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May 12

Black and White Tales, Print #18

10th week of Covid jail in Italy. Every day we are losing some more freedom and giving more power to the government to keep us “safe” from a virus. Every day I look around and I see the danger of bureaucratic choices, taken without any flexibility or judgment, imposed upon the people. People protesting or simply expressing an opinion not conforming with the government, are censored from the traditional or social media and fined for their respectful protests. Few days ago in Milan, the owners of restaurants protested peacefully against the lock-down. The protester were fined 400 Euros each for illegal gathering. This is just an example but every day the same happens and most of the time does not even make the news. Some people already decided to give up and suicide because they cannot produce anymore and they have no more a way to survive but are just accumulating debts. This situation made me think about what can we do, as individuals, to keep ourselves free and not fall in the darkness of the European past. This week the video is a little longer, sorry, but I felt the need to express my thinking in a proper way […]

May 08

by Luigi Barbano in BlogUpdates, Film photography, Gear Talk, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Film camera, film photography, filmisalive, Luigi Barbano, Pentax, Pentax ME Super, photography

Gear Talk: Pentax ME Super

Since I published my book “Photography: The F Manual” I received many questions about what equipment to use. I decided to make a series of video about cameras, lenses and other tools I used and still use for film and digital photography. First review, my first camera: Pentax ME Super. Enjoy the video! . .

May 05

by Luigi Barbano in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, FineArt, Fujifilm, meditations, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: fine art, fine art printing, fineart, freedom, Giulianova Lido, Giulianove, Luigi Barbano, photography, Stairs

Black and White Tales, Print #17

8th week of Covid jail in Italy, this time, over the image of a pier wall in Giulianova Lido, I wonder about freedom versus safety. . . . See you next week and in the meantime think about what you are ready to give up for some safety. And let me know! .

Apr 28

Black and White Tales, Print #16

In the 7th week of Italian Covid lock-down, it is the 75th anniversary of the Italian Liberation from the dictatorships that brought us to WWII. While now other “leaders”, following the same socialist philosophy, are establishing a new dictatorship all over Europe with the excuse of a virus and the help of bureaucratic non elected worldwide organizations, I decided to homage the real people that freed us. I hope they will do it again, because Europeans are demonstrating one more time to be just sheep ready to lose all their freedom for the impossible promise of safety. Sadly the people’s memory seems to be very short, the same mistakes are going to be repeated and the trust is wrongly given to the fascists that, wearing now a red shirt, rewrote history. Personally I have only one creed: Live free or die! . . . …to the next week!

Black and White Tales, Print #15

The desire for summer, in the sixth week of Italian Covid jail, made me chose another image of the sea. This time there is something more, there is a bridge that made me think about the difference of thinking between American and Italians to overcome tragedies. . . . In the video I speak about some beautiful project that were presented by Cimolai, to rebuild the Morandi bridge, collapsed in Genova the 14th of August 2018. Sadly thos projects were not accepted and instead the very ugly project by Renzo Piano was realized. Here you can see them in the video below. . . Stay safe, see you next week!

Apr 14

by Luigi Barbano in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, Books, FineArt, meditations, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Clearwater, clearwater Beach, family, fine art printing, fineart, friendship, Luigi Barbano, photography, print, Summertime

Balck and White Tales, Print #14

Easter is gone and the summer is here. . . . See you next week, knowing it will be another week of Italian covid jail! ouch…

Apr 10

by Luigi Barbano in BlogUpdates, Film photography, FineArt, Fujifilm, Photography Class, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: betterphotographer, class, exercises, fineart, improveskills, Luigi Barbano, photoclass, photogrpahy, workshop

What to do during COVID Jail?

We are all in the same situation, all round the world, we are stuck in our houses with a lot of time available. This is a great moment to improve ourselves and our skills. I see around me a lot of posting about cameras and photographic techniques so I decided to do something a little different. You can see here 10 COVID Compliant Exercises to Become a Better Photographer. The concept is easy, with what you have available in the tranquillity of your home or inside the border of your COVID jail, you can do this exercises to try new approaches, or relive forgotten ones, to photography. The results can be shared and discussed on the FaceBook Group I created just for this project. The class is available for free on YouTube! Watch the introduction here and follow me on YouTube for the exercises. . . See you in the FaceeBook project page!

Black and White Tales – Print #13

An ancient abbey and modern COVID times. . . . See you next week my friends. Keep safe and, mostly, keep free! .

Mar 31

by Luigi Barbano in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, FineArt, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Black and White, black and white tales, COVID-19, fine art, fine art printing, fineart, italy, Orta, Orta LAke, photoraphy

Black and White Tales – Print #12

In this 12th week of the year and third of the COVID reclusion, in a cold rainy day, the mood is not the best, but the tie is nice! . . . Stay free my friends! .

Mar 24

by Luigi Barbano in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, FineArt, News 0 comments tags: B&W, B&WTales, Cana Island, COVID-19, Door County, fine art printing, fineart, lighthouse, photography

Black and White Tales – Print #11

From Italy in COVID lockdown another weekly tale. The perception of an image can deeply change when a psychosis is affecting an entire country. . . . See you next week and I hope from a better situation! .