November 2009
In my last fashion shoot we had our lovely model having her lips painted in pink, I’ve been obsessed with pink lipsticks since then. so while retouching, today, I suddenly remembered of some other pink lips I photographed recently. here there is one of the beautiful women I met in Tokyo. I’m loving her effortless and kind of modern hippy style. I saw her while she was parking her colorful bicycle and entering in the shop to work in harajuku, she had the pinkest lips and the kindest smile :)
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on February 4, 2010, 08:30,
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On tuesday my friend Sara and I went to see the Tim Walker exhibition here in Milan. it was simply amazing. We couldn’t stop smiling while looking at those great prints and the props his used on his shoots :)
Here the are a few pictures of that day taken with the iphone.
“Un kilomètre à pied, ça use ça use..un kilomètre à pied ça use les souliers :) ”
Images taken last summer around Oxford Circus and Bond street.
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on January 25, 2010, 13:26,
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So today I’m going to be a bit off topic and post my favorite cookies recipe :)
The images are not great because I cooked them at night (..and I was too lazy to take my lighting kit out!), but the cookies where yummy! thanks to ‘cavolettodibruxelle’ for the nice recipe.
Ingredients:
butter 225g
sugar 150g
brown sugar 150g
eggs 2
flour 250g
chocolate chip 100g
leaven for cakes 1 small spoon
salt
How to:
First thing sift the flour with the leaven and a bit of salt.
Add the eggs, the sugar and the melted butter and mix well. I used a kitchen robot because the knead get quite tick. When finished put the mixture into the fridge for about 10 minutes
Take your knead out and start putting small heaps of it on a baking tin previously covered with some oven paper. Don’t make the heaps too big or too close to each other as the biscuits will grow a lot.
Let them cook in the oven at 180° for about 10 minutes.
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on January 21, 2010, 17:33,
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Swans where the first animals I met in Évian-les-Bains. The Lac Léman has many of them, and I have always been fascinated and frightened by those beautiful creatures, sometimes too gorgeous and calm to be real. But I think that If i was a bird I probably wouldn’t have been one of them, maybe a “canard”? but I’m not a fan of the word “duck” in english so probably not. Maybe I could have been a small swan painted in pink, perhaps that would have been more appropriate for me ;)
Anyway, all those talks mainly because I had this picture of a good looking swan I took on the lac of Como to post.
By the way I miss the beautiful autumn light.. I just can’t wait for spring, sunsets and warm yellowish lens flares to come back to me :)
self-portraiture – San Sicario January 2009.
previous image of this series can be seen here.
Dreaming around
Artist statement
I recently started this series in August 2009. I’m still not sure of when this project will end and if it will ever have an ending.
I always found it tough to document my travels and holidays, I was trying to oblige myself to go out with a camera and take pictures of what I was seeing, but it didn’t felt right, it wasn’t me.
At the same time I wanted and had to find my own coherent way to document.
The first image of this series was taken in Villeneuve-Loubet, south of France: just me waking up by the sea. I woke up early that day and took that picture because I thought it would have been an idyllic way to get up every morning.
Afterwards I realized that it could be my way of documenting the travels I was making: a recapitulation of where and what and how I was feeling.
This series of images will represent me sleeping wherever the journey takes me to. It will speed up sometimes and slow down some others depending on how much I will be able to travel.
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on January 4, 2010, 15:39,
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San Sicario, Italy
January 2010
my first image for this new year :)
happy new year to all of you!
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on December 27, 2009, 08:30,
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A couple of days ago I went to the hoepli library here in Milan to browse books and magazines, and I couldn’t believe how expensive the illustrated book where. I then went home and saw that most of them where half of the price and sometimes even 1/3 of it on uk amazon! :)
So I started making list of some lovely books to buy if someone else is looking forward buying some nice photographic books for himslef :)
Nick Knight (Hardcover) – by Nick Knight (Author)
£28.50
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art) (Paperback) – by Charlotte Cotton (Author)
£5.75
Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 (Hardcover) – by Richard Avedon (Author)
£32.89
Patrick Demarchelier (Hardcover) – by Patrick Demarchelier (Author), Anna Wintour (Author)
£27.92
Gregory Crewdson: 1985-2005 [Illustrated] (Hardcover) – by Stephan Berg (Author), Martin Hentschel (Author)
£31.60
The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (Hardcover) – by Henri Cartier-Bresson (Author)
£7.46
Annie Leibovitz at Work (Hardcover) – by Annie Leibovitz (Author)
£15.50
In “Vogue”: The Illustrated History of the World’s Most Famous Fashion Magazine (Hardcover)- by Alberto Oliva (Author), Norberto Angeletti (Author)
£29.95
Glen Luchford (Hardcover)- by Glen Luchford (Author), Jenny Saville (Author)
$29.60
Paolo Roversi: Studio (Hardcover) – by Paolo Roversi (Author)
£27.36
Pictures (Hardcover)- by Tim Walker (Author)
£41.00
(Personally I already have the Tim Walker one, but since he is my favorite, he couldn’t not be on the list)
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on December 24, 2009, 14:44,
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Little post to wish you all happy holidays!
Today I’m backing and cooking with my parents, and already started eating too much chocolate hehe.
I hope you are having some lovely time with family and friends :)
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on December 22, 2009, 08:30,
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some more pictures from Japan. more night shoots that go along with the series I posted before. the images were all taken in Nishi-sugamo the district in which my home-stay family had their house. the district is on the mita line, just a few stop from Ikebukuro station which was very convenient and central. Nishi-sugamo is a calm neighborhood and I never felt safer walking around with my tripod and camera at night. and the clouds..they were just stunning that evening.
