Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Essays”
The photograph you see has been taken in Mussomeli, in Sicily, before the start of the war in Ukraine. The Castle of Mussomeli is built on a fortified rock, overlooking from the top the Sicilian countryside. Today, with the world set back in a worrisome war, a Castle is, again, …
New Photographs added to The 2021 Diary Project.
This post is about a place and a photograph that has been meaningful for my evolution as a photographer. ear with me through this memory flow as the first facts happened on April, 19th, 2007. 11 years ago, five year after the beginning of my journey into digital photography, I …
Cuba. A photographer’s dream. One of the most iconic and photographed places on earth. I was thinking to all this while buying the tickets, for me, my wife and Vittorio (our 4 years old toddler) to spend 3 weeks of december in La Isla Bonita. But I also knew that …
We are living in a time of accelerated change, I write in my Artist Statement. Cuba is one of those places where few things changed in the last decades. So where is the transition? How things will change in the future? One of the surprising aspects, for a visitor coming from …
This is the selection of OCOLOY photographs for October and November 2015.
August and September selection of OCOLOY.
After the first year of OCOLOY, culminated with two exhibitions and some Internet traction, I decided to put my small Ricoh GR aside and get out with a single roll of 12 photographs (Fuji Pro 160C) and my 20 years old big gun: the Rollei 6003 professional. And, I should …
I was in Paris just before the tragic happenings of November 13th 2015. As usual a city full of life, of joy, and this is what this city is going to be forever, and nothing will ever change it. #ParisIsAboutLife.
My 8 OCOLOY photographs for June, with a touch of heat, are now online.
Back in track with my GR. Here’s OCOLOY for May 2015.
My Ocoloy for April has been partially tampered by my broken(!) Ricoh. Yes, it stopped working so I had to send it back for fixing. Hence, in April, I really missed it. Fewer shots in this month, some of them taken with Sony A7r+35mm. Indeed, it was fun for a …
After January and February here is the OCOLOY for March. I’m shooting 70 pics per week and select, printing, 8 of them per month. I’m using just a small Ricoh GR (28mm f/2.8) and process the photographs to polaroid look&feel.
With some delay over the schedule here the photographs belonging to OCOLOY, taken in February 2015. January photographs are visible here. I’m shooting 70 pics per week and select, printing, 8 of them per month. I’m using just a small Ricoh GR (28mm f/2.8) and process the photographs to polaroid look&feel.
Photography must be fun. So together with the “big”, long term projects, that somehow drain energy, I’m enjoying a One Camera, One Lens, One Year Project. For 2015, I’m shooting 70 pics per week and select, printing, 8 of them per month. I’m using just a small Ricoh GR (28mm …
Second short story published on Storehouse. No secrets: I love bikes, and, more than all, vintage bikes. And I am not alone… With some friends we use 40 years old bikes to explore, slowly, Sicily. Discovering vintage all around… Some of the photos of these trips are together in the …
