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inside Milano’s central train station

Sotto il patrocinio del Comune, quest’anno la bella cittadina di Senigallia ha accolto tre ondate di giovani fotografi da tutta Italia nella sua Bottega Fotografica. In altrettanti fine settimana sono stati organizzati dei brevi workshop con grandi maestri italiani della fotografia per lasciare la loro impronta culturale sulle giovani leve aiutandoli a trovare delle linee [...]

Ancona Storta
Ancona, Marche
Italy, 2008

Homogeneity of the appearance of a photographic image guarantees completeness to a body of images. It bundles them visually and physically into a One, a Unit, enforcing their weight and importance. Just as “the look” of a painter’s work is given by colours and stroke, canvas and themes so it is with a photographer’s work. [...]

beppe grillo in torino, 2008 – © alessandro fais
Beppe Grillo, Italy’s most well known comedian and blogger has just concluded his Vaffanculo 2 (V2) Day, a one day event with theme: Information and its control in Italy. As Berlusconi (“Tar Head” reffered to his well known hair implants) chose “Forza Italia”, the most popular italian [...]

 what are we demonstrating?/che cosa manifestiamo?  

Muore oggi, divorato dal cancro, uno dei fotografi icona della guerra del Vietnam: Philip Jones Griffiths.Le sue foto hanno contribuito al ritiro delle truppe statunitensi ed hanno lasciato impresso nelle nostre menti il ricordo di una guerra troppo “stupida” per continuare. Ci lascia, in pace e serenità, all’età di 72 anni.Ma lascia dietro di sè il [...]

A modern triptych: Trittico
Two entities can be divided, morally and physically. Only through union can they be one. Only after and prolonged union can they be a single entity and become one, fully understandable. Plato would have talked hours about the division that created men and women, his Myth of Creation.

Every now and then I enjoy classic portraits. It’s something you have to try to understand what direct, frontal, one on one portraiture is about. And you figure out that it’s really more than simply observing an event or a scene, it’s interacting with it as well, strongly.