Yesterday I watched Obama’s Victory Speech and I have been hit by two things: his words and his presence. For the first I praise his speech writers: they have been fantastic and they have been able to deliver words of changes and hope. For the second I have to admit that the charisma that guy [...]
I love some places around London. The small streets around Seven Dials are one of those. They go deep into the hearth or the city, bringing you the scent of it, with their buildings, their characters at every corner.
Outside a shop I met this man, relaxing and smoking his cigarette. He was very kind with [...]
She was scared of me. When she asked my why I wanted her picures I explained as I normally do, simply telling the truth. She said me yes, but I feel she gave her permission more out of fear than because she wanted to. I bet she was thinking that I was a mad man [...]
There are small downsides in using film, and one of these is finding your film scratched! I was quite happy about this shot, I liked the reflection of the sun on the benches when I saw, still on the developed film, those scratches. Bummer! To be honest I am not so angry for them, it [...]
When I met this man and asked his portrait, just in fron of the National Portrait Gallery, he laughed and asked me why I wanted to take a picture of an ugly person as him. I did not think he is ugly at all: I stopped him because he was a strong character and when [...]
When I saw this girl in Regents Street, waiting for her bus, I thought I had met a ghosts. Her colors, the hat she wore, the pose of her body, the frail voice she used to allow me to take a photo of her. Everything was totally timeless, as if I had fallen in a [...]
He was on the South Bank, with his sketchbook and his pencil and his pipe. He was drawing the landscape in front of him and he was so relaxed that I did not see him, I saw my photo instead. I did not need to think about the composition, because I had it already in [...]
The second roll of film came back yesterday evening, just hours after I dropped it for the development.
This time I am extremely happy of my photos: I have a staggering number of 13 photos (on 36) I have shortlisted to be published. Moreover the vast majority of them are straight out of the camera (SOOC), [...]
He approached us singing and shaking a paper glass with some changes in it. He did not ask for some other coins, he just went on singing and moving the paper glass in front of us. When I took out the camera he shaked his head and hand, as to clarify he was not happy [...]
I do not know his name. This guy was sitting on one of the first step of the fountain in Piccadilly Circus and he was placid. I do not know if he was waiting for someone or if he was just spending some time relaxing, but I know something for sure: he is “Number Zero“. [...]
Some weeks ago my mother come to visit us and she brought her very old camera, a Konica Autoreflex TC. It is probably as old as I am. With it I inherited a 40mm 1.8 and some other lenses.
Also few days ago I met someone who helped me to overcome some of my problems in [...]
I did not know how to title this photo, so I showed it to Fabiana and she immediately said: I know how you should title this one. She had that strange look in her eyes and an incredibly naughty smirk on her face.
“Title it: The Devil and the Holy Water” she said me.
And so I [...]
Yesterday Fabiana and I were watching a trailer of a film: Happy-Go-Lucky. I do not know if it will be any good but it is based on a character who is, despite everything that can go bad, Happy. No mater what life has for us, happiness should be our companion more often. Right now I [...]
I am deeply analyzing my photography. I am not interested in what I have done but why I did it and where it will go from now on. As I have told many times I am still looking for a mentor, mainly because I am not entirely satisfied of my photos. Someone the other day [...]
I am a respectful person, I have always been, and in the same way I respect every worker, I respecto policeman. Their job is not always easy, most of the time they have to deal with people we would not invite for dinner, and they are the hinstrument of safety our governments give us. They [...]
I could have told you many interesting thing about this woman, about how I met her and many other things but reality sometimes is much more interesting than fiction: please meet Michela, one of our best friend.
Fabiana and I have known her for many years and she has been so crazy to pack her things [...]
Governments should be afraid of their people!
I am a political person. This does not mean that I use words “politically” or that I follow the houses to know every vote my representative did. I am political because I have strong opinion on how the things should work. I am political because when the government say [...]
The leaves on the ground, the chilly evenings and the early sunset have arrived. Sometimes I like to lie to myself, thinking we will still have plenty of sunshine and warm days but I am aware that each and everyone of them will be a blessing. The Autumn is coming in bringing its pavements of [...]
Yesterday I felt like I was totally invisible for some minutes. I was in Covent Garden (yes, again) and I was standing in the middle of a small crowd. Their attention was on a local attraction and I was just another one, apart for the fact that I was not interested in the artist. To [...]
I have always been interested in shooting men at work. Their attention is focused on what they are doing, not on the camera. I am just another passer by that does not attract their interest, therefore they simply act naturally, as if you were there instead of me with my camera. Real life, real moments. [...]
This time I would like to let her eyes opened and their kiss talk for me.
Yesterday I went in Covent Garden for a short walk at lunchtime; simply grabbing my camera and I walking around before my lunch. It is a great time of spending part of my break. I have done the same route over and over since I moved office but I have to admit that I had [...]
I am trying to recap the FOWA experience. It came in one of the worst week I have had lately to be honest, so the initial grumpiness was surely caused by many external factors. Once more I have realized that I am not a good ice-breaker: if someone approaches me everything is perfectly fine but [...]
In this week I was not able to spend a lot of time on Flickr. First I was snowed under some dreadful workload, then I attended to a conference and yesterday I had a photo shoot and some social life. Then you have to realize that this weekend London is blessed with a fantastic sun [...]