so the timeline here has finally arrived at my kyoto trip from last summer… only six months later.
i asked myself not to browse too many photos of japan before my first trip, but when i arrived, everything i saw felt exactly as i had imagined it. my visual expectations seamlessly met reality.
the cover is the first picture i took in kyoto—nature, a subject i rarely touch on. i’ve always found it too direct, too simple, and lacking challenge. but here, there’s no ’good‘ or ’bad‘ photography—everything one captures simply reveals what’s already there, as it is.
to the eternal green 🐉
short but sweet: more than a hotel stay, @yoruya_kurashiki led me to kurashiki and its understated charm.
special thanks to @erisatakeda /the algorithm 🫶🏼👾
mapping Scarpa （2023-ongoing）
from Veneto to Sicily, four museum extensions by Carlo Scarpa i photographed across italy over the past year (fifth one pending!).
still in the process of finding a flow in the archive: structure, materials, repetitive motifs and endless details. this first selection is (mainly) about light.
Castelvecchio Museum, Verona (1958-1974)
Museum Gypsotheca Antonio Canova, Possagno (1955-1957)
Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo (1953-1954)
Querini Stampalia Foundation, Venice (1961-1965)
we go back in time. sicilian days from An Italian Portrait | Un Ritratto Italiano - concept & images i crafted for @lemme.lemme.lemme ‘s new season campaign.
i’ve always had a kind of fear of making monochromatic images, as if part of my memories were lost. but it finally felt right in sicily, so here are some of my first deliberate experiments in black and white.
🛑 it’s giving geriatric every time i tell people i’ve been living in italy for almost a decade now (one third of my life!). after a lap across half the globe for work & travel, it felt like a change, from florence’s pace to something entirely new.
many visits to paris this past winter later.. T’s gone fwenchhh - finally making paris my second home base in eu.
hashtags #I🫀PARIS #italianbyheart #I🫀FLORENCE (still)
