Everything started few days after this year’s Notting Hill Carnival. Well, to be honest everything started during the carnival, when I took a photo of two girls dancing on the streets of Notting Hill. I was close to Westbourne Park, the police had blocked the road and we were waiting to move on [...]
When I was thinking to a title for this photo I took at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, I thought about the distractions from time to time you have in your frame, and how much they can be used to create a better photo. When I was thinking so a song, Beautiful Distraction from Crazy [...]
Few things are more reassuring than someone keeping your hand. There may be noise, crowd, the whole scary world out there, but nothing is too dangerous if your guide is holding your hand. And if one is reassuring, having both your hands kept by guardians’ hands is peace.
There was a large crowd this year at [...]
The long days of the Notting Hill Carnival are some of those days that have so many attractions that children would like to have more and more. They use all the resources they have chasing those special things that cannot be seen every day. Their eyes are filled with emotions, awe and happiness than being [...]
If I had to say why I take photos, I would easily answer: “I hunt feelings“. I like street or candid photography because it gives me the possibility to capture the reality. The true reactions, the true feelings of the people walking by.
I am deeply attracted by the human nature and so much I love [...]
Photos take a part of our story, a small fragment of what we are. They do not change and, in time, they still show what we have been. Sometimes I regret not having used my camera more often in the past. One thing I rarely do is taking self portrait, I do not like them [...]
The Notting Hill Carnival is a Caribbean carnival, so the title matches perfectly, doesn’t it?
This year experience at the Carnival has been fantastic. The girl in the middle was playing with that toy gun, and let me tell you that she was the leader of the group: no one would have challenged her! Those eyes [...]
During the two days of the Notting Hill carnival we have seen thousands of people, and I shot hundreds of them.
On Sunday I shot a young girl and I had a sort of flashback. I was almost sure I had already seen her (or to be honest, her hair) but I did not put [...]
During the Carnival many people were running around quite excited. I was one of them. There were many things to see, many scents to smell and very few of those things could have been considered normal. Being attentive to every single detail was paramount.
But hse was different. She was walking down Ladbrooke Grove as it [...]
Many years ago I was used to say something like: “An adult is nothing more than a corpse of a teenager, killed by too many useless problems“. Right now I can say that too many times I am concerned by what are not even problems. They are just one of the many aspects of life. [...]
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