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Black and White Tales, Print #50

After a year, the most strange, upsetting and confusing year of my life, the Black and White Tales project arrived at its end. A project that helped me stay alive in this crazy world. . . I hope you enjoyed it, now is time for me for some postpartum depression and I will be back in January with other projects to share with you.

Nov 16

Black and White Tales, Print #45

To keep the mind awake, specially in lock downs, books are a great tool. This image is inspired by a Buzzati’s novel. Not the right book to read right now, being a little bit too much kafkian, but a book that came to my mind this week and inspired this picture years ago. . . . See you next week… and we will see if the tide brought something useful…

Nov 03

Black and White Tales, Print #43

A lot of things are going on right now. The most important is the vote for the presidential elections in USA.Dear Americans, vote wisely so I can continue to work on my plans and keep my dreams. If not, I will have to switch to survival mode, exactly as my parents and grandparents did in the 1940s. . . . See you next week, I hope with my plans still intact.

Black and White Tales, Print #42

The Covid anxiety is back. Media, here in Italy, push continuous news about the cases count and create panic. The numbers don’t add up, but who cares, all they care about is creating enough panic to justify the socialist government grab of power. In this environment I was thinking at the good old days when the news came from newspapers, just once a day. . . . See you next time! Still 8 weeks to go…

Oct 13

Black and White Tales, Print #40

Tales and Tiles! What a difference between them! Never had back pain for a tale… . . . See you next week when the balcony will be done and I’ll have all the time possible to concentrate on tales instead of tiles!

Oct 05

Black and White Tales, Print #39

Sometime we do something that can change our believes. In my case I was already discussing a lot about the use of digital photography, but this picture reinforced in me the idea that we have to stop to blindly follow the technical evolution and start to wonder if we made the right choice. . . . #9 done, 11 to go! See you soon!

Sep 28

Black and White Tales, Print #38

What to say… summer just ended! Ouch! . . See you next time when I will be over my end of summer sadness!

Sep 22

Black and White Tales, Print#37

Are we losing the sense of beauty? . . The sense of beauty is what makes us human but we are forgetting that sometimes.

Sep 15

Black and White Tales, Print #36

I didn’t forgot the anniversary of 9/11, I simply did not found a suitable image for what I wanted to say, so I’m here again with another image from the same road trip of the last 2 Tales. . . . See you next time with another print.

Sep 08

Black and White Tales, Print #35

As I anticipated in the last B&W Tale, here another image and another story from the roadtrip I took in South Italy, 30 years ago with my father. This time we are in Puglia, exactly in Torre Canne and I wonder how the place can be changed in 30 years. . . . See you next time, probably with another tale and image from the same trip!