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  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Spring

    Waiting for the Justice to Arrive

    March 11, 2013 /

    In this hallway of the Tribunale Penale di Roma, time seems suspended. Lawyers sit or stand, briefcases at their feet, bundles of files in hand. Some engage in hushed conversation, others review notes with ritualistic precision. A woman in red draws the eye—a rare burst of colour in an otherwise subdued palette of solemnity. The title, Waiting for the Justice to Arrive, operates on two planes. On the surface, it is procedural. The court has not yet opened its doors; the judge is late, the hearing is postponed. These legal professionals must simply wait—idle, static, alert. Justice, here, is both person and principle: the judge must enter the courtroom for proceedings…

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    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Wrestling, Italy vs France (And a primer on sport photography – Part 5)

    October 9, 2015

    Man in Trenchcoat

    November 20, 2021

    Horizontal

    March 14, 2015
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Chitchat under the rain

    March 10, 2013 /

    every moment is the right one, to enjoy a friendly conversation.

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    Windows XVIII … Century

    February 27, 2014

    A perfect match

    February 1, 2013

    Skating on the streets of Milan

    October 4, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Spring

    Under the Yellow Umbrella

    March 9, 2013 /

    It had just stopped raining—just enough to make the pavement shine, but not enough to fold away the umbrellas. I took this photo in passing. No setup, no waiting. Just a quiet moment shared by two people walking slowly, pushing a shopping trolley and carrying a red bag, both tucked under a loud yellow Bardahl-branded umbrella. The kind of umbrella you don’t buy, but are given somewhere and end up using forever. There’s nothing dramatic here. No grand gesture. Just two people—maybe a couple, maybe not—navigating a wet day together. The colours caught me: the dull browns, the muted jackets, that flash of red, and of course the umbrella. It…

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    Thirsty

    June 10, 2014

    Coats

    March 19, 2023

    When We Were Kids

    August 18, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    The sentinel…

    March 8, 2013 /

    … hawkeye!

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    How to (Unconventionally) Shoot Track and Field Competitions

    July 30, 2024

    A moment of break…

    February 22, 2013

    Portrait of a Wrestler

    October 27, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Bored

    March 7, 2013 /

    … why go to dinner together, just to enjoy a boring night?

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    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014

    The Silent Geometry of a Trabocco

    December 22, 2022

    Nad Sylvan

    July 10, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Shops

    The Last Puff, Before the Kitchen Opens

    March 6, 2013 /

    He leans into the corrugated shutter like it’s the only stable thing in his world. Dressed in pristine whites, but already marked by the day’s fatigue, this cook steals a few quiet moments with his cigarette and his phone. The street is empty, the restaurants still closed, and everything about the frame holds a soft tension—the pause before the fire and oil, the clang of metal, and the heat of service. What struck me first was the geometry. The vertical roll-up doors, the receding line of storefronts, the bricks underfoot—all form a corridor that isolates him visually and narratively. I composed slightly off-centre to echo the disconnection between his world…

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    Seeking Directions – Where Do I Go From Here?

    September 10, 2013

    Portrait of an Heavy Metal Singer

    November 21, 2013

    Strolling in Stockholm

    July 4, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    The Alchoolist’s garbage

    March 5, 2013 /

    …

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    An Old School Workstation

    September 12, 2014

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    November 19, 2014

    Waiting for the Shinkansen – 2

    June 30, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Lonely cart

    March 4, 2013 /

    … of a potato manic

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    Stadio Olimpico, seen from Tribuna Monte Mario

    October 1, 2022

    Zebra Crossing

    March 14, 2014

    Before The Match

    October 20, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    None of my business…

    March 3, 2013 /

    Two local police agents try to block an African guy because of the CD he was supposedly selling. But this is none of our business…

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    Shoes’ Meeting in Corso Vittorio

    March 12, 2014

    Alessandro Blasioli – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio@Teatro Marrucino

    May 9, 2022

    Gary O’ Toole

    July 15, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Enough…

    March 2, 2013 /

    The man in the blue windbreaker is not just leaning on a railing — he’s leaning on a lifetime. I caught him mid-pause, his posture tilted forward yet anchored, as if he had been running but something — or perhaps nothing — made him stop. Behind him, others drift along the walkway, anonymous shapes in dark jackets, contrasting with his bright, almost defiant blue. Compositionally, I wanted the railing to serve as a visual guide, leading the viewer’s eye from the man into the horizon, creating a kind of bridge not just in space but in thought. The diagonal sweep of the barrier, with its graffiti and padlocks, speaks of…

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    The New Church

    May 13, 2014

    Matching Nails

    September 18, 2017

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    June 13, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    The Scooter

    March 1, 2013 /

    Trying to run faster than its shadow.

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    The Long Way Up

    March 25, 2013

    Moon, hand-held

    April 30, 2021

    Seeking Directions – Where Do I Go From Here?

    September 10, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Who’s Carrying Who?

