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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A videographer…

    February 27, 2013 /

    … or a human sundial?

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    The Jewels Sale

    November 18, 2015

    A Cello Player

    April 24, 2017

    Zebra Crossing

    March 14, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013 /

    told himself the seagull.

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    EOS-M. An Act of Fairness

    July 24, 2013

    A (Out-of-Focus) Break Between Lunch and Supper

    December 8, 2015

    Floating Flower

    May 19, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A promenade

    February 24, 2013 /

    … in a forbidden place.

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    Is The Sky Falling On Their Heads?

    August 1, 2013

    On Photography and Self-Delusion

    September 4, 2022

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Business people in Rome

    February 23, 2013 /

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    Lost

    July 13, 2015

    In the Rain, A Helping Hand

    July 10, 2019

    Which One?

    April 16, 2014
  • 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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    Tesla Coils@Boston Science Museum

    July 4, 2023

    In Hoc Signo

    August 20, 2015

    A Calm Person

    January 8, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Smoke is everywhere…

    February 21, 2013 /

    and is here to stay.

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    Tesla Coils@Boston Science Museum

    July 4, 2023

    Sun Worshipers

    January 3, 2022

    Using a 1960 Leica Elmarit 90/2,8 on a Fuji X-T3

    April 5, 2021
  • 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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    We Are All Made of Stars

    February 28, 2018

    Whithin The Cage

    October 22, 2014

    Waiting To Board At Santa Margherita Ligure

    August 16, 2014
  • 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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    Daniele Silvestri – Teatri 2022 – Live@Teatro Massimo, Pescara

    December 16, 2022

    The Naughty Customer’s Place

    September 28, 2013

    A Mysterious Bag

    November 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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    Lost in mumbling

    September 22, 2013

    The Bell Ringer of Nikko

    August 6, 2018

    Waiting for the Fish

    December 18, 2021
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    It’s always the right time

    February 17, 2013 /

    … to light a cigar.

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    Lightblade

    September 6, 2013

    Siamese Boats On the Seine River

    June 1, 2014

    Once A God

    July 15, 2014
  • 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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    While Waiting for the Food

    September 3, 2013

    5 frames with a Canon R6 Mk II and its RF 50/1,2 L USM

    September 28, 2024

    Distraction

    April 6, 2016
  • 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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    Late Afternoon Shopping

    March 1, 2014

    A HDR Experiment

    December 9, 2013

    The Silent Listeners

    December 27, 2013
  • 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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    Masters of Propaganda

    July 18, 2023

    Mulberry Street, When Benito II Was Still There…

    July 7, 2014

    A Droplet

    February 21, 2021
  • 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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    Upcoming Call

    June 3, 2013

    Steve Hackett – Live@Teatro d’Annunzio

    July 8, 2017

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 7, 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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    Purple Haze

    January 3, 2013

    The Coffin

    December 12, 2015

    Side by Side, Ready to Ride

    July 21, 2015
  • 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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    Windows

    September 15, 2014

    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014

    Side by Side, Ready to Ride

    July 21, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Impatience

    February 6, 2013 /

    In a hurry, while somebody else is late…

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    A Mesh

    February 16, 2021

    Merleria Livia

    February 14, 2015

    Giorgio Pasotti – Racconti disumani@Teatro Marrucino

    February 28, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Generations

    February 5, 2013 /

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

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    Late Night Conversation at Cardinal’s Wharf

    September 29, 2016

    What Lasts of A Workbench

    February 22, 2015

    Bycicle Ride

    August 28, 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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    The Long Way Up

    March 25, 2013

    Portrait of a Judo Master

    November 14, 2013

    Forgotten Bike In A Forgotten House

    April 3, 2013
  • 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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    Just a soccer field… Part 2

    February 4, 2014

    While Waiting for the Food

    September 3, 2013

    Uchi-Mata

    November 8, 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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    Against the Tide

    January 30, 2014
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    A stupid quarrell

    April 7, 2013

    Avvocati. A New Book

    October 11, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Quis custodies

    January 26, 2013 /

    …ipsos custodes?

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    Damned Autofocus

    April 20, 2014

    A (Tokyo) Taxi Driver

    June 17, 2018

    Traffic Jam in Bruxelles

    April 7, 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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    Windows XVIII … Century

    February 27, 2014

    A few shots from a Paco de Lucia live performance

    July 31, 2013

    Who’s Carrying Who?

    February 28, 2013
  • 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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