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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Seasons,  Shooting,  Spring

    5 frames exploring the Sporting Gun Culture in Italy

    April 15, 2025 /

    Firearms and gun culture are a very sensitive issue. Privately owned weapons are associated to mass shooting and individual killings, street violence and law enforcement abuses. When confronted with the killing of innocent people, talk is cheap and it is perfectly reasonable to invoke restrictions and even outright bans. There are, however, many people who are not involved in ‘prepper’ or ‘zombie apocalypse is coming’ state of mind, and who only want to practice a sport or foster their interest in military history, mechanics or other types of knowledge related to building and handling of a weapon. So, whatever the view on the matter, from the absolute opposition to any…

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  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Shooting,  Summer

    Feuer

    July 10, 2021 /

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  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Seasons,  Shooting

    Servicing a Beretta 98FS

    October 13, 2019 /

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Shooting,  Spring

    The Score Keeper

    April 24, 2019 /

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Seasons,  Shooting,  Winter

    Servicing a Sig Sauer P226

    December 16, 2017 /

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Seasons,  Shooting,  Winter

    A Shooter

    December 8, 2017 /

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Shooting,  Winter

    Lost Bag

    December 8, 2016 /

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Shooting,  Sport,  Winter

    Before the Shot

    November 28, 2016 /

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Shooting,  Winter

    Argument on the Range

    November 7, 2016 /

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Shooting,  Spring

    The BatFire

    April 29, 2016 /

    A butterfly with wings of fire. 火の翼を持つ蝶

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Shooting,  Winter

    On the Range

    December 6, 2015 /

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fighters,  Shooting,  Spring

    Home on the Range

    May 17, 2015 /

    There’s a moment—right before the shot breaks—when everything else falls away. This frame captures that exact moment. The quiet before the concussion. The balance between intent and mechanics. Taken in a professional range under full control, it documents not violence, but discipline. Focus. Precision. The brass tells its own story: just-fired casings scattered like punctuation marks on the shooter’s rhythm. The rifle rests steady on a bipod—cold, functional, ready. The shooter’s hand is not tense, but deliberate. His chain bracelet glints faintly in the sterile light, an unexpected human contrast to the black polymer and steel. This isn’t combat. It’s not theatre. It’s a place where performance meets protocol. Where…

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