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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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    Photography and the Importance of a Proper Training

    April 23, 2024

    Game Over

    April 15, 2022

    What Lasts of A Workbench

    February 22, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The three musket(b)eer

    May 11, 2013 /

    Guess who’s Porthos?

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    Wet Socks

    July 19, 2014

    Dreaming Of Giulietta (sprint)

    September 24, 2014

    Cold Freezing Tour Through Oslo’s Fjord

    October 4, 2014
  • 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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    Lost Bag

    December 8, 2016

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014

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

    May 13, 2022
  • 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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    Shooting Kite Surfing

    September 22, 2024

    Lost in Another World

    March 17, 2014

    Black Cat

    October 31, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013 /

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    Portrait of a Law Professor (and Free Climber…)

    February 26, 2016

    Nittele Tower

    April 25, 2022

    Fast Drivers in Via del Tritone

    October 31, 2019
  • 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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    Ready for lunch

    September 2, 2014

    Washed

    November 22, 2015

    Pillars

    January 29, 2015
  • 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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    Lost in mumbling

    September 22, 2013

    Avid Readers

    August 17, 2013

    Missed Airplane

    December 4, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013 /

    No News, Good News.

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    Collision Path

    July 5, 2019

    Waiting For A Customer To Come

    July 27, 2014

    The Mystique of Film

    August 24, 2022
  • 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 Skateboarder

    November 23, 2021

    MARTian Stairs

    March 25, 2026

    Windows

    September 15, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013 /

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    Afternoon’s Mumbling

    August 27, 2013

    When the day is gone

    April 4, 2013

    5 frames exploring the Sporting Gun Culture in Italy

    April 15, 2025
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013 /

    When craftmanship meets art.

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    Old Rolls, Immortal Style

    August 12, 2019

    The Sorcerer

    March 15, 2026

    What, IMO, Street-Photography Is All About – One Shot Story

    November 9, 2025
  • 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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    Easy Parking

    August 12, 2013

    Mid-Morning Break at Place Jourdan

    March 24, 2014

    A Rusted Window

    September 11, 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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    Steve Hackett – Live@Teatro d’Annunzio

    July 8, 2017

    Floating Flower

    May 19, 2015

    School of Mathematics@Sapienza University of Rome

    November 10, 2018
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013 /

    enjoying some fruit.

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    Too Young to Spend Time Watching the Ducks in the Pond

    October 22, 2013

    Supporter or Photographer?

    March 21, 2013

    José Ignacio Franco – Live@Auditorium Petruzzi

    July 31, 2022
  • 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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    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016

    The Taste Master

    March 2, 2014

    An Old Boxing Gym

    February 22, 2016
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013 /

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    The Suit

    July 15, 2013

    Lost in iPhone while the wind blows

    January 23, 2013

    A jam in via Alessandria

    December 8, 2023
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013 /

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    The Straycat

    December 3, 2013

    A Ryanair Aircraft

    August 21, 2018

    How Nissan Crossing Has Changed Over Time

    December 1, 2025
  • 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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    Nagasaki Biker

    February 13, 2024

    The Day of the Zombies

    October 23, 2016

    Ceci N’Est Pas Une Junior (or, Cognitive Dissonance – Part Two)

    December 12, 2025
  • 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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    Waiting for the Shinkansen – 1

    June 25, 2017

    A young Iron Maiden fan

    April 8, 2013

    The Porter

    July 3, 2015
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Shade of Berlin

    April 23, 2013 /

    … Jeff, Berlin.

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    Line Of Fire

    July 6, 2014

    Holding Against the Tide

    December 11, 2013

    The Stroller

    July 7, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  People

    Knocking on lion’s door

    April 22, 2013 /

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    Not AI-made…

    September 17, 2022

    5 Frames with various cameras – Ferrari On The Road(s)

    February 22, 2025

    A Hellish Look

    March 26, 2024
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Roman Break

    April 21, 2013 /

    The light was harsh that day in Piazza di Spagna, shadows cutting deep, reflections flaring off windshields and stone. I was walking without intent, Leica in hand, when I noticed these two men — coachmen, likely — parked in the shade of their own carriage, deep in conversation. Their posture was telling: relaxed, inward-facing, close without being performative. Whatever was being said wasn’t for anyone else. It was a moment of pause between tourists, an honest interruption in a day spent performing a role. The scene called for monochrome. Colour would have distracted from the shapes and lines — the interlocked limbs, the glint off the bridle, the folds in…

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    The Expired Film Series – Episode 1 – Kodak BW400CN – Dec. 2014 shot in June 2023

    July 21, 2023

    A Modern Orpheus

    November 24, 2015

    Life, the Universe and Everything

    July 28, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Still Together

    April 20, 2013 /

    Still together, like the very first day. I saw them before they saw me — leaning slightly towards each other, their posture neither rigid nor slouched, but comfortably suspended in the shared gravity of the table between them. The wine glasses, half-filled with rosé, spoke of time already spent; the unopened bottle on the side suggested more still to come. From a compositional standpoint, I worked with the geometry of the setting — the square table, the vertical lines of the wall, and the quiet interruption of the stone column — to anchor the frame. The couple sit on opposite sides, yet the line of sight between them is unbroken,…

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    Before The Match

    October 20, 2014

    Still Ruling The Empire

    February 5, 2022

    Garbage Collection

    August 26, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    The missing guest

    April 19, 2013 /

    This image unfolded quietly, almost too politely — three men in jackets and ties sitting at a table clearly set for four. The elegance of the setup, from the pressed tablecloth to the carefully arranged centrepiece, clashes subtly with the anticipation suspended in their posture. Nobody makes eye contact. One reads the menu, the others look downward, pretending focus. The empty chair becomes the central subject without needing to move. Framing was tight on purpose. I let the olive oil bottle in the foreground stand, blurring into obscurity and giving some depth and texture to an otherwise sharply focused core. That slight intrusion also reinforces the perspective: I wasn’t part…

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    March 9, 2021

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    April 6, 2026

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