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  • 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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    Thirsty

    June 10, 2014

    Urban Desolation

    September 18, 2014

    Same Space, Different Worlds

    October 18, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Just a soccer match…

    May 15, 2013 /

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

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    Pillars

    January 29, 2015

    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013

    Rockabilly

    September 15, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo

    A Master Luthier in his lab…

    May 14, 2013 /

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    While the kids grow-up…

    July 25, 2013

    Bent

    April 21, 2014

    The Bored Bassman

    March 16, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013 /

    To seat or no to seat?

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    Shooting a Roller Derby Bout

    November 19, 2024

    Glancing Books In A Brussels’Night

    November 12, 2015

    Much Too Powerful a Knock…

    June 3, 2014
  • 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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    An Exercise in Composition (was: Rowing Boats)

    February 18, 2024

    Sun Worshipers

    January 3, 2022

    The Seagull’s Rest

    December 18, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The three musket(b)eer

    May 11, 2013 /

    Guess who’s Porthos?

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    Portrait of a Politician – 2

    June 15, 2014

    While the kids grow-up…

    July 25, 2013

    Garbage As Usual – Pantheon’s Nearby

    October 4, 2019
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    In the backstage

    May 10, 2013 /

    There’s a kind of quiet tension in the way they lean against the wall. No people in sight. No instruments visible. Just the outlines of music, sleeping inside their forms. As a photographer, that’s the kind of silence you try to listen to. The room was dark, lit only from one side. The light caught the curve of one case and slipped off the edge of the other. Texture came forward. Shape. Memory. You could almost hear the faint creak of clasps, the echo of strings long since gone quiet. Sometimes the most expressive shots come when nothing is happening. No performance, no sound—just the pause in between. These cases…

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    Without Glasses @ via del Corso

    January 25, 2016

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 7 – Kodak Portra 160 – June 2015 shot in Oct. 2023

    January 11, 2024

    A ghostly bystander

    September 21, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops

    A party that shall never come

    May 9, 2013 /

    A dress and a bag waiting to be sold. Will the party ever take place?

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    Square One

    June 17, 2014

    @Rome Maker Faire – 2

    October 10, 2014

    Out for a ride…

    January 2, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013 /

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    MARTian Stairs

    March 25, 2026

    Zebra Crossing

    March 14, 2014

    A young Iron Maiden fan

    April 8, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Tables and Chairs, at Night

    May 7, 2013 /

    I was drawn to the repetition in this scene — a narrow path lined with tables and chairs, each set lit by a pool of light from the wall-mounted lamps. The rain had just stopped, and the wet stone reflected the glow, creating a subtle tonal contrast that runs like a silver ribbon through the composition. I chose to frame it at an angle that emphasises the recession into darkness, the line of tables pulling the viewer’s eye deeper into the image. The rhythm is regular but not mechanical; the slight variations in chair placement and the occasional break in symmetry prevent it from feeling sterile. The lamps provide natural…

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    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013

    Skating on the Riviera

    November 9, 2018

    Floating

    October 7, 2023
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    A chat on a lake shore

    May 6, 2013 /

    Countless photos like that have been shot. But enjoying a good moment together always deserves to be recorded

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    A Sad Cat in a Neko Cafè

    August 5, 2018

    A party that shall never come

    May 9, 2013

    Old Rolls, Immortal Style

    August 12, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013 /

    No News, Good News.

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    Wonder… Wall

    June 8, 2021
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    A stupid quarrell

    April 7, 2013

    Shopping in Bruxelles

    December 20, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Fantozzi’s chairs

    May 4, 2013 /

    They look innocent enough — two soft, shapeless seats next to a rattan table, tucked under a wall in some coastal bar. But the title gives it away: Fracchia’s Chairs. And if you know the name, you know exactly what kind of scene this is. Giandomenico Fracchia, as played by Paolo Villaggio in the 1970s, was the tragicomic soul of bureaucratic Italy: servile, stammering, utterly at the mercy of authority. There’s a legendary sketch in which he’s being questioned by his boss — unable to sit still on a chair so round and formless it’s practically a trap. And here it is again, reimagined in polyurethane and branded with Nastro Azzurro. The…

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    A Composition’s Dilemma in Black and White

    February 18, 2026

    Lightspeed

    August 6, 2015

    Stantsted Lounge’s Chairs

    December 31, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013 /

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    Blob

    January 4, 2014

    Where Did I Left My Car?

    April 2, 2015

    An Early Morning Fishing Expedition

    July 29, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013 /

    When craftmanship meets art.

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    Out Of Focus, Once More

    October 6, 2014

    Deadly Bored

    January 6, 2020

    Thirthy years behind…

    April 6, 2013
  • 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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    Chasing Rainbows on the Open Road

    October 13, 2021

    Pino Ammendola – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio@Teatro Marrucino

    May 13, 2022

    Life Within the Post Office

    November 24, 2014
  • 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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    Crowd Control

    February 14, 2016

    Portrait of a Gunsmith

    February 24, 2016

    Cupido’s Fall

    June 2, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013 /

    enjoying some fruit.

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    Sting of the Vespa

    March 7, 2025

    Quis Custodiet…

    January 26, 2013

    Unkempt

    December 4, 2015
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Waiting for the goal

    April 28, 2013 /

    Why can’t I enjoy my soccer team’s match instead of wasting my time here? Because my wife loves music…

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    Sideways Through the Tunnel

    April 5, 2013

    Urban Desolation

    September 18, 2014

    Photography Does Not Exist (Until the Eye Makes It)

    March 28, 2026
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013 /

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    How to Shoot Handball Matches

    April 14, 2024

    The Bodyguard in Red

    April 13, 2014

    Behind the Quirinale: Order After Dark

    January 23, 2026
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013 /

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    Room 17 – VIXI

    March 27, 2015

    Life is a bitch

    May 22, 2013

    The Last Icecream?

    October 30, 2013
  • 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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    Under the Yellow Umbrella

    March 9, 2013

    A Casual Walk

    March 6, 2015

    Red Curtains

    August 28, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

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

    April 24, 2013 /

    You don’t photograph a legend. You try not to get in the way. This frame is all rhythm, no fanfare. No face, no spotlight—just hands, sticks, cymbals, and breath held between beats. It’s Horacio “El Negro” Hernández in concert, but not in the way the audience sees him. This is closer. Quieter. The private side of percussion. Shot just beneath the hi-hat, I framed the photo to let the hand speak: fingers curled not in tension, but in dialogue. The skin slightly worn, the grip half-visible—mid-phrase, mid-flow. The cymbals catch the stage light like the faintest of brushstrokes, shimmering but not stealing the scene. You can feel the groove here.…

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    Up from the Waterline

    December 3, 2016

    Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)

    December 19, 2024

    Ugo Pagliai – Romeo e Giulietta@Teatro Marrucino

    March 29, 2022
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Shade of Berlin

    April 23, 2013 /

    … Jeff, Berlin.

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    Flashes’ Forgotten Powersuits

    April 11, 2014

    Table Dressing

    July 15, 2015

    Just A Cat

    June 29, 2014
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