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“. [...]
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