    February 28, 2013 /

    When I spotted the man hauling this enormous red buoy, I didn’t hesitate. The irony was irresistible—a question of balance, effort, absurdity, and metaphor all in one frame. The netted lines clinging to his shoulders mirrored the posture of a beast of burden, and yet the visual punchline lands clearly: who’s really pulling whom? I shot from above, not just for vantage but to strip away all unnecessary background clutter. By doing so, I let the geometry speak. The diagonal created by the rope lines contrasts with the rigid, blocky paving and soft curve of the buoy. It’s a clean visual split, but not sterile. There’s dirt, grit, marks of…

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    November 11, 2016

    Another Bridge

    September 23, 2019

    A Contemporary-Art Installation?

    March 31, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A videographer…

    February 27, 2013 /

    … or a human sundial?

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    A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s

    February 4, 2016

    A kiss in the shade

    March 17, 2013

    The Heart Of Giulietta

    October 30, 2014
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    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013 /

    told himself the seagull.

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    The perfect ski outfit

    March 12, 2013

    The BatFire

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    March 29, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    The Real Street Photographer: Bold and Fearless

    February 25, 2013 /

    I was walking along the seafront when this little scene unfolded: two women, a dachshund, and a child armed with a compact camera. No hesitation, no awkwardness — he simply stepped into the moment and claimed it, directing his subjects with the quiet authority only the very young can get away with. It was pure, unfiltered street photography, stripped of the adult self-consciousness that so often blunts spontaneity. Technically, the light was harsh, the midday sun cutting strong shadows across the paving and lending the image a slightly brittle feel. The Leica M9, with its CCD sensor, tends to emphasise contrast in such conditions, and here it works in my…

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

    April 24, 2013

    Venditti&DeGregori – Live@Anfiteatro La Civitella

    August 11, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A promenade

    February 24, 2013 /

    … in a forbidden place.

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    Shooting an Outdoor Volleyball Match

    June 19, 2025

    Planetarium

    May 30, 2015

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    July 1, 2014
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Business people in Rome

    February 23, 2013 /

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    October 1, 2023

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    April 9, 2014

    A Spanish Long Jumper

    September 11, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A moment of break…

    February 22, 2013 /

    I made this image at a street market in central Italy, just as the vendors were preparing for the day ahead. It was early, cold, and the air smelled of roasted chestnuts and diesel from delivery vans. These two stood silently, each holding a small cup—likely coffee—while surrounded by synthetic softness still wrapped in plastic. Quilts, towels, fleece. The kind of items whose colour is always a little too bright under cloudy skies. Technically, the shot is far from pristine. It’s handheld, slightly out of focus at the edges, and not particularly well exposed. But I’m not sorry. What it lacks in clinical sharpness it gains in truth. This wasn’t…

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    January 21, 2015

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    June 17, 2015

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    January 9, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Smoke is everywhere…

    February 21, 2013 /

    and is here to stay.

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    December 14, 2016

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    November 13, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    No time for lunch at Piazza Fiume …

    February 20, 2013 /

    It was the shadow that pulled me in first—mine, cast sharply onto the boot of the car, creeping into the scene like an unwanted narrator. Midday sun can be harsh, unforgiving, but here it helped slice the moment cleanly into layers: man, car, street, façade. Rome, in its winter light, does this beautifully—sculpts with sun rather than bathing in it. The man was absorbed, cigarette in one hand, eyes squinting into the curbside distance. His posture wasn’t idle. It was tight, waiting. The shoulder bag pulled across his frame like a restraint. The frame itself is compressed—everything close, tight to the lens, from the Mercedes emblem to the man’s jacket…

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    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014

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    April 23, 2024

    Landed

    December 19, 2013
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Waiting for the hearing

    February 19, 2013 /

    This frame came together in the sort of courtroom stillness that doesn’t need silence to be loud. Everyone in the picture has a role, but the image doesn’t tell you who’s who — and that’s the point. Decades ago, a robe or a tie might have done the job. Now, visual cues have flattened, and that ambiguity became the soul of this shot. None of the are defendants, though… Shot handheld with available light, the scene is dominated by the warm glow of the wood table, contrasting with the impersonal office light spilling from above. That warmth helps soften the harsh institutional lines, drawing the viewer’s eye toward the hands…

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    March 18, 2014

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    September 2, 2014

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    April 2, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome,  Shops

    Lunchtime

    February 18, 2013 /

    It’s cold. But for a while, better stay outside.

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    Fancy a Beer?

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    A Different Passion…

    June 12, 2016

    Boat Maintenance At Genova’s Porto Antico

    July 30, 2014
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    It’s always the right time

    February 17, 2013 /

    … to light a cigar.

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    November 2, 2015

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    October 6, 2013
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Projects,  Rome

    Alive Or Not?

    February 16, 2013 /

    It’s a fraction of a gesture—half a figure, half a scene, the rest left to suggestion. The photograph wasn’t staged; I caught it walking past a mirrored office entrance. A man stood statue-still in the morning light, the crisp shirt collar slightly rumpled, his cardigan misaligned, tie pulled just a bit too tight. And in his hand, a cigarette—not lit, not smoked, merely held. Suspended. That detail alone tilted the entire scene into ambiguity. Technically, the image relies heavily on contrast—natural, unforgiving light from the left collides with deep shadows on the right. The tonal division reinforces the emotional ambivalence. It’s clean, yes, but harsh. The edges of the shirt…

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    May 29, 2013

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    June 1, 2015
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