PrefaceGear doesn’t matter, so they say. I had never bought into that idea until five years ago when I met the work of Matteo Ceschi. This talented Italian photographer shoots events, portraits, and even professional assignments with a variety of small cameras, some held by duct tape, with visible signs of good and prolonged use. […]
London, late January 2018 Rainy days in London; sometimes the rain turns into snow. I’m in town with my wife: she has some academic business with English colleagues. Lunches, aperitifs and dinners are my only meeting points during these days. All the rest of the time, I’m goofing around with my two cameras kit: a […]
I started shooting live shows, rock festivals in particular, and theater performances with a Canon 1100D and a Sony Alpha 3000. When I bought the Fuji X30 I discovered a different approach to this kind of live events. Suddenly, me and my camera became invisible! No one was concerned with us anymore. A small […]
Milan, May 28, 2017. 33 degrees Celsius. A very insidious curve near the 500 meters sign to the goal line, located in the main square of Milan, Piazza Duomo. It’s the final day of the 100th edition of Giro d’Italia (http://www.giroditalia.it/eng), one of the most important multiple stage bicycle races. This is the day of […]
I left for Sarajevo with the reports of a couple of friends and Giovanna Volpi’s essay Sarajevo Maybe, 1994 in my pocket. In the bag, I also had a couple of cameras: a FujiFilm X30 and a small Ricoh GX100. The program included a photo exhibition entitled ko.existence. Those few notions I lost once in […]
After qualifying from an Art Secondary School, in my hometown of Bath, I intended to pursue a career in art or design. However, at that time, 1971, the opportunities were very limited, so needing to earn some money I found myself working in a shop, and that just happened to be a camera shop! It […]