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FUKUSHIMA DIARY
CHAPTER I: TSUNAMI TWO MONTHS LATER CHAPTER II: TWO DAYS ON FUKUSHIMA CHAPTER III: FUKUSHIMA 2.0 TSUNAMI TWO MONTHS LATER Two months after the tsunami that hit the north east of Japan, I left Kyoto to join a group of volounteers of Caritas Japan (link). Purpose of the trip was, mainly, to help local people,…
EL VUELO DEL PAÑUELO
Copiapò is a small town in the middle of the arid Atacama desert, on the northern side of Chile. It lays in a valley surrounded by hills made of just sand and stones. Stepping out of the airplane door a lunar landscape opens before one’s eyes. (read more after the pictures.) The economy…
AMERICAMURA
Americamura (that translates in “american village”) is a small district of Osaka, connected to the large shopping and entertainment area of Shinsaibashi.Americamura, or most comonly Amemura, is the place for cheap,casual or alternative fashion. It is also a good place for cheap junk food. It is a good place to spend a day walking through…
KAMAGASAKI
If you get the subway at Shinsaibashi, in few stops you reach Dōbutsuen-mae station. When you get out, Osaka’s landscape has completely changed.No more trendy young people doing “bura-bura” (hanging out), Shinsaibashi’s and Dōtonbori’s big billboards are gone, department stores turned suddenly into small old fashioned shops.Walk a few hundreds meter south and you are…
JORDAN 2004
In 2004 I had the chance to be guest in one of the first Centre for Dsabled Children in the Middle East.“Our Lady of Peace” is in the south area of Amman, Jordan. It has been realised thanks to Latin Vicariate and strongly sponsored by the Queen of Jordan.Italian ANTEAS, an association connected to the…
NIGHT LIGHTS OF NISHINARI
A short film about Nishinari, the area of Osaka’s homless.