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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A videographer…

    February 27, 2013 /

    … or a human sundial?

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    The Man Behind The Croissant

    December 13, 2014

    Running On The (Oslo’s) Docks

    September 28, 2014

    Ramping Up

    September 16, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013 /

    told himself the seagull.

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    Hi-Tech Temptation

    June 27, 2015

    DSLR-like…?

    March 21, 2025

    Under The Bridge

    June 27, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A promenade

    February 24, 2013 /

    … in a forbidden place.

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    Common Fate

    November 15, 2013

    Run Like Hell, Pinocchio!

    February 24, 2015

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

    April 24, 2013
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Business people in Rome

    February 23, 2013 /

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    Nature gets its space back…

    November 7, 2018

    Before The Match

    October 20, 2014

    Americana Skating – Italian National Championship 2019

    February 4, 2019
  • 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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    Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g. The difference between Marketing and Reality in Image Quality

    January 24, 2021

    Under the Yellow Umbrella

    March 9, 2013

    Red Fan

    June 14, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Smoke is everywhere…

    February 21, 2013 /

    and is here to stay.

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    StreetPizza@Ueno Park

    August 4, 2018

    Time Runs Fast

    May 21, 2014

    At the theater, between two scenes

    June 15, 2015
  • 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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    The Score Keeper

    April 25, 2019

    HeadButt

    August 5, 2023

    The last flower

    May 20, 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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    The Smoker’s Golden Rule: A Coffee Always Calls a Cigarette

    July 9, 2013

    Conversation

    November 27, 2013

    Weren’t a Smartphone and a Selfie Stick Enough?

    October 6, 2016
  • 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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    2015 Italian Beach Volley Team – Marco Caminati, Enzo Rossi

    October 29, 2015

    Early Leave at Bruxelles-Midi

    March 23, 2014

    Mussels Underwater…

    August 23, 2014
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    It’s always the right time

    February 17, 2013 /

    … to light a cigar.

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    The Solitude of Power

    May 6, 2018

    The Skeptical Listener

    May 26, 2014

    When Venus Meets the Moon

    October 2, 2023
  • 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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    The Arson

    February 21, 2014

    Claws of Fire

    September 27, 2017

    Pillars

    January 29, 2015
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Street Photography

    The Ghost

    February 15, 2013 /

    There’s an almost cinematic eeriness to this image, as if the subject has just stepped out of one reality and into another. The woman, her red hair catching the muted afternoon light, stands mid-pavement with her back partially turned. Her black gloves, long coat, and still posture evoke a figure from another era — an apparition caught in a modern street. The muted colours of the cars and buildings behind her only serve to make her presence more striking. From a compositional standpoint, the frame is well balanced. The subject occupies the vertical centre-left, her figure breaking the dominant horizontals of the street and architecture. The crossing lines of the…

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    Masters of Propaganda

    July 18, 2023

    The Unconvinced Listener

    June 25, 2014

    The Score Keeper

    April 25, 2019
  • 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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    The New Church

    May 13, 2014

    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016

    Who Said That Music Is Relaxing?

    August 14, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Projects,  Restaurants&Bar,  Street Photography

    Multitasking

    February 10, 2013 /

    This frame is one of those candid catches where the absurd quietly sits inside the ordinary. Two men, mid-meal, are absorbed in their respective worlds: the one in the centre toggling between a phone call and a glass of wine, the other leaning forward in conversation. The table is cluttered with the civilised chaos of lunch — sparkling water, empty glasses awaiting purpose, a scattering of breadsticks. The composition is built almost like a play: the seated figures as protagonists, the window behind them acting as both set and light source. That window, however, is a double-edged sword. The strong backlight pushed the dynamic range to its limit, forcing me…

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    A Fisherman

    December 25, 2014

    She Died Alone

    February 15, 2022

    Shooting Italian 5 birilli

    May 18, 2025
  • Airport,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Projects,  Street Photography

    The Businessman…

    February 9, 2013 /

    Restless, waiting for the last flight to come back home.

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    Blackfriars Train Station Banner

    September 22, 2016

    Bent

    April 21, 2014

    What Does ‘Professional’ Mean in Photography?

    March 19, 2024
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Who dares…

    February 7, 2013 /

    … wins (for the non-English speakers, the sign says: “Danger: crossing, jumping, trespassing forbidden”)

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    A view of the Bologna’s Station

    April 28, 2019

    Beer or Spritz?

    November 1, 2019

    Much Too Short a Ladder

    October 17, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Impatience

    February 6, 2013 /

    In a hurry, while somebody else is late…

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    Has street-photography a limit?

