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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A videographer…

    February 27, 2013 /

    … or a human sundial?

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    Side by Side, Ready to Ride

    July 21, 2015

    Gary O’ Toole

    July 15, 2017

    PI Room At Palais de la Découverte

    June 7, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013 /

    told himself the seagull.

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    As Time Goes By

    June 11, 2013

    Under the Yellow Umbrella

    March 9, 2013

    St. Peter in Background

    December 5, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A promenade

    February 24, 2013 /

    … in a forbidden place.

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    Waiting for (Supreme) Justice

    February 14, 2017

    Whatever You Stand For, Vote!

    May 24, 2014

    Pentax k-5 And The Aquapack 458

    August 15, 2014
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Business people in Rome

    February 23, 2013 /

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    A Lost Towel

    July 3, 2013

    The Score Keeper

    April 25, 2019

    Counter-intuitive Focus

    February 9, 2020
  • 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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    On Photography and Self-Delusion

    September 4, 2022

    A Calm Person

    January 8, 2014

    The Shoesfixer

    September 7, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Smoke is everywhere…

    February 21, 2013 /

    and is here to stay.

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    Orange Scarf

    November 9, 2014

    Full Moon

    September 30, 2018

    The Argument

    December 27, 2012
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    No time for lunch at Piazza Fiume …

    February 20, 2013 /

    in a busy day

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    Macarons. Again

    October 23, 2015

    The Penguin’s Feeder

    July 25, 2014

    Sting of the Vespa

    March 7, 2025
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Waiting for the hearing

    February 19, 2013 /

    Long gone are the times when the robe told the difference between a lawyer and his client. (BTW, none of them are defendant…)

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    Behind a Shop Window in Oslo

    October 1, 2014

    EOS-M. Tips and Results For Street-Photography

    August 9, 2013

    Close up of a chessboard

    September 1, 2018
  • 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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    Should I Seat?

    December 15, 2021

    A Standup Paddleboarder

    August 25, 2014

    Mirror

    January 17, 2013
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    It’s always the right time

    February 17, 2013 /

    … to light a cigar.

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    Framed

    November 26, 2015

    Late

    December 31, 2012

    Rocco Zifarelli, Jeff Berlin, Beth&Danny Gottlieb, Gabriela Sinagra

    June 10, 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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    The Hamlet’s Dilemma

    May 20, 2014

    Food For Thought

    September 14, 2014

    Leo Gullotta – Bartleby lo scrivano@Teatro Marrucino

    March 15, 2022
  • 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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    Bent

    April 21, 2014

    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013

    Sega Codemaster

    November 21, 2017
  • 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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    On “timing the moment”

    January 20, 2020

    A Sad Harley-Davidson

    August 10, 2013

    A Lonely Table

    March 8, 2015
  • 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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    The Alchoolist’s garbage

    March 5, 2013

    An experiment with Dall-E, ChatGPT and a Nissan S8

    November 4, 2023

    Springtime

    April 23, 2015
  • 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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    Just A Bird

    July 1, 2014

    The Double Helix

    October 13, 2013

    Pouring Water Since About 300 Years

    December 23, 2014
  • 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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    Collision Path

    July 5, 2019

    60×40 Borderless Printing with a HP Z3200ps 24

    May 11, 2014

    Cold Freezing Touring Through The Oslo’s Fjord

    October 4, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Impatience

    February 6, 2013 /

    In a hurry, while somebody else is late…

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    Cupido’s Fall

    June 2, 2014

    Smile!

    August 7, 2013

    Where Did I Left My Car?

    April 2, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Generations

    February 5, 2013 /

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

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    An Old Lady in Great Shape

    September 23, 2014

    Switch

    December 18, 2014

    The Skeptical Listener

    May 26, 2014
  • 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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    From Waltham to Boston

    August 4, 2023

    A quiet watchdog or long-time friend who enjoys some rest??

    May 23, 2013

    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021
  • 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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    A jam in via Alessandria

    December 8, 2023

    Conversations, Silences, and Street Life

    August 5, 2014

    Between Sea and Sky

    February 12, 2015
  • 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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    Empty Chairs in the Tuileries

    October 19, 2013

    A Young Sailor in Open Sea

    August 11, 2014

    Vasa’s Ghost

    July 11, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Quis custodies

    January 26, 2013 /

    …ipsos custodes?

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    Stairway to nothing

    September 18, 2013

    What Souvenirs Say About Rome (and Your Attitude Toward Life)

    August 6, 2025

    Is AI-generated art actually killing ‘real’ Art?

    September 16, 2022
  • 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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    The Penguin’s Feeder

    July 25, 2014

    The Photo I Didn’t Shoot

    June 8, 2013

    Much Too Powerful a Knock…

    June 3, 2014
  • 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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    Guess Who’s the Human?

    October 12, 2013

    5 frames with a Kiev 60, a Volna 80/2,8 and a Ferrania Orto

    June 28, 2024

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013
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