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Jun 09

by Barbano Luigi in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, ethic, FineArt, meditations, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: B&W, Black and White, D-Day, fineart, Heroes, photography, Placid Lessie

Black and White Tales, Print #22

There are moments in history when we must very carefully chose our heroes. We have to be careful to not transform victims in heroes and vice-versa. Victims need to have justice, but heroes deserve to be remembered and be honored as examples for our lives. hero:1. a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. victim:1. a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action. If we confuse the terms and forget the values that make a person a hero, we will have more and more victims. To have no victims we need real heroes to follow. . . . If you want to read the great story of Placid Lassie, take a look at the Tunison Foundation website. See you next time! .

Jun 02

by Barbano Luigi in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, ethic, FineArt, meditations, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: George Floyd, photography, Photojournalism

Black and White Tales, Print #21

Sometime to not take a picture is a moral choice. . . . To see the videos I’m referring to, just do a quick search on YouTube. Until the next time!

May 26

Black and White Tales, Print #20

A couple of days ago I was reading the news here in Italy and I read a title that made me think: “The USA cancel the 4th of July”. The fight against Covid is not just a medical fight but a political one. To make mistakes in communication at this moment is perhaps more dangerous in the long term than making medical mistakes. . . . See you the next time! .

May 19

by Barbano Luigi in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, ethic, FineArt, News, nudes, Uncategorized 0 comments

Black and White Tales, Print #19

Slowly the Italian Covid jail is reopening and we are back to normal, included the normal absurdities of this country. A news in Italy was able to stay on the first page, even in front of Covid. Here my photographic answer! For the details watch the video, this time is very short and nudity is involved. Please note the irony, to pass a freedom message I had to censor the nipples in this video cover and thumbnail so social media will not censor my post. At least, here on this page I’m still free to show the beauty of the nude human body! . . . Until the next one… listen to Rodney Carrington hymn to freedom 😉 . .

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 05

by Barbano Luigi 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 Barbano Luigi 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…

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! .