    June 14, 2013 /

    Trick or Treat. Smell my feet. Give me something good to eat.

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    A Seagull

    May 10, 2021

    Under the Heat Of Rome…

    June 26, 2018

    Lost Cigarettes at Piazza Affari

    January 22, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Projects,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    The Spinners

    June 13, 2013 /

    I want to ride my bycicle…

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    Nightlife in Bruxelles

    June 27, 2014

    The Way Out

    October 20, 2013

    Close up of an Ethnic Chessboard

    September 1, 2018
  • B&W,  Cities,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Projects,  Rome

    Behind The Shaft

    June 1, 2013 /

    Taken from inside one of those old Roman elevators—small, slow, caged in iron. The kind you find tucked into the corner of a 19th-century palazzo, where the wood creaks and everything smells faintly of dust and time. This photo looks outward, through the gate. But in a way, it also looks inward. The gridded metal frame keeps your focus close. The world beyond is blurred just enough to feel distant. Stairs curve down somewhere out of view. The light is natural, soft, diffused. The rest is silence. There’s no action here. No drama. Just the texture of the old ironwork, hand-forged patterns now worn smooth by a hundred years of…

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    Where Are Skilifts Supposed to Be?

    January 7, 2017

    A creative approach to zone focusing with superfast manual lenses and mirrorless cameras in street photography

    September 28, 2024

    Under the Heat Of Rome…

    June 26, 2018
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Parks,  Seasons,  Spring

    Rest under a tree

    May 31, 2013 /

    Resting under a tree, on a sunny afternoon, in springtime.

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    Luck is an Attitude

    January 25, 2014

    Silent Reader

    July 17, 2016

    Man in Trenchcoat

    November 20, 2021
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    A Dangerous Alley

    May 25, 2013 /

    A parking entrance at night. A dangerous place.

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    Not A Rorschach Inkblot

    December 24, 2017

    Even

    July 9, 2016

    Too Busy to Enjoy the Life…

    April 12, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Urban Landscape,  Works

    Life is a bitch

    May 22, 2013 /

    Sunday morning. Scorching sun. A work to be done on time. Life is a bitch.

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    Silent Reader

    July 17, 2016

    Run Like Hell, Pinocchio!

    February 24, 2015

    Why on Earth people, in Italy, still eat junk food?

    January 16, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks

    What (or Who) Are These Hangs For?

    May 21, 2013 /

    Shot under the sharp midday sun, this image was never meant to soothe. The rope nooses hanging beneath the Egidi bridge in Lazio weren’t installed for dramatic effect—at least, I assume not—but the visual reads like a theatre of unease. Their symmetrical placement across the frame, knotted with intention, stirs something more than curiosity. I took the photo from a boat, drifting slowly beneath the bridge’s concrete weight. The water was still, though not glassy—its murky green caught just enough reflection to add texture. Compositionally, the image divides into thirds almost intuitively: the river below, the ropes suspended in the centre, and the man-made bridge above. The eye bounces between…

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    Ni

    January 26, 2014

    Interplay

    December 22, 2016

    The Wild Bunch

    September 30, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Urban Landscape,  Works

    The last flower

    May 20, 2013 /

    The concrete is coming. How long will the last flowers stand?

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    A Zeppelin in The New York Sky

    July 2, 2014

    Unkempt

    December 4, 2015

    A jam in via Alessandria

    December 8, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    Footprints

    May 19, 2013 /

    is it an oil painting, or is it for real?

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    Meaningless

    November 9, 2013

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

    February 11, 2026

    Italy, Landscape Photography and the Law

    January 23, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Seasons,  Spring

    Love is like a flower

    May 18, 2013 /

    Love is like a flower, Both need care and attention to grow, Both die if not fed, Both don’t last forever.

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    Negrita’s Cover Band

    September 19, 2013

    The Waiting

    December 23, 2012

    Is This Smoke?

    August 15, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    Couples

    May 17, 2013 /

    Two couples in a square. One seeks rest, the other, food.