    December 19, 2012

    A Street Dancer In Sakae

    August 9, 2019

    While the kids grow-up…

    July 25, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Generations

    February 5, 2013 /

    Generation after generation, the passion for the photography always lasts.

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    Unkempt

    December 4, 2015

    Street-Photographer’s eye side effect

    April 8, 2014

    The Day After The Tide

    December 12, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape

    Waiting To Board

    February 4, 2013 /

    I found this scene along a neglected stretch of riverbank—nothing curated, nothing arranged. A broken chair, its straw seat long unravelled, faced a decaying boat tethered loosely to the shore. They looked like they belonged to each other, equally abandoned, equally patient. The title came instantly. Not poetic, just accurate: Waiting to Board. The composition rests on tension—foreground versus background, texture versus reflection. The rope cuts a diagonal across the frame, literally tying the objects together. The chair leans slightly left, softened by rot and time, while the boat points right, cracked paint peeling toward the water. Neither is in motion, yet the whole image feels held in anticipation. Technically,…

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    Careful With That Bike, Eugene!

    July 29, 2013

    A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s

    February 4, 2016

    Italy, Landscape Photography and the Law – Part Two

    February 23, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    An Abandoned Book…

    January 28, 2013 /

    When I came across this scene, it struck me immediately as a still-life already composed by chance. There, on the coarse, sun-warmed pavement of a dock, lay a copy of Il Marchese di Villemer, its painted cover portrait staring off to the right with aristocratic detachment. A torn scrap of red foil—perhaps once wrapping for a sweet—sat nearby, an almost absurd counterpoint to the book’s refined image. From a compositional standpoint, the photograph is anchored by the bold horizontal yellow line running across the frame. This not only divides the image but also provides a visual base upon which the book rests. The warm tones of the line complement the…

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    Rectangles

    March 12, 2015

    Without Glasses @ via del Corso

    January 25, 2016

    The Oslo Opera House

    October 24, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Tough Enough

    January 27, 2013 /

    Winter light in Rome has a particular sharpness to it—crisp, but never cruel. I took this frame on one of those days when the air was cool enough to see your breath, yet the sun still carried the weight of the Mediterranean. The man in the foreground walked past with the easy stride of someone immune to the season. Sleeveless, tanned, a newspaper in hand—he looked more like August than January. The scene unfolded quickly. The scooter-lined curb, the idling bus, and the kiosk stacked high with papers gave the photograph its Roman DNA. The cluttered street corner made for a textured backdrop, but compositionally I placed him just off-centre,…

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    Three’s Company

    November 14, 2014

    No time for lunch at Piazza Fiume …

    February 20, 2013

    Red Moon at the end of August

    September 1, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Quis Custodiet…

    January 26, 2013 /

    I photographed these two men standing guard outside a government building, their uniforms marking the distinction between routine policing and ceremonial presence. The man on the left, in standard attire, leans casually, his stance relaxed. The man on the right, draped in a cape and holding a sword, maintains rigidity, his posture ceremonial, as though embodying an institution rather than an individual. Compositionally, I framed them against the imposing stone architecture, the vertical columns echoing the upright form of the ceremonial guard. The iron gate behind them adds depth and formality, while the shadows creeping into the arch contrast with the brightness of the façade. The pairing of the two…

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    An Antique Shop in via Cadorna

    December 10, 2023

    An Old Wi(n)dow

    November 17, 2014

    Inside the Garrison

    May 14, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Killing Santa? Really?

    January 25, 2013 /

    This image came out of one of those moments when absurdity and bureaucracy collide so neatly you’d think it was staged. But it wasn’t. A plastic Santa Claus, mid-climb on a balcony railing, hangs over a military facility—camouflage netting, barred windows, and a glaring yellow sign that reads ZONA MILITARE – DIVIETO DI ACCESSO – SORVEGLIANZA ARMATA (Military Zone – No Access – Armed Surveillance). The juxtaposition is so stark, it borders on the surreal. I composed the frame tightly to maximise that tension. Everything sits on verticals: the iron bars, the camouflage mesh, the uniformity of the railing. Against this grid, Santa—soft, cartoonish, deliberately naive—becomes a kind of visual…

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    A Sailor

    July 28, 2014

    Out for a ride…

    January 2, 2013

    Cultural Variety In Helsinki

    September 24, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    The last waltz

    January 24, 2013 /

    Everything is ready for the last waltz. The Master of ceremony has just come. Let the celebration begins.

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    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013

    Lamp

    April 2, 2014

    Gliding Away

    December 21, 2021
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