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Gabriele Lopez, class 1974. I started to take photographs as a child, with a Polaroid camera that was a gift for an occasion that I forgot. With that simple camera I started to record what was around me. Today not that much has changed in this sense. The photography I love is a daily diary, fragments of pictures, that together mean the sense of my existence, my way of expressing, understand and live life itself, fixing what I want to live again.
Journal 2021-2024
Books
3 July 2025
Journal 2021-2024
While I may work, now and then on different dedicated projects, there’s a side of me that just keeps recording daily life fragments, usually with a simple point and shoot camera. These are just dreams or instinctive takes of ordinary life in my city and year after year they are…
DIY #14 evening dedicated to the world of self-publishing
Photo Exhibition - real
31 May 2025
DIY #14 evening dedicated to the world of self-publishing
Of the many photographic projects I have taken part in, this DIY nights is definitely one of the ones I am most attached to. A totally inclusive expression of the pleasure of the DoItYourself approach and, before anything else, an excuse to get together, be together and share, in a…
Nuova edizione delle DIY Nights dedicate al “self publishing” indipendente
Photo Exhibition - real
23 October 2024
Nuova edizione delle DIY Nights dedicate al “self publishing” indipendente
Ancora una volta si svolge una serata dedicata al self-publishing per il ciclo delle nostre DIY Nights! Questa volta l’appuntamento è presso lo Spazio ON-OFF di via Padova 94 a Milano che da qualche anno porta avanti iniziative sulla fotografia e sull’arte interessanti e coraggiose. Sarà la solita serata tra…
DIY WEEK-END Mostre, libri, letture e fanzine
Photo Exhibition
10 June 2024
DIY WEEK-END Mostre, libri, letture e fanzine
La fotografia ha bisogno di sostegno, di unione e di coesione per svilupparsi in questo momento storico, dove più si è forti e più si riesce a dimostrare il suo valore.
Workshop with Michael Ackerman in Milano
Workshop
4 December 2023
Workshop with Michael Ackerman in Milano
The workshop is open to anyone, regardless of your level of experience so far, who is working with photography in a personal way.
DIY #11
Photo Exhibition
30 December 2022
DIY #11
On 14th January we are happy to invite everyone to our 11th appointment of our DIY Nights, dedicated to the world of self publishing but, more important, a re-start after difficult times for these activities.
OPEN CALL: Apocalypse and rebirth
International Photography Awards
20 May 2022
OPEN CALL: Apocalypse and rebirth
Society, economy, environment, man, possibility, understanding, escape, future.This call is open to all those who want to give their own interpretation and vision on this topic with photographs, texts, illustrations and any other form that comes to mind. Send your projects with a brief description and your contacts exclusively via…
Map – existence
Surrealism
24 March 2022
Map – existence
Milan Italy Afterwords I have been taking pictures around different cities daily for decades now.Suddenly, everything starts looking as a map of a place that has no definite name or belonging. The rhythm of the crowd, loneliness, fascination, and tiredness melt together in a swirl.Many of us experienced some sort…
Darkroom and workspace chance in Milan
Other News
20 October 2021
Darkroom and workspace chance in Milan
Hello, this news is to point a new chance for photographers in the area of Milan (but not restricted to them) to use a darkroom and workspace in Milan, Navigli area. The space is a little dream I had for years, I converted a basement in a working area with…
Associazione DIY
Other News
14 November 2020
Associazione DIY
Questa avventura nasce come uno spazio aperto a Milano.Uno spazio dove creare qualcosa di fisico e non solo virtuale.Un unione di Idee dove creare per il piacere di fare qualcosa in cui si crede, prendendo quindi la parola “facciamolo” e mettendola in pratica.Produrre e condividere fanzine e mostre, progetti editoriali…
Silence Collective
Other News
12 November 2020
Silence Collective
Dedicated to a certain use of photography, we are a group of friends that use their camera on a daily basis in life to preserve memories and self expression. Far from the noise and exposure need this a space for a common project and union of visions of photography as…
Subway Zen – Mini mostra a Milano
Photo Exhibition
18 September 2020
Subway Zen – Mini mostra a Milano
Subway Zen è una piccola mostra su un lavoro fotografico durato 15 anni svolto nel mondo della metropolitana. Un viaggio che poi ha finito per diventare molto più di questo.
Diary
Surrealism
5 June 2020
Diary
A diary on time and place being. The idea of disappearence. “Black is the night. So quiet that you could see through it. / I open my eyes so I can see and be in love. / Encounters, keys, changes, escape. / Dust covers memories / and pictures are time…
Subway Zen
Books
21 February 2020
Subway Zen
Subway zen is a 15 years personal project on the subway world. Is mostly a point of view.
Broken Poems
Intimacy
24 January 2020
Broken Poems
A private journal about memories and existence. These photographs found me during the last years as I was questioning myself a lot what photography itself represents to me today, after all these years.
Subway Zen
Other stories
3 October 2019
Subway Zen
A small collection of snapshots taken daily during my subway trips while I loved to observe this underworld.