Italy

For years, I travelled in search of people who had chosen to disappear. Or at least, that is what I…

Photography is a rather strange art form: whilst it starts out as a realist art, one soon realises that things…

Dreaming of being shipwrecked in the land of the Phaeacians. Rome, Via Alessandro III, 20 January 2026. Suave, mari magno…

It can happen that one photographs something solely for its form or for some mental association, without there being any…

A few issues with the passage of time. Rome, Via San Francesco a Ripa, 25 March 2026. It may seem…

Time, too, remains suspended in an indeterminate limbo: there are no longer stories or fleeting, frozen moments…

I would simply like to let the images speak for themselves; the loneliness and isolation of men and women in…

We speak of a metamorphosis when something changes its form and transforms into something else:the frog that becomes a prince…

With pride, a sense of duty, and justifiable satisfaction at a hard-won victory, the people in arms wave the sacred…

With a bit of luck, an eye for detail and a touch of irony, it is possible to extract interesting…

There are times when, in order to describe an atmosphere or convey moods through photographic images, I prefer to set…

Heroes are those people who, by performing extraordinary deeds, sacrificing themselves for some ideal or belief or for the common…

White on white, without a smile. Rome, Via Cipro, 20 November 2025. In many of the photographs I take, I…

Double portrait. Rome, Borgo Pio, 25 October 2025. First the flood, then the ebb. After immortalising the tight ranks of…

Encampments. Rome, Largo del Colonnato, 1 July 2025. Rest after exertion, a break after the frantic rush here and there…

The quintessential photographer. Rome, Via della Cuccagna, July 9, 2025. We live in times when words are losing ground to…

From the days of Brennus, through those of Hannibal, the Goths, the Landsknechts, the medieval pilgrims so vividly described by…

When you take the image of the human body and divide it into its constituent parts, then take some of…

PORTO SELVAGGIO Lucio Battisti (1943–1998) was an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and guitarist. He is widely recognized as a pioneer of…

Seeing people sleeping on the street, whether they are homeless people, tourists overcome by the heat, workers taking advantage of…