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    Rockabilly

    September 15, 2013

    Portrait of a Judo Master

    November 14, 2013

    Lightblade

    September 6, 2013
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Urban Landscape

    When the parking’s lost

    May 16, 2013 /

    When the parking is lost, there’s only one solution.

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    Wasubot. A Stiff Organ Player@Tsukuba

    June 21, 2018

    A chat on a lake shore

    May 6, 2013

    Dark Cloud Over San Pietro

    August 27, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013 /

    No News, Good News.

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    Gliding Away

    December 21, 2021

    Friend or Foe?

    January 21, 2013

    Shoes’ Meeting in Corso Vittorio

    March 12, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013 /

    When craftmanship meets art.

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    Singers

    February 19, 2014

    A Focused (or Sad) Violinist

    December 17, 2016

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    February 6, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Streets&Squares

    A relic from the (recent) past

    April 30, 2013 /

    less than twenty years have gone, and a telephone boot looks like a relic from the Stone Age.

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    Tour Saint-Jacques, Standby

    March 27, 2014

    A young Iron Maiden fan

    April 8, 2013

    Full Moon

    September 30, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage

    What lasts after a party…

    April 25, 2013 /

    Shot the morning after a wet December night, this scene is an unfiltered inventory of what remains once the bodies disperse. Three bottles—two upright, one half-tucked behind an iron gate—stand in for the absent crowd. There’s no music left, no voices, no movement. Just rust, grime, and the fragile persistence of glass. I framed the shot to keep the human presence implied but never visible. The steps lead nowhere, the iron gate is firmly shut, and the graffiti—hastily sprayed in orange—reads only “KR”, ambiguous and unresolved. That felt important. The story here is incomplete by design. It invites conjecture, not clarity. Technically, this is a study in texture. The marble…

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    July 21, 2015

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    April 4, 2015

    Hanging Towels

    March 29, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  People

    Knocking on lion’s door

    April 22, 2013 /

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    July 23, 2016

    Paths of Life

    January 20, 2013

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    June 21, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Spring,  Streets&Squares

    Sideways Through the Tunnel

    April 5, 2013 /

    This photograph was taken in the last leg of a trip to Rome,  from inside my car while standing still because one of the many and usual traffic jam on the Tangenziale. I tried to have the road not to dominate the frame, fragmenting it, instead. A dark curve cuts through the image, separating two visual registers: the solid, static wall on the left and the receding tunnel of lights on the right. The image is less about travel than about perception while travelling. The motion blur and softness at the edges weren’t deliberate; they happened by chance. However, I like the result nonetheless. The photo would have felt dishonest…

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    Busy

    January 8, 2013

    A sample of the Carl Zeiss Jena 135/F4 Sonnar and a Fuji X-T3

    February 5, 2023

    A videographer…

    February 27, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage

    A lighter

    February 14, 2013 /

    …left for somebody to come, or hidden by someone who just left?

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    Red Curtains

    August 28, 2014

    Stinky Shoes

    June 3, 2015

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    December 24, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Street Markets,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Why on Earth people, in Italy, still eat junk food?

    January 16, 2013 /

    A cold night in an Italian piazza. The air carries the scent of roasted chestnuts, espresso, and wood smoke—but here, under the halo of fairy lights, the smell is unmistakably different. Oil. Sugar. Processed salt. A small crowd stands in front of a street cart, its bicycle frame weighed down with canisters, bags, and the faint hum of a generator. The vendor moves with practised speed, ladling batter, folding paper, handing over parcels of deep-fried comfort. The queue is patient, hands buried in pockets, eyes following the ritual as if it were part of the winter tradition. Beyond the cart, a carousel spins in soft blur, its music faint against…

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    May 18, 2013

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    January 13, 2013

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    February 2, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Summer

    My camera’s early test shots

    December 20, 2012 /

    Pictures with no specific “intent”. Just went to the docks and clicked around, to get an early feel of how does the camera work. Results: mixed feelings.

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    October 31, 2021

    5 frames with a Voigtländer Bessa R2, a Nokton 35/1,4 and a roll of an expired Kodak Portra 160

    July 11, 2024

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    August 20, 2014